Iris Eekhout
Statistician And Senior Scientist
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolIris Eekhout is a statistician and senior scientist with a decade of experience applying advanced methods to public-health and developmental measurement at TNO and VU University Medical Center. She specializes in psychometrics, missing-data methods, longitudinal and multilevel analyses, and pragmatic tools such as dynamic web applications and visualizations to make complex results accessible. Her PhD and postdoc work focused on handling missing questionnaire data in epidemiological research, and she teaches epidemiology and biostatistics part-time, bridging research and education. Practically fluent in R, Mplus, Stata and other statistical software, she builds reproducible workflows for reliability, rater agreement and multiple imputation studies. Colleagues value her ability to translate methodological innovation (e.g., the D-score for early child development) into usable measurement and policy-relevant insights. Based in Utrecht, she combines clinical-psychology training with rigorous statistical methodology to tackle societally relevant measurement problems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
VWO Atheneum, Highschool, VWO Atheneum, Highschool at ISW TiendwegMasters, Methodology and Statistics, Masters, Methodology and Statistics at Leiden UniversityBachelors, Psychology, Bachelors, Psychology at The University of Montana
English
Github Skills (7)
missing-data10
digital-humanities10
data-mining8
python7
data-manipulation7
data-analysis6
data-science6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
iriseekhout/MIC
Apr 2021 - Sep 2024
Minimal Important Change calculations
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
iriseekhout/Agree
Dec 2016 - Jul 2023
Contributions:115 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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