Jamie DeCoster

Jamie DeCoster has over 25 years of experience working as a statistician and methodologist. He has been an author on over 100 peer-reviewed research articles, and his work has been cited over 25,000 times. He regularly publishes articles in high-impact journals, including first-author publications in Personality and Social Psychology Review (IF = 7.571), Psychological Methods (IF = 7.338), and American Psychologist (IF = 6.681). He has been a co-investigator on grants from the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and several private foundations. DeCoster has consulted and collaborated with researchers from many different fields, providing him with a broad range of statistical and methodological experiences. DeCoster has actively worked as a statistical consultant since 1996. In 1998 he started his own Internet statistical consulting service at http://www.stat-help.com. Dr. DeCoster’s personal research focuses on discovering ways to make scientific research practices more accurate, flexible, and efficient.

Ph.D., Purdue University, 1999
M.S., Purdue University, 1996
B.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1989

Curriculum Vitae

• Statistics 
• Methodology 
• Research Practices 
• Practical use of AI 
• Consulting