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— College of Public Health — Departments — Biostatistics — Faculty & Staff — Megan Tesar, PhD, MS

Megan Tesar, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics

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Megan Tesar, PhD, MS is currently an assistant professor for the Department of Biostatistics. Before that, she served as an adjunct professor for the department.

Education

2011, Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,

2008, M.S. in Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2006, B.S. in Mathematics, Doane University, Crete NE

Research Interests

Spatial statistics and statistics education in the health sciences

Selected Publications

Tesar: A Comparison of Spatial Predication Techniques Using Both Hard and Soft Data, PhD diss., Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 2011.
Marx, D.D., Marx Scheuerell, A.C., Liedtke Tesar, M. (2013) Is a Major League Hitter Hot or Cold? The Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2013.