Stephen Fournier

Senior Lecturer in the Heller School and Adjunct Professor in the Brandeis International Business School

Specializations:

Teaching (statistics, econometrics, IT), data analysis and applied causal modeling and data maintenance

Degrees:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D.
Boston College, B.A.

Courses Taught:

BUS 1b

Quantitative Methods in Business
BUS 211f

Information Management
ECON 210f

Foundations of Statistics
ECON 211f

Foundations of Econometrics
ECON 212f

Survey of Advanced Econometric Techniques
HS 241f

Information System Strategies
HS 246b

Statistics
HS 404b

Applied Regression Analysis
HS 405a

Applied Econometrics
HS 406f

Hierarchical Linear Modeling
HS 801g

Proseminar

Profile:

Stephen F. Fournier has been teaching statistics, econometrics and IT courses across all five programs at Heller since 1996. Stephen's extensive IT knowledge includes both hardware and software. He currently teaches using Stata, but is also relied upon to answer and instruct in SPSS and/or SAS. His particular skills are associated with large data sets and he has developed, created and maintained a number of large databases for various research projects in the school. He has significant expertise in causal modeling (multiple regression, logit, multinomial logit, survival analysis, linear mixed models, etc.) He has also been a regular lecturer for various econometrics courses at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH - Kungl Tekniska Högkolan) since 1990.

Awards & Honors:

(2005) Heller Teaching Award