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Ellen holds a master's degree in Applied Statistics from The Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor's degree in Economics from Bates College. She worked as a consultant in the Penn State Statistical Consulting Center, advising clients on study design and analysis. At Penn State, she also worked in the Department of Biobehavioral Health, performing analyses and working on journal articles on epidemiologic studies of minorities and substance use behavior. She is experienced in a variety of statistical software packages, including SAS, Stata, SPSS and Minitab. She has extensive experience analyzing survey data, using techniques such as logistic regression, significance testing, and factor analysis. Prior to returning to school for her master's degree, Ellen was a data manager, working on clinical trials studying pediatric heart disease at the New England Research Institute in Cambridge, MA. | 