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Megha Joshi

Meta-Analysis Data Scientist

Analyst Institute

Me

Interests

  • Causal inference
  • Meta-analysis
  • Missing data
  • Machine learning
  • Robust variance-covariance matrices

Education

  • PhD in Quantitative Methods, 2021

    The University of Texas at Austin

  • BA in Art History and Psychology, 2014

    Bryn Mawr College

Recent Posts

ERCOT Price Gouging

Welcome to the Deregulated State of Texas! During the crisis brought on by government failure and capitalism last week in Texas that …
Feb 23, 2021 2 min read R

Unemployment Claims COVID-19

In this post I am visualizing and analyzing the unprecedented increase in the number of unemployment claims filed in the US after the …
Jun 29, 2020 4 min read R

Propensity Score Analysis with Multiply Imputed Data

In this post, I walk through steps of running propensity score analysis when there is missingness in the covariate data. Particularly, …
Jun 23, 2020 11 min read R

Missing Data in Propensity Score Analysis

Theories behind propensity score analysis assume that the covariates are fully observed (Rosenbaum & Rubin, 1983, 1984). However, …
Apr 16, 2020 11 min read R

Nepal Earthquake

I wanted to analyze the data from the April 2015 Nepal earthquake that resulted in around 10,000 deaths. I am using a dataset that I …
Nov 20, 2019 3 min read R
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Projects

simhelpers

Here is the website for the package. Monte Carlo simulations are computer experiments designed to study the performance of statistical …

TCMC

Technical papers detailing the results of analysis: the first-year cohort analysis and the-second year cohort analysis. Texas House …

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Recent Publications

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Direct Ties to a Faculty Mentor Related to Positive Outcomes for Undergraduate Researchers

Direct ties to faculty related to better outcomes for undergraduate life-science researchers.
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The Performance of Multivariate Methods for Two-Group Comparisons with Small Samples and Incomplete Data

Missing data treatment using multivariate methods for two-group comparisons and small sample sizes.
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