Tutor

Passionate about making stats simple

Offering individual/group tutoring at AP/college/graduate level in:

  • Statistics
    • Fundamentals
    • Hypothesis Testing
    • Analysis & Visualization
    • Exploring Data Sets
    • Prediction & Inference
    • R, SAS, SPSS, Excel, etc.
  • Research Methods
    • Experimental Design
    • Research Proposals
    • Synthesizing Results
  • Data Science
    • Downloading & Cleaning Data
    • Programming (in R)
  • Scientific Writing
  • Neuroscience / Psychology / Biology

I’d be happy to help you with:

  • Homework & Exam-Prep
  • Organizing & Proof-Reading Papers, Projects, Presentations
  • Building Software / Algorithms
  • Study Skills
    • Healthy Habits
    • Procrastination / Overwhelm
    • Motivation, Interest, Career Trajectory

My Bio:

Hi, I’m Michael! I earned my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from UT Dallas in 2018, specializing in the development of new statistical methods. During my 7 years in the PhD program, I taught introductory and advanced (multivariate) statistics, programming in R, experimental research design, and received extensive training in scientific writing and project management. I created homework assignments, quizzes, and practice exams, led biweekly review sessions for 1-15 students, and helped students design and carry out research projects.

Since completing my doctorate, I’ve been working as a freelance tutor and consultant, continuing my learning independently in order to 1) help students with a broader range of statistical methods, and 2) adapt my academic skills for application in business–advising and/or conducting business analytics for data-driven decision making.

I love tutoring statistics because it’s often so painful to learn,
and it doesn’t have to be!

Around my 4th year of teaching statistics, I began to recognize the patterns underneath the equations and processes I had been teaching and learning. It turns out, there are really just a few fundamental ideas that are slightly adapted to generate the whole field of statistics. And these ideas can be explained using simple visuals. I wondered, why didn’t any of my teachers just explain it this way?!?

So that’s what makes me unique as a tutor–I suffered through learning this stuff, and now I love explaining it in a way that just clicks!!

Once you grasp the big picture, all of the various details and equations become intuitive; After all, the equations are just different ways of pointing to the same few basic patterns.

Maybe you think this doesn’t apply to you? You’re too confused?
Please read my reviews, at https://www.wyzant.com/Tutors/MichaelK

Please contact me if you have any questions, want to schedule a session together, or just want to connect and say Hi!