About the Author

Joshua Wiley is a research fellow at the Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research at the Australian Catholic University and a senior partner at Elkhart Group Limited, a statistical consultancy. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on using advanced quantitative methods to understand the complex interplays of psychological, social, and physiological processes in relation to psychological and physical health. In statistics and data science, Joshua focuses on biostatistics and is interested in reproducible research and graphical displays of data and statistical models. Through consulting at Elkhart Group Limited and his former work at the UCLA Statistical Consulting Group, Joshua has supported a wide array of clients ranging from graduate students to experienced researchers and biotechnology companies. He also develops or co-develops a number of R packages including varian, a package to conduct Bayesian scale-location structural equation models, and MplusAutomation, a popular package that links R to the commercial Mplus software.