PhD Candidate with 5 Years of University Teaching Experience

Lana L.

Hello! I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at Texas Tech University, specializing in research methods and quantitative analysis. I have maintained a 4.0 GPA and have more than five years of university teaching experience as a teaching assistant and instructor. I regularly use statistics, R, and Stata in my doctoral research and peer-reviewed publications, so I can help students understand both statistical concepts and their real-world applications.

I tutor introductory and intermediate statistics and probability, including descriptive statistics, probability distributions, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, t-tests, chi-square tests, ANOVA, correlation, and linear and logistic regression. I can also assist with more advanced research methods, such as survey analysis, panel data, event-history analysis, structural equation modeling, and quantitative research design. In R and Stata, I can help students import and clean data, write and troubleshoot code, create variables and graphs, run statistical models, and correctly interpret their results.

Statistics can feel overwhelming when it is presented as a collection of formulas and commands. My approach is to explain why a method works, when it should be used, and what the results actually mean. I break complicated problems into manageable steps and adapt each lesson to the student’s course, assignment, and level of experience. My goal is not simply to help students finish one problem, but to give them the understanding and confidence to solve similar problems independently.