Methods and Data Core Services
People - Staff
Cori Mar, Ph.D. Director, Statistics Core |
Cori Mar has a PhD in clinical psychology from The Ohio State University. She is experienced in all stages of the research process, from developing and writing proposals to publication of results. Cori particularly enjoys R programming, creating visual displays of data, and teaching classes on specific statistical issues. She aspires to become proficient in the analysis of social networks. Cori is also happy to discuss Buddhist philosophy and ice hockey. |
Matt Dunbar, Ph.D. GIS Specialist |
Matt Dunbar has a PhD in Geography from the University of Kansas. He provides support and training in research projects involving spatial data. He has seven years of GIS project experience spanning the range from data acquisition, to modeling and analysis, as well as web and hard-copy presentation. Matt has specific research experience in handheld GIS systems, time-series or change analysis, geographic visualization, remote sensing, open source web mapping, and population distribution modeling and analysis. |
Anita Rocha, M.S. Statistical Programmer & Data Manager |
Anita Rocha is a certified SAS programmer and has a Masters degree in Statistics from UC Davis. Anita is a Southern California native and knows how fortunate she is to live in the regional home of the Duwamish, Suquamish, and other Salish peoples. Anita plays an active role in her community as a co-counselor and environmental activist. She enjoys computer programming so much that had she not studied statistics, she would likely
have landed a career as a software developer. She delights in creating super-efficient and elegant macros
as a programmer, and she thrives on making meaning from the quantitative chaos as a statistician. Anita
gets to scratch both itches as a statistical programmer. Her strengths: software packages SAS, SUDAAN,
STATA plus statistical consulting, data management, presentations, and developing solutions to all kinds of
odd little data issues. Her weaknesses: all things chocolate and really good movies. |
Jane Shofer Biostatistician |
Jane Shofer received a MS degree in biostatistics from the University of Washington in 1985. Since then she has been a practicing statistician in the University of Washington community. She currently divides her time between the CSDE, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the UW and the Center for Excellence in Limb Loss Prevention and Prosthetic Engineering in the VA Puget Sound Health Care System. At the CSDE she is works closely with the Biodemography Lab investigators in the analysis of biomarker data. Jane is an avid R fan, and has some proficiency in STATA. She enjoys carrying out a range of statistical analyses from basic descriptive/graphical analyses to multi-level modeling and survival analysis, and loves to explore new statistical techniques and improve/refresh her understanding of the basics. To balance all these left-brained activities, Jane is also a licensed acupuncturist in Washington State and has training in Acutonics and Craniosacral Therapy. She has worked as a volunteer complementary therapist at AIDS outpatient facilities in Seattle, and currently, in Vancouver, BC, where she now lives. She is best reached via e-mail. |