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Statistics.com offers the services of the following distinguished experts. Please review their areas of expertise and then contact whichever one is most appropriate for your work to discuss your project and payment arrangements. Typically, after a brief review, a consultant can get a very general idea of the scope of work and may propose an initial retainer to cover several hours.
Bryan Manly
Dr. Bryan Manly is a consultant with Western EcoSystem Technology, Inc. in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Before that, he was Chair of Statistics and Director of the Center for Applications of Statistics and Mathematics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Manly is the author of Statistics for Environmental Science and Management, Randomization, Bootstrap and Monte Carlo Methods in Biology, The Statistics of Natural Selection, Multivariate Statistical Methods, Resource Selection by Animals, a number of other books, and over 150 articles in refereed journals.
Dr. Manly's areas of expertise include environmental, biological, and ecological statistics. His hourly rate is $130 and you can provide information for his review here. We will forward it to Dr. Manly. If the project looks feasible, you will be asked to make payments here.
James Rutledge
Jim Rutledge, Ph.D., is currently the President of Data Vision, a company that performs statistical consulting and training. Dr. Rutledge has over fifteen years of teaching and consulting experience. He specializes in teaching powerful statistical tools to non-statisticians; he has instructed over 1000 scientists, engineers, managers, and college students. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor at the United States Air Force Academy and has extensive research and consulting experience in healthcare issues. Dr. Rutledge was recently invited by the National Academy of Sciences to give a presentation on Design of Experiments to Biomedical Engineering Materials and Applications members. Dr. Rutledge earned a B.A. and M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Dr. Rutledge is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer and served as President of the Colorado-Wyoming Chapter of the American Statistical Association.
Dr. Rutledge's areas of expertise include industrial, engineering, quality and health management statistics. His hourly rate is $200 and you can provide information for his review here. We will forward it to Dr. Rutledge. If the project looks feasilbe, you will be asked to make payments here.
Tom Ryan
Dr. Tom Ryan has in recent years served as a Guest Researcher at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and was a major contributor to the popular NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods. He presently consults with companies in the Atlanta area, where he resides, and elsewhere. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Society for Quality, and is also a Fellow (member) of the Royal Statistical Society.
He is the author of Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement (2nd ed.), Modern Regression Methods (2nd ed.), Modern Experimental Design (2007), and Modern Engineering Statistics (2007), all single-authored books and all from Wiley, in addition to many research papers published in leading statistics journals. The titles of these books reflect his areas of expertise, in addition to general statistical methodology. His hourly rate is $125 and you can provide information for his review here. We will forward it to Dr. Ryan. If the project looks feasible, you will be asked to make payments here.