ABOUT US - Associates
Meet Our Associates
Jean Opsomer, Ph.D.
Senior Statistician
Jean is a Professor in Statistics at Colorado State University whose main research interests are in survey design and sampling-based inference.
He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and an MBA from University of Chicago and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
Jean has been with Data Point Research since 1996.
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David Andresen, Ph.D.
Senior Analyst
David earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota and completed his post-doctoral work at Stanford.
David is brings keen data analytical skills to DPR and is an excellent writer.
David has been with Data Point Research since 1997.
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Christopher C. Morphew, Ph.D.
Senior Analyst
Chris received his Masters from Harvard and Ph.D. from Stanford. His research interests include higher education and policy.
He also teaches masters and doctoral students interested in careers in higher education organizations at the University of Iowa.
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César E. Mendoza, M.S.
Systems Analyst/Web Programmer
César obtained his degree in electronic engineering from Simón Bolívar University, Venezuela, then his M.S. in computer engineering from Iowa State University.
César has personally programmed all Data Point Research web studies. He is primarily responsible for the web questionnaires and the flow of electronic data.
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Becky Coppoc, B.A.
Project Manager
Becky is bright, efficient, and organized. She keeps the office flowing. She is a wonderful liaison for the interviewing staff, and she personally edits every Data Point Research report.
Some of our projects require the abstraction of key variables from large data sets. This can be a difficult, precise task which requires super-human perseverance.
Thankfully, we have Becky to look up and detangle critical data from large files.
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Kevin Dodd, Ph.D.
Analyst
Kevin earned his Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University. He is a skilled statistician and analyst and familiar with all major statistical software packages like SPSS, SAS, C-SIDE, and PCCARP.
Kevin has been making sense out of complex data sets for Data Point Research since 1997.
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Interviewing Staff
Data Point Research hires, trains, and monitors experienced telephone and in-person interviewers. Most of our interviewers have several years of experience working on a variety of telephone and in-person studies.
Our interviewers tend to be mature individuals who pay close attention to detail, record information exactly, and remain neutral to the topic area being investigated.
Many of our evening interviewers have day jobs as librarians, teachers, and bookkeepers.