Emilie Rausch

Foundational Sciences Faculty - Multidisciplined with Biostatistics Assistant Professor, Biostatistics

Campus IllinoisCOM
DepartmentMedical Education
InstitutionThe Chicago School

Biography

I completed my doctorate in Quantitative Psychology at the University of Missouri in 2016, focusing on cluster analytic methods. Prior to my arrival at IllinoisCOM, I worked as a Data Scientist and a graduate instructor, teaching introductory statistics, psychometrics, and research methods. At IllinoisCOM, I am an instructor for Population and Evidence-Based Medicine and Introduction to Research Methods I and II. In addition, I serve as a Biostatistician for COM faculty and student research projects.

I am available to mentor students in research, particularly for methodological, sociological/epidemiological, and/or survey-based research projects. I am also available to serve as a faculty advisor for student activities or clubs.

Education History

Degree	Institution	Year
PhD	University of Missouri, Columbia, MO	2016
MA, Statistics	University of Missouri, Columbia, MO	2014
MA, Psychology	University of Missouri, Columbia, MO	2013
BA, Psychology	University of Missouri, Columbia, MO	2010

Publications

Journal
RJ Cramer, SM Johnson, J McLaughlin, EM Rausch, MA Conroy (2013). Suicide risk assessment training for psychology doctoral programs: Core competencies and a framework for training.. Training and education in professional psychology, 7 (1), 1-11.
EM Shireman, D Steinley, K Sher (2015). Sex differences in the latent class structure of alcohol use disorder: Does (dis) aggregation of indicators matter?. Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology, 23 (4), 291.
EM Shireman, D Steinley, MJ Brusco (2016). Local optima in mixture modeling. Multivariate behavioral research, 51 (4), 466-481.
MJ Brusco, E Shireman, D Steinley (2017). A comparison of latent class, K-means, and K-median methods for clustering dichotomous data.. Behavior research methods, 49 (1), 563.
E Shireman, D Steinley, MJ Brusco (2017). Examining the effect of initialization strategies on the performance of Gaussian mixture modeling. Behavior research methods, 49 (1), 282-293.
MJ Brusco, E Shireman, D Steinley, S Brudvig, JD Cradit (2017). Gaussian model‐based partitioning using iterated local search. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 70 (1), 1-24.
MJ Brusco, E Shireman, D Steinley (2017). A comparison of latent class, K-means, and K-median methods for clustering dichotomous data.. Psychological methods, 22 (3), 563.
JE Stevens, E Shireman, D Steinley, TM Piasecki, D Vinson, KJ Sher (2020). Item responses in quantity–frequency questionnaires: implications for data generalizability. Assessment, 27 (5), 1029-1044.

Professional Skills

statistics, data analysis, cluster analysis, psychometrics, Alcohol Use Disorder