Brittany Alexander has successfully defended her dissertation and will soon be awarded her doctorate from the Texas A&M University Department of Statistics. During her graduate studies, she worked with the Bush School’s Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy, applying her advanced statistical methods to multiple projects and presenting the results at academic conferences.
Ms. Alexander’s paper, “A Bayesian Model for Inference on Multiple Panel Public Opinion Surveys,” co-authored with ISTPP Director Dr. Arnold Vedlitz, won the James W. Prothro Student Paper Competition at the Southern Association for Public Opinion Research Conference last October. The paper used advanced methodological techniques to merge multiple surveys into an analysis of public support for specific policies to prevent terrorism. Ms. Alexander is now using her technical and problem-solving statistical skills as Associate Statistician in her work at Ipsos, a prestigious global market research and public opinion polling specialist.
