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Faculty & Staff
First Name
Robert
Last Name
Pearson
Email
pearsoro@gvsu.edu
Title
Associate Professor
Schedule
Office Hours and Schedule
Office
MAK C-2-509
Office Phone
616-331-2057
Research Interests
Factor Analysis, multivariate statistics, statistics education
About
From 2013 to 2015 I was a Senior Data Scientist at Datalogix which became part of Oracle Data Cloud. In that position I worked in an R&D role to develop and prototype analytical tools to improve their best-in-class capabilities in measuring the offline sales impact of online advertising. My work there would very much fit the term Big Data, as I typically worked with numerous tables of millions to billions of rows stored both locally and on Amazon Web Services.
Outside of work, somethings I enjoy (or enjoyed prior to fatherhood) include hiking, tennis, snowboarding, traveling, learning, playing bad golf, J.R.R. Tolkien, and rock climbing. I have a 5 year old Great Pyrenees named Greta. I am originally from Minnesota and did my B.S. at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. I have lived in Seoul and have traveled through Europe with my bicycle.
Degrees
- PhD: University of Northern Colorado, 2008
- MS: University of Northern Colorado, 2002
- BS: University of Minnesota-Duluth, 2000
Publications
My dissertation was entitled “Recommended Sample Size for Conducting Exploratory Factor Analysis on Dichotomous Data.”
Research
Factor analysis and multivariate statistics in general, statistical computing with emphasis on SAS, statistics education, interdisciplinary colloboration
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