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About Me

I am a rising senior at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. I will graduate in the Spring of 2013 with a BS in Mathematics (with a focus in Statistics) as well as a minor in Computational Science. I hope to eventually to to Graduate School for either Statistics or Meteorology.

Research Goals

-Become fluent in MatLab programming.

-Learn Linear Regression.

-Be able to implement these: Take theory and apply it to practice.

-Program MatLab to run linear regression and determine whether or not the coefficient values are significant.

-Test this code with a simulation: use simulated data to make sure the code is working as I expect it to.

-Integrate my work with Abby's work: use the images Abby generates and in each voxel do regression.

-Learn how to make useful displays to communicate what is being done.

-Be able to save data in a file and load it back in, and be able to load in the data that Abby has saved.

-Find the mead and standard deviation in every voxel. Turn this into an image for display.

-Learn how to use the Likelihood Ratio Test to derive the t-statistic.

-Once a number for the degree of activation in each voxel is obtained, color code this with a color map for different degrees of activation.

END GOAL: Get actual data and run the above analyses on it.

Research Log

Week One: 5/28-6/1

May 28th

-Memorial Day!

-Traveled to Marquette University

May 29th

-Orientation Day!

-Filled out necessary paperwork, including work forms and pre-survey

-Met fellow REU students and mentors.

-Received tours of both the campus and the surrounding area

May 30th

-Learned how to use Marquette's library resources

-Met with advisory, Dr. Rowe, to learn the overview and general outcomes of the research project.

-Began reading and taking notes on Linear Models in Statistics by Alvin C. Rencher

May 31st

-Continued reading and taking notes on Linear Models in Statistics by Alvin C. Rencher

-Attended talk by Dr. Factor, "Good Research Practices"

-Began working with Matlab and learning how to use it

June 1st

-Traveled home to attend sister's graduation.

-Continued reading and taking notes on Linear Models in Statistics by Alvin C. Rencher

Week Two: 6/4-6/8

June 4th

-Continued reading and taking notes on Linear Models in Statistics by Alvin C. Rencher

-Learned about the underlying math principles behind Linear Regression

June 5th

-Continued reading and taking notes on Linear Models in Statistics by Alvin C. Rencher

June 6th

-Worked in MatLab to figure out how to use time series data as well as run various statistical procedures.

-Set up meeting with Dr. Rowe.

-Continued reading and taking notes on Linear Models in Statistics by Alvin C. Rencher

June 7th

-Working lunch with other REU students.

-Met with Dr. Rowe to discuss current progress, as well as future goals. Worked out problems that had arisen and obtained books to use at reference for MatLab.

-Continued reading and taking notes on Linear Models in Statistics by Alvin C. Rencher.

June 8th

-Continued reading and taking notes on Linear Models in Statistics by Alvin C. Rencher

Week Three: 6/11-6/15

June 11th

-Continued reading and taking notes on Linear Models in Statistics by Alvin C. Rencher

-Began reading and taking notes on "MATLAB: The Language of Technical Computing: Getting Started With MATLAB"

June 12th

-Continued reading and taking notes on "MATLAB: The Language of Technical Computing: Getting Started With MATLAB"

-Worked on problems in MATLAB

-Attended talk by Dr. Brylow, "Good Presentations, Good Technical Writing, and the Difference Between the Two"

June 13th

-Went to the library.

-Continued reading and taking notes on Linear Models in Statistics by Alvin C. Rencher

-Continued reading and taking notes on "MATLAB: The Language of Technical Computing: Getting Started With MATLAB"

June 14th

-Working Lunch with other REU students

-Continued working in MATLAB

June 15th

-Continued working in MATLAB, learning the basics of how to work in the program

Week Four: 6/18-6/22

June 18th

-Located various articles to supplement the books I have been reading for research.

-Began to get a better idea of the workings of the actual MRI equipment

June 19th

-Read article "A complex way to compute fMRI activation" by Daniel Rowe and Brent Logan

-Outlined programs in MATLAB

June 20th

-Attended LaTeX introduction by Dr. Corliss

-Attempted to download LaTeX to my computer and begin learning how to use it

June 21st

-Working Lunch with other REU students

-Created basic color map using MATLAB

June 22nd

-Worked on power point for mini-presentation

Week Five: 6/25-6/29

June 25rd

-Met with Dr. Rowe

-Completed mini-presentation power point

June 26th

-MINI-PRESENTATIONS

-Watched all the other REU students present

-Shared with the rest of the REU group what work I have been doing this summer

June 27th

-Read "Region of interest analysis for fMRI" by Russell Poldrack

-Continued MATLAB coding

June 28th

-Read "Likelihood Ratio Test based on Fuzzy Data" by Zohreh Najafi, S. Mahmoud Taheri, and Mashaalah Mashinchi

-Attempted to understand the Likelihood Ratio Test

June 29th

-Continued working to understand the Likelihood Ratio Test

Week Six: 7/2-7/6

July 2nd

-Outlined more coding in MATLAB, determining what I need to make the computer do in order to run the linear regression test

July 3rd

-Attended talk by Dr. Brylow, "What Makes A Good Poster"

-Looked around the 3rd floor of Cudahy and critiqued the research posters, determined a favorite and a least favorite, and used it to figure out what I wanted to do with my poster

-Continued coding in MATLAB

July 4th

-Happy Independence Day!

July 5th

-Working Lunch with other REU students

-Continued reading and taking notes on Linear Models in Statistics by Alvin C. Rencher

July 6th

-Looked over MATLAB coding

Week Seven: 7/9-7/13

July 9th

-Reviewed general outline of problem.

-Looked at what had been accomplished and what still needed to be completed.

-Revised plan for the remainder of the program.

July 10th

-Continued reading and re-reading various articles and books to find details I had missed the first time around and to strengthen my understanding.

-Requested books from the Milwaukee Public Library

July 11th

-Continued reading books and articles.

July 12th

-Working Lunch with other REU students

-Picked up books from Milwaukee Public Library

-Began reading books from library

July 13th

-Continued reading books from Milwaukee Public Library

Week Eight: 7/16-7/20

July 16th

-Began to finalize MATLAB coding

-Completed codes relating to creating matricies with the mean and standard deviation for each voxel

July 17th

-Continued to finalize MATLAB coding

-Completed codes relating to linear regression and assessing the data

July 18th

-Began working on poster, drawing out a plan

-Met with Dr. Rowe

July 19th

-Continued working on poster, formatting

-Created graphics for poster

July 20th

-Continued working on poster, began working on content

Week Nine: 7/23-7/27

July 23rd

-Continued working on poster, content

July 24th

-Continued working on poster, created graphs

-Continued working with likelihood ratio test

July 25th

-Finished poster

-Finally have solid understanding of liklihood ratio test