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<h1>Howard Live Oak</h1>
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Will Beasley, President</h2>
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<p>I started Howard Live Oak in 2003 to facilitate
my interests in statistical analysis and research
methodology. After graduating Davidson College in 2000
with a Psychology major and a Neuroscience concentration, I became increasingly attracted to
research; meanwhile I was involved in several studies with interesting software development
challenges. We have had continuous funding and contracts
since our company was founded, and almost all have involved a
blend of statistics and software.</p>
<p>I attended the <a href="http://www.ou.edu/cas/psychology/Research/Quantitative.html">
Quantitative Psychology</a> graduate program at the University of
Oklahoma, Norman (2003-2010) and subsequently accepted an
<a href="http://find.ouhsc.edu/Faculty.aspx?FacultyID=1064">
assistant research faculty position</a> at the University
of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. The time
required by my faculty position depends on my
<a href="http://howardliveoak.com">Howard Live Oak</a>
projects and varies between .5 and .8 full-time
employment (I am fortunate to have standing offers from
two research studies to hire me for as many hours as I
can give them). I prefer to limit my outside projects
because they expose new challenges, and I give extraordinary attention to each one. If you’d like more
background, feel free to ask.</p>
<p>I embrace both Bayesian and Frequentist statistics –a
great deal of past work focused on
Bayesian methods to estimate models in clinical
research, environmental microbiology, medical decision making, cognitive psychology,
and epidemic transmission of social activities. I’ve written several articles and chapters on simulation methods (MCMCs and bootstrapping).
Perhaps my biggest strength is exploratory and graphical data analysis. I
have compiled a collection of my graphs to use when I teach graphing workshops
that I'll be happy to distribute by email upon request.</p>
<p>My programming abilities are as strong as most professional software developers. I’ve developed: (a) four clinical databases with a SQL Server
backend and C# middle and client tiers, (b) massive parallel statistical simulations, (c) medical decision making training aids, and (d) at least a
dozen systems that manipulate and merge multiple data sources to produce real-time graphics and reporting. For these types of projects, I use
several agile and TDD approaches. Regarding Linux, I use OU’s supercomputer (which runs Red Hat) for spatial analyses.</p>
<p>My preferred statistical tool is
<a href="http://cran.r-project.org/">R</a>, and I have used it
extensively since 2005 (I have also taught courses and
workshops with SAS and SPSS). I’ve developed
one R package (<a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/NlsyLinks/">NlsyLinks</a>) and have taught many programming
and graphing workshops in R. The appeal of literate programming and reproducible research prompted me to manage my R projects in
<a href="https://github.com/wibeasley">GitHub</a> and
<a href="https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/nlsylinks/">R-Forge</a> and to use
<a href="http://yihui.name/knitr/">knitr</a>/<a href="http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~leisch/Sweave/">Sweave</a>/
<a href="http://www.latex-project.org/">LaTeX</a> for reports. R’s reporting ecosystem has allowed me to communicate better
with a new audience (specifically, policy makers and politicians in the past two years),
who have relatively limited statistical training.</p>
<p>A list of my publications can be found at
<a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ffsJTC0AAAAJ&hl=en">
Google Scholar</a>. Additional information
is available on
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Beasley2/">
LinkedIn</a> and
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Beasley2/">
ResearchGate</a>.</p>
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