| Todd Melander’s first job was modeling customers’ propensity for purchasing the Reader’s Digest magazine. The lessons and modeling tools he learned there built a foundation for identifying and estimating the effects of variables when the response is Yes/No.
Over the years, Todd has built successful models of this type for companies such as Mazda, Visa, GE Financing, and since 2001 for Hardwick-Day.
Todd is well-versed on many statistical topics such as design of experiments, clinical trials, sampling, nonparametrics, and quality control.
He is the principal owner of Team-Stat, Inc., a statistics resources company that offers statistical consulting, permanent placement of statisticians, and the vending of statistical contractors.
Todd is currently finishing his Ph.D. in applied statistics from the University of Northern Colorado. He earned his M.S. in statistics from Iowa State.
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| Teresa Klier has 13 years of analytic consulting experience in a wide variety of industries, including higher education, consumer package goods, financial services, and pharmaceuticals. Teresa enjoys working with Hardwick~Day because “the people are friendly, always willing to go out of their way to help. And the work is enjoyable – deriving models to determine grant responsiveness.” Recently, Teresa collaborated on the Hardwick~Day NCAA Analysis, developing models to determine athlete’s responsiveness to athletic aid. She especially enjoys challenges with difficult-to-model situations.
Teresa earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University with a concentration in Industrial Organization. She received a B.A. in Economics with a minor in Mathematics from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is an adjunct professor at DePaul University’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, where she teaches Quantitative Methods.
For those of you who really know this stuff, Teresa’s modeling expertise lies in logistic and multiple regression, latent class segmentation, and factor analysis; including grant elasticity and price elasticity models, retention and acquisition models, assortment modeling (what products should be offered), and segmentation (what are students’ defining characteristics?).
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Stacie Toal supports Hardwick~Day’s financial aid optimization engagements, marketing and institutional research, and consortium projects, including in-person and webinar training sessions on the use and interpretation of research.
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) “Making the Case” website is an excellent example of the powerful role research can play in impressing upon audiences the benefits of a private education.
Stacie enjoys working with clients to develop specialized research projects related to enrollment or retention. Her recent projects include a non-matriculant survey, faculty satisfaction survey, and competitor analysis using IPEDS data. Stacie brings strong capabilities in statistics, research methods, institutional metrics, and program evaluation.
Stacie has been working with Hardwick~Day since 2004. Prior to this, she worked in higher education for over 10 years, first in enrollment management at Bradley University, then as coordinator of institutional research at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan.
Stacie earned her bachelor’s degree from Bradley and has a master’s degree in organizational communication from Michigan State University. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration - Evaluation Studies at the University of Minnesota.
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