Positions

Research Areas research areas

Overview

  • Courtney Paulson is an Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences at the Paul College of Business and Economics. Her research focuses on the usage of statistics and data analysis in business domains, with a particular emphasis on computer algorithms and data scraping. In addition to publications in top journals like the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Dr. Paulson also maintains software packages and collaborates with industry professionals on both academic and company projects. She also served on the editorial board of the INFORMS Transactions on Education journal. In conjunction with her research work, Dr. Paulson teaches the MBA course "Data-Driven Decisions" (for both the full-time and part-time MBA programs) and the undergraduate "Business Stats" course for Paul College.

    Prior to joining the faculty of UNH, Dr. Paulson completed her PhD in Business Administration (Statistics) at the University of Southern California before taking a position as an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at the University of Maryland and later the Graduate Program Director for Southern Utah University's Master of Science in Business Analytics program. When she's not at UNH, you can usually find her at home watching sports or, ah, "researching probability" in Las Vegas.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2023 The player makes the coach: Exploring player development among Division I basketball coachesInternational Journal of Sports Science and Coaching.  18:695-704. 2023
    2023 Head Coach Gender and Player Performance in NCAA Softball.J Econ Race Policy.  6:1-14. 2023
    2022 Firing Discrimination of Coaches in the Most ‘Inclusive’ League?: Evidence from the Women’s National Basketball AssociationInternational Journal of Sport Management.  24:256-265. 2022
    2020 Integrating a safety smart list into the electronic health record decreases intensive care unit length of stay and costJournal of Critical Care.  57:246-252. 2020
    2020 Penalized and Constrained Optimization: An Application to High-Dimensional Website AdvertisingJournal of the American Statistical Association.  115:107-122. 2020
    2018 Efficient Large-Scale Internet Media Selection Optimization for Online Display AdvertisingJournal of Marketing Research.  55:489-506. 2018
    Exploitation in College Sports: No Longer just a “Man’s Game”Journal of Sports Economics

    Article

    Year Title
    2023 Reweighting data in penalized optimization models: an approach to maximize subgroup fairness 2023
    2022 Time Series Anomaly Detection in the Age of Big Data: Matching Data Processes to Algorithms 2022

    Conference Paper

    Year Title
    Evaluating Mental Health Care from a Natural Language Perspective: How Consistent is Your Teletherapist?
    Time Series Anomaly Detection in the Age of Big Data: Matching Data Generation Processes with Algorithms

    Other Research Activities

    Teaching Activities

  • Business Statistics Taught course
  • Data Driven Decisions Taught course
  • Unstructured Data Taught course
  • Unstructured Data Taught course
  • Data Driven Decisions Taught course 2023
  • Business Statistics Taught course 2023
  • Data Driven Decisions Taught course 2022
  • Education And Training

  • B.A. Statistics, University of Central Florida
  • Ph.D. Business Administration, University of Southern California
  • Full Name

  • Courtney Paulson