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Northwestern undergrad + NYU PhD: Statistics, SPSS, R, and research
Lindsay R.

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I am interested in helping you develop your statistics and quantitative methods / research understanding, including with SPSS or R / RStudio (and sometimes Excel). I can also help you with your academic or research writing skills or editing, including learning how to present and write up statistics results.

I tutor to help people understand course material, but I also particularly specialize in helping people who need assistance working through the analysis and writing of independent...

I am interested in helping you develop your statistics and quantitative methods / research understanding, including with SPSS or R / RStudio (and sometimes Excel). I can also help you with your academic or research writing skills or editing, including learning how to present and write up statistics results.

I tutor to help people understand course material, but I also particularly specialize in helping people who need assistance working through the analysis and writing of independent research projects, including helping graduate students working on a thesis or dissertation or more broadly dissertation coaching and advising.

Descriptive and inferential statistics at Advanced placement (AP), undergraduate, and graduate levels: central tendencies and variability, standard deviation and variance, skew, histograms, normal distribution, sampling, hypothesis testing, z scores, probabilities, t-tests, chi-squared tests, ANOVA (ANCOVA, MANOVA, repeated measures ANOVA), regression (including linear regression, multiple regression, polynomial regression, logistic regression), mediation, moderation aka interactions, Hayes Process Macro, reliability, validity, power analyses (including G*Power), non-parametric tests, factor analysis, and higher level statistical models as well. Just ask!

I received my PhD in social psychology with a quantitative methods (aka statistics) concentration from New York University. I graduated magna cum laude and with department honors in psychology from Northwestern University. At NYU I was involved in teaching undergraduate and graduate students, and in 2014 I received the inaugural graduate student teaching award for excellence in student teaching in psychology at NYU. I have also have been actively involved in statistics and writing tutoring online for 7+ years. I enjoy teaching, and am interested in helping people through tutoring rather than a more traditional classroom role because it gives me time and location flexibility: ** Online tutoring only! **

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Education

Northwestern University
Psychology
New York University
Masters
New York University
PhD

Policies

  • Hourly Rate: $65
  • Rate details: Rate may be +5-20% for graduate level tutoring, research project coaching, or advanced R depending on the details
  • Lesson cancellation: 20 hours notice required

  • Background check passed on 1/16/2020

  • Your first lesson is backed by our Good Fit Guarantee

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Approved Subjects

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel

I use Excel primarily in aiding with data management, for data analysis, for creating tables and graphs, and as a supplement to learning statistics. I use formulas and the data analysis tool and solver in Excel, but I do not use Excel for Macros or Pivot tables, so I will advise you to look elsewhere for those needs.
Psychology

Psychology

I have a PhD in social psychology, and in my role as a graduate student I served as a teaching assistant for social psychology (three times) and introduction to psychology (three times). I also have a strong academic and working background in clinical and abnormal psychology and experience teaching developmental psychology, but am less specialized in these area.
R

R

There are many different uses for R / RStudio and many different styles of approaches to it (no one tutor has used all of the thousands of packages!) - so if you want tutoring help in R just let me know a bit about your course in terms of the statistics topics and they way they use R, or attach some examples so I can assess if I'm a good fit for you (i.e., Does your course focus on any particular packages aka library() such as tidyverse, dplyr, ggplot2 or does your course only use base R? Do you work from some general structure of provided codes or you need to create your own? What aspects are you struggling with? What kind of course is this, and what kind of tests/analyses are you running?)
SPSS

SPSS

I have used SPSS for over 15 years. I have taught SPSS for statistics to undergraduate, Master's, and doctoral students in both classroom and online tutoring settings - from complete beginnings to those undertaking higher level analyses. In addition to helping students learn course material, I have tutored students through their own data analyses (everything from undergrads with learning projects to graduate students working on their dissertations), I have assisted colleagues with its use, I have used it in market research analyst job, and I have used it for independent consulting projects. Highly experienced with syntax as well, if needed.
Statistics

Statistics

I particularly specialize in helping students either in (1) college level statistics (undergraduate and advanced AP students) or applied statistics courses and (2) graduate students who have to learn to use statistics in social science fields, nursing and medicine, business, education, and public policy. The quantitative minor with my PhD included extensive statistics coursework, as well as teaching Master's and doctoral students to understand and perform advanced regression analyses. In addition to tutoring for undergraduate and graduate statistics courses, I have assisted undergraduates in a research lab course to understand how analyze their own data, and I have worked with nearly a hundred graduate students needing help to understand their own data analyses. Growing up, I was generally very strong in math, but statistics was the only math-oriented subjects that at first did not quite click for me, so I feel I am uniquely positioned to understand students' struggles with it and help them get to the ah-ha moments. I have taught sampling and hypothesis testing, z scores, t tests, chi square, ANOVAs, correlations, regressions, factor analysis, reliability, and much more. Statistics can be a pretty broad term, I will not pretend to know the entire field as there can be some specialized niches, but if you are asking for help something that is not within my area of expertise I will advise you to look elsewhere - so feel free to ask!
Writing

Writing

I have a strong background in research writing, including helping students figure out how to report their quantitative/statistics results, how to tie those back into their broader themes, how to make logical structure and flow to their arguments, and how to apply APA style. I have been the primary author on three peer reviewed research articles and co-authored two book chapters, and looking back a bit further I won the award for best undergraduate psychology paper at my undergraduate institution (Northwestern University). I have worked with hundreds of undergraduates to help them refine research critiques, proposals, and reports. I have worked with nearly a hundred graduate students to help them successfully improve their theses and dissertations. I have assisted colleagues with the structure, organization, and arguments in their own research papers.
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Excellent Stats Tutor

There are times when you meet a really good tutor and it makes it really hard to write a review because others will read the review and she will be so overbooked that you won't be able to get session when you need it. Lindsay is one of those tutors. If people found out how good she is at teaching stats, she will be booked all the time. She can take what textbooks make really complicated and teach it in a way that is simple without being simplistic. She really deserves more than 5 stars but that is the most I can assign in this review.

Elijah, 3 lessons with Lindsay

Brilliant in statistics and ideas with rationale why to run certain statistics for data analysis

Lindsay explained clearly and with the white board visually the rationale for the statistics, tests to run for my study. Was extremely efficient and knowledgeable with clarity.

Dawn, 9 lessons with Lindsay

Knowledgeable and patient

Ms. Lindsay is an expert in the subjects. She can communicate difficult terms in layman's language, which was a great asset to me. Videos after the sessions are beneficial.

Anju, 4 lessons with Lindsay

Great Instruction

She was wonderful and helped me gain a better understanding of SPSS. I truly appreciate her approach to instruction! I will reach out to her again for further tutoring. Thank you!

Alexis, 3 lessons with Lindsay

Very knowledgeable

Linear regression, mediation, moderation, internal & external validity. She has expertise in statistics and using the statistical tool (SPSS). I wished to have her as a tutor months ago.

Abdoulaye, 2 lessons with Lindsay

Excellent Tutor in Statistics

Lindsay was my weekly tutor for a graduate course in Regression Analysis. She was incredibly knowledgeable and helpful in every session. She knew the complex math behind statistical calculations and had a deep understanding of how to explain each concept. She also helped me with correctly phrasing my responses to statistical questions in a subject where wording is crucially important. I left every lesson impressed with her knowledge and grateful for her assistance.

Travis, 15 lessons with Lindsay

Excellent tutor and teacher. Worth every penny.

She helped me follow up on our prior meeting, continuing to work through my analysis of the financial education data set. She provided sound reasoning on why the data combine across the 5 individual questions could be combined to get scores on 0-5 scale of how many they got correct or how many they actively answered incorrect or how many they said they don't know, and then showing me how to do it. She helped me run t-tests and interpreted the outcomes for the new scenarios. She also tried to explain what a chi square value (or a t or really any test statistic value) conceptually means and how it is compared to a theoretical distribution when the null is true and gets us a p value aka a probability of getting something that extreme or even more extreme. She is an Extremely good tutor with a superior knowledge of Statistics and using SPSS to coax out the best results. Highly recommended. [She also snuck in Cohen’s d on effect size, so now I have a basic understanding of something I’d never heard of before the session.]

Jude, 2 lessons with Lindsay

Phenomenal and patient teacher!

Lindsay is a phenomenal and patient teacher. She helped me work systematically through several problems I was having with my code in R and also provided feedback on the statistical philosophy I had employed in designing my analysis. She was knowledgeable, explained everything clearly, and was able to help me efficiently solve my issues which helping me learn more to be a better user of R in the future. Highly recommend her to anyone for all things R and statistics!

Ray, 1 lesson with Lindsay

Efficient and communicative

Lindsay recognized problems with my R code quickly and did troubleshooting in real time to come up with solutions. She was very good at explaining the problems with the code and providing answers to questions.

Jeff, 5 lessons with Lindsay

Insightful, will use again

Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .

Avery, 2 lessons with Lindsay
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