Thesis and Dissertation Advisors -
Psychology Research Methods

TOM GRANOFF

Scope: multivariate statistics, behavioral sciences, data processing, marketing research, forensic psychology, research design, SPSS, survey research, medical research, web-based surveys, quantitative methods, focus groups, interviewing techniques, qualitative methods, correlational analysis, research methodologist, ANOVA, MANOVA, logistic regression, multiple regression, discriminant function analysis, factor analysis, Method's Chapter editing, Final Oral examination preparation.

TOM GRANOFF, Ph.D., has spent almost 30 years providing research methodological and data analysis support in academic settings using SPSS. Tom typically works on numerous scholarly projects each year. Tom assists students who are obtaining advanced degrees in psychology, counseling, education, public health, leadership, business, marketing, sociology, management, and nursing. He also worked for many years in marketing research and data processing positions in the health care industry. A popular instructor, Dr. Granoff teaches graduate-level research methods and statistics courses for Loyola Marymount University, Pepperdine University, and California State University, Long Beach, all in Los Angeles. He prides himself in being able to explain most multivariate statistical tests in simple English without using complex mathematical formulas. Tom educates his clients so that they car take full responsibility for the contents of their study, and assists them in preparing for their oral defense.  His formal education includes a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology plus Master's degrees in Theology and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
For research proposals (Methods Chapter), Tom provides technical assistance in the following ways: helping set up the research design, reviewing surveys, assistance in selecting appropriate statistical tests, helping determine needed sample sizes (power analyses), helping develop operational definitions; developing hypotheses/research questions; measuring constructs; and tutoring students in the understanding and usage of appropriate research and statistical terminology.  Tom often edits the Methodology Chapter to ensure that the purpose statement, research questions, the hypotheses, the data gathered, and the statistical approaches are in accord.  
For data analysis projects (Results Chapter), Tom’s provides ethical assistance that does not conflict with your university’s plagiarism and academic integrity policies.  Tom will first have a brief free consultation with the student’s thesis/dissertation advisor and gain the appropriate permission before any formal work is conducted.  After securing written permission, Tom can provide any of the following services: create suitable SPSS files, help prepare the dataset for analysis, run relevant statistical tests or teach the student how to do it themselves, provide tutoring in the interpretation of SPSS output, and provide generic examples of how SPSS output could be transformed into APA style tables and narrative.  After the student has the draft of the Results Chapter, Tom can then provide technical editing to ensure the findings are presented in a clear, accurate and compelling manner.    

JANE SCOTT

DR. JANE SCOTT received her Ph.D. in quantitative psychology with an emphasis on personality psychology from the University of California, Davis. After teaching statistics and research methods for several years at UC Davis and in Hawaii while providing statistics consulting on the side, she now provides full-time statistics consulting. She lives on the island of St. Croix in the Caribbean where she enjoys sun and surf in addition to statistics.

Jane can help you analyze your data and interpret the results using SAS, SPSS, or Minitab. She can help you understand, implement, and interpret statistical procedures such as t tests (single-sample t test, independent t test, dependent or paired t test), ANOVAs (one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, repeated measures ANOVA, MANOVA, ANCOVA), nonparametric procedures (chi-square, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis, Wilcoxon, Friedman, McNemar, Cochran, Fisher’s Exact Test) correlation, multiple regression, logistic regression, factor analysis, principal component analysis (PCA), mediation, moderation, and cox regression, among others. She can run the appropriate analyses for addressing your hypotheses, make APA-style tables or figures for presenting your results, and guide you in the appropriate presentation of your results.

Jane can also provide simple explanations or computations for such statistical concepts as variance, standard deviation, z-scores and the normal distribution, the central limit theorem, type-I and type-II errors (alpha and beta), power, effect size, R-squared or the coefficient of determination, and the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, as well as concepts from psychometrics such as reliability and validity.

Jane received her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, so she spent her undergraduate years developing her writing and communication skills, which enable her to communicate mathematical concepts clearly. She loves to help students hone their methodology chapters, formulate clear hypotheses, and clearly articulate the appropriate analyses for testing each hypothesis. An animated teacher and public speaker, Jane can also help you develop effective Power Point presentations for classes or oral defenses.