School of Applied Sciences
The University of Mississippi

Members 

Faculty Affiliates AY 2021-2022

Director: Dr. Minsoo Kang

Professor and Chair of Health, Exercise Science, and Recreation Management

Analytic Expertise: Psychometrics (validity & reliability), Rasch model, Item Response Theory, test development and validation, standard setting, item analysis, meta-analysis, research design, data mining and analytics 

Statistical/Software Package Proficiency: SAS, SPSS, Amos, Answer Tree, KH Coder, WEKA, Comprehensive Meta Analysis, Facets, WINSTEPS, GENOVA, ITEMAN, JASP

Contact: (662)915-5521, kang@olemiss.edu, 219 Turner Center

Name/Department/ContactAnalytics ExpertiseStatistical/Software Package Proficiency
David Joung
Associate Professor
NHM
Research design, survey development, intro/multivariate statisticsSPSS, Amos
Francis Boateng
Assistant Professor
LS
Multilevel analysis, hierarchical linear and non-linear analysis; regression, research design, data miningSPSS, HLM, Mplus
Heontae Kim
Data Analyst
ICN
General Linear Model, meta-analysis, data management, psychometrics (validity & reliability), Rasch modelSAS, SPSS, Comprehensive Meta-Analysis, Winsteps
Katerina Berezina
Assistant Professor
NHM
Technology adoption, research design (survey, experimental, grounded theory, Delphi, case study), 
Multivariate analysis: multiple regression, factor analysis, SEM (covariance-based, variance-based, multi-group), choice-based conjoint analysis, text mining.
SPSS, AMOS, Warp PLS
Victoria Zigmont
Assistant professor
HESRM
Study design (experimental, quasi experimental and observational studies),
survey development and implementation, epidemiology methods, descriptive analysis, regression analysis
Stata, R, SPSS, SAS
Minsoo Kang
Professor and Chair
HESRM
Psychometrics (validity & reliability), Rasch model, Item Response Theory, test development and validation, 
standard setting, item analysis, meta-analysis, research design, data mining and analytics 
SAS, SPSS, Amos, Answer Tree, KH Coder, WEKA, Comprehensive Meta Analysis, Facets, WINSTEPS, GENOVA, ITEMAN, JASP
Na Youn Lee
Assistant Professor
SW
General Linear Models, hierarchical linear modeling, structural equation modelingStata, NVivo
Yunhee Chang
Professor
NHM
Panel data analysis, multilevel models, survival analysis, instrumental variables and other techniques for causal inferenceStata
Wesley Jennings
Professor and Chair
LS
Regression, longitudinal analysis, group-based trajectory analysisSPSS, Stata
Hyejin Park
Assistant Professor
CSD
Research design (survey, experimental, group subject design), General Linear Models (GLM), Biometric technology in research (e.g., eyetracking, pupil dilation)SPSS
D’Andre Walker
Assistant Professor
LS
Survey design and implementation, Data management, Multivariate analysisStata
Saijun Zhang
Assistant Professor
SW
Survival analysis, hierarchical linear modeling, structural equation modeling, latent class analysis, meta-analysis, administrative data management & analysis, complex survey data analysisSAS, STATA, SPSS, Mplus, R
Taeyeon Oh
Assistant Professor
HESRM
Econometrics, Regression, Data Mining, Big DataR, Python, Stata, Matlab, SPSS
Toshikazu Ikuta
Associate Professor
CSD
Brain MRI data analysis, large scale analysis, digital signal processing, neural network models, machine learning, 
meta-analysis, mediation analysis
R, Python

Student Consultants AY 2021-2022

Name/Department/ContactAnalytics ExpertiseStatistical/Software Package Proficiency
Hayeon Choi
NHM
hchoi9@go.olemiss.edu
General Linear Model
Cluster Analysis
ANOVA, ANCOVA, MANOVA, EFA, CFA, SEM
SPSS
Siddhi Korgaonkar
Pharmacy Administration
skorgaon@go.olemiss.edu
Study design for retrospective and survey data
Complex survey data analyses
Survival analysis
Propensity score-based methods
Categorical data analysis
Moderation and mediation
Regression techniques
Cost data analysis
Univariate and bivariate analysis
SPSS
SAS
Savannah Kelly
Higher Education
slkelly@olemiss.edu
Research Design
Data exploration / Descriptive statistics
General Linear Models (GLM)
Multivariate Analysis
Q Methodology
Moderation and Mediation Analyses
Longitudinal Analysis
SPSS
SAS
Jennifer Toth
Pharmacy Administration
jtoth@go.olemiss.edu
General Linear Models
Applied Multivariate Analysis
Statistical Mediation and Moderation
Longitudinal Modeling
SPSS
SAS
Jangwoo Jo
NHM
jjo2@olemiss.edu
Multivariate Analysis
Multiple Regression
CFA & SEM
Mediation & Moderation
Measurement Invariance
Multi Group Analysis
PLS-SEM
ANOVA
Factorial ANOVA
Repeated Measures
ANCOVA
MANOVA
Power Analysis
Cluster Analysis
EFA
SPSS
AMOS
Mplus
SmartPLS

SAS Analytics Lab GA AY 2021-2022

Name/Department/ContactAnalytics ExpertiseStatistical/Software Package Proficiency
Kritika Gupta, M.S.
NHM
kgupta3@olemiss.edu
Regression
Mediation and Moderation
ANOVA
Factorial AN
OVA
Repeated Measures
EFA
SPSS
Jun Seob Song
HESRM
jsong6@go.olemiss.edu
Research Design
General Linear Model
Meta-Analysis
Multivariate Analysis
SPSS
JASP
STATA
Hayeon (Hailey) Choi
NHM
hchoi9@go.olemiss.edu
EFA
General Linear Models
Cluster Analysis
IPA
ANOVA
CFA
SEM
SPSS
AMOS
JASP
Olena Ciftci, M.S., CHIA
NHM
ociftci@go.olemiss.edu
Introductory and multivariate statistics
Choice-based conjoint analysis
Meta-analysis
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis
Structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM and CB-SEM)
SPSS
JASP
AMOS
SmartPLS
WarpPLS