James E. Pustejovsky
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James E. Pustejovsky

I am a statistician and associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I teach in the Educational Psychology Department and the graduate program in Quantitative Methods. My research involves developing statistical methods for problems in education, psychology, and other areas of social science research, with a focus on methods related to research synthesis and meta-analysis.

Education

  • PhD in Statistics | 2013
    Northwestern University

  • BA in Economics | 2003
    Boston College

Interests

  • Meta-analysis
  • Causal inference
  • Robust statistical methods
  • Education statistics
  • Single case experimental designs

Recent posts

Interactive display of simulation results with Observable.js

simulation
programming
Monte Carlo simulations are an essential and ubiquitous feature of my work as a statistical methodologist. With my students and collaborators, I have conducted simulations…
Jan 19, 2025
James E. Pustejovsky

A bigger simulation of bootstrap confidence interval variations

programming
Rstats
bootstrap
In my previous post, I demonstrated some new brand-new additions to the simhelpers package: utilities for calculating bootstrap confidence intervals. That post walked…
Jan 18, 2025
James E. Pustejovsky

Bootstrap confidence interval variations

programming
Rstats
bootstrap
I recently added some new utilities for calculating bootstrap confidence intervals to the simhelpers package. The functions are designed to make it a bit more convenient to…
Jan 15, 2025
James E. Pustejovsky

A quirk of nlme::varIdent

Rstats
programming
hierarchical models
nlme

Wherein I document how to control the reference level in models that use nlme::varIdent() for specifying a variance structure.

Dec 28, 2024
James E. Pustejovsky

Beta-density selection models for meta-analysis

effect size
distribution theory
selective reporting
I still have meta-analytic selection models on the brain. As part of an IES-funded project with colleagues from the American Institutes for Research, I’ve been working on…
Nov 8, 2024
James E. Pustejovsky
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