Stuart Persyn

Stuart G. Persyn, MS is a statistical research associate at IMS Legal Strategies. With nearly a decade of experience in statistical research and design, Stuart provides independent consulting for public and private sector organizations. His consulting focuses on statistical design and analysis such as sampling, extrapolation, risk measurement, parametric modeling, and population projections. Other applications include analyzing GIS spatial data, machine learning models, and developing interactive web applications.

Stuart also has experience validating statistical models for banks, including credit risk, allowance for loan and lease losses, fraud, anti-money laundering, and risk-return forecast models. These validations aided in discovering high-risk model deficiencies like improper sampling methodology, calculations, floors, and model tuning.

Stuart has taught undergraduate courses in business statistics in the Department of Finance and Decision Sciences at Trinity University in San Antonio. He holds an MS in applied statistics and a BS in mathematics from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has formal education in advanced statistical analysis including categorical data analysis, survival analysis, simulation and stats computing, mathematical statistics, applied statistics, probability and statistics, experiments and sampling, data management in SAS, statistical applications using SAS, and multivariate analysis. His technical acumen includes proficiency in R, SAS, SQL, ArcGIS, and QGIS.