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Nicolle T. Clements, PhD

Associate Professor

Nicolle Clements

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Mandeville 348

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610-660-2215
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Nicolle Clements is an Associate Professor at Saint Joseph's University in the Department of Decision System Sciences. She is the Academic Coordinator of the MS in Business Intelligence & Analytics program. She earned her doctoral degree in Statistics from the Fox School of Business at Temple University, where she specialized in high dimensional multiple testing procedures. She also holds an M.S. in Statistics from Virginia Tech and a B.S. in Mathematics from Millersville University. Dr. Clements has been teaching since 2009 and working as a statistical consultant since 2010. Her current research involves applied statistical analysis in the Pennsylvania Agricultural sector.  She is currently working on a grant through the PA Department of Agriculture to collect and analyze data for evaluation of several state initiatives, including: PA Preferred brand, investigating urban agriculture in PA, consumer perceptions and misconceptions of industrial hemp, and small meat processing capacity in PA.  In addition to her research, Dr. Clements frequently teaches courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive level on topics such as statistics, data mining, and R statistical programming. 

    • PhD in Statistics, Temple University Fox School of Business
    • MS in Statistics, Virginia Tech
    • MS in Mathematics, Millersville University

  • Research publications include:

    • Marlowe, D., Festinger, D., Dugosh, K., Caron, A., Podkopacz, M., Clements, N. “Targeting dispositions for drug-involved offenders: A field trial of the Risk and Needs Triage (RANT).” (2011) Journal of Criminal Justice 39 (3), 253-260.
    • Clements, Sarkar, Guo. “Astronomical Transient Detection Controlling the False Discovery Rate.” (2012) Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V, Springer, 383-396. 
    • Benishek, Lois A.; Carter, Meridith; Clements, Nicolle T.; Allen, Cassandra; Salber, Kristin E.; Dugosh, Karen L.; Kirby, Kimberly C. “Psychometric assessment of a self-administered version of the Significant Other Survey.” (2012) Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 26 (4), 986-993.
    • Kim; Thomas; Olson; Williams; Clements. “Statistical Trend and Change Point Analysis of Land Cover Change Patterns in East Africa.” (2013) International Journal of Remote Sensing. Volume 34, 6636-6650.
    • Brooks, A., Carpenedo, C., Fairfax-Columbo, J., Clements, N., Benishek, L., Knoblach, D., Carise, D., Kirby, K. “The RoadMAP Relapse Prevention Group Counseling Toolkit™: Counselor Adherence and Competence Outcomes” (2013) Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Volume 45, 356–362.
    • Clements, Sarkar, Wei. “Multiplicative Spatio-Temporal Models For Remotely Sensed Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Data.” Journal of International Energy Policy (2014) 3 (1), 1-14.
    • Benishek, L., Dugosh, K., Kirby, K., Matejkowski, J., Clements, N., Seymour, B., and Festinger, D. "Prize-based Contingency Management for the Treatment of Substance Abusers: A Meta-analysis" Addiction (2014) 109 (9), 1426-1436.
    • Clements, N. “A Comparison of Simultaneous Confidence Intervals to Identify Handwritten Digits.” International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (2014). 5 (3), 29-40.
    • Clements, Nicolle, Sanat Sarkar, Zhigen Zhao, Dong-Yun Kim. “Applying Multiple Testing Procedures Detect Change in East African Vegetation.” Annals of Applied Statistics (2014) 8 (1), 286-308
    • Festinger, D., Dugosh, K., Marlowe, D., Clements, N. “Achieving New Levels of Recall in Consent to Research by Combining Remedial and Motivational Techniques.” Journal of Medical Ethics (2014) 40 (4), 264-268.
    • Hudson, C., Kirby, K., Nick, C., Clements, N., Benishek, L. “Social Adjustment of Women with and without a Substance Abusing Partner.” Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. (2014) 46 (2), 106-113.
    • Dugosh, K., Festinger, D., Marlowe, D., Clements, N. “Developing an Index to Measure the Voluntariness of Consent to Research. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics.” Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (2014). 
    • Matejkowski, J., Dugosh, K., Clements, N., Festinger, D. “Development and pilot testing of an online training to raise awareness among criminal justice professionals of medications used to treat opioid addiction” Drug & Alcohol Dependence. (2015) Volume 146, e196.
    • Matejkowski, J., Dugosh, K., Clements, N., Festinger, D. “Pilot Testing of an Online Training for Criminal Justice Professionals on Medication-Assisted Treatment” Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling (2015) 36 (1), 13-27
    • Kathleen Campbell Garwood , Alicia Graziosi Strandberg , Nicolle Clements (2016), Optimizing Resources to Better Forecast Future Profits, in Kenneth D. Lawrence , Ronald K. Klimberg (ed.) Advances in Business and Management Forecasting (Advances in Business and Management Forecasting, Volume 11) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.3 – 17
    • Festinger, Dugosh, Clements, Flynn, Falco, McLellan, Arria. “Use of the Internet to Obtain Drugs Without a Prescription Among Treatment-Involved Adolescents and Young Adults.” Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse. 2016 25(5), pg 480-486
    • Robin Jindal, Nicolle Clements, and Vipul Gupta. (2016) “Exploratory aspect-based sentiment analysis approach to gauge performance of novels from online reviews.” Journal of Technology Research. Volume 7 
    • Herschel and Clements. “The Importance of Storytelling in Business Intelligence.” International Journal of Business Intelligence. Volume 8, Issue 1 (2017)
    • Saurav Mohanty, Nicolle Clements, and Vipul Gupta. (2018) “Investigating the effect of eWOM in movie box office success through an aspect-based approach.” International Journal of Business Analytics. 5(1)
    • Garwood, Jones, Clements, Miori. (2018) “Innovations to Identifying the Effects of Clear Information Visualization: Reducing Managers Time in Data Interpretation” Journal of Visual Literacy https://doi.org/10.1080/1051144X.2018.1435024 
    • Miori, Clements, Garwood. (2018) “Building a Ranked Data Analytics Program” book chapter– “Teaching Data Analytics: Pedagogy and Program Design,” part of a Data Analytics Applications series published by CRC Press.
    • Clements, Herschel, Miori. “Ethics in Storytelling for Business Intelligence” book chapter Nova Science Publishers. Information, Communication, and Automation Technology Ethics in the Knowledge Society Age. Accepted February 2018
    • Clements. “Multiple Testing in the World of Business – When and How.” International Journal of Business and Data Analytics. 2018.
    • H Hambrose, EM Woodward, N Clements, M Glassner, J Orris. "Relationship between number of oocytes retrieved from anonymous egg donors and subsequent embryo quality after in vitro fertilization (IVF): a retrospective study" Fertility and Sterility 112 (3), e186. 2019
    • VM Miori, N Clements, BW Segulin. "Heuristic Approach to Temporal Assignments of Spatial Grid Points for Vegetation Monitoring" International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS) 10 (3), 1-19. 2019
    • V Miori, N Clements, K Garwood. Building a Ranked Data Analytics Program. Teaching Data Analytics: Pedagogy and Program Design, 185. 2019
    • J Kurtz, N Clements, A Bloom, JJ Orris, MJ Glassner, SH Anderson. "The Effect of Growth Hormone on IVF Outcomes During Ovarian Stimulation: A Matched Cohort Study" Fertility and Sterility 114 (3), e458-e459. 2020
    • JD Buerger, J Datla, S Minassian, MJ Glassner, JJ Orris, N Clements. "Relationship Between the Number of Oocytes Retrieved and Embryo Euploidy Rate" Fertility and Sterility 114 (3), e324-e325. 2020
    • S Anderson, P Xu, AJ Frey, JR Goodspeed, MT Doan, JJ Orris, N Clements. "Cumulus cell acetyl-CoA metabolism from acetate is associated with maternal age but only partially with oocyte maturity" bioRxiv 2020.
    • Sharon Anderson, Peining Xu, Alexander J. Frey, Jason R. Goodspeed, Mary T. Doan, John J. Orris, Nicolle Clements, Michael J. Glassner, Nathaniel W. Snyder “Cumulus cell acetyl-CoA metabolism from acetate is associated with maternal age but only partially with oocyte maturity” (UAAN-2020-0355). Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine. February 2020
    • Jonathan D Buerger, Jitesh Datla, Shahab Minassian, Michael J Glassner, John J Orris, Nicolle Clements, Alyssa Sheffy, Sharon H Anderson. “Relationship Between Number of Oocytes Retrieved and Embryo Euploidy Rate.” Fertility and Sterility 114 (3), e324-e325, 2020.
    • Jillian Kurtz, Nicolle Clements, Allison Bloom, John J Orris, Michael Glassner, Sharon H Anderson. “The Effect of Growth Hormone on In Vitro Fertilization Outcomes During Ovarian Stimulation: A Matched Cohort Study.” Fertility and Sterility 114 (3), e458-e459, 2020.
    • Shannon T Alexa, Jillian Kurtz, Nicolle Clements, John J Orris, Michael Glassner, Sharon H Anderson. “Comparison of Zymottm Microfluidic Sperm Selection Device (SSD) to Simple Swim-Up Method (SSU) on Sperm Motility Parameters and Morphology”. Fertility and Sterility 116 (3), e159-e160, 2021.
    • Sharon Anderson, Peining Xu, Alexander J Frey, Jason R Goodspeed, Mary T Doan, John J Orris, Nicolle Clements, Michael J Glassner, Nathaniel W Snyder. “Cumulus cell acetyl-CoA metabolism from acetate is associated with maternal age but only partially with oocyte maturity.” Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine 68 (1), 36-43, 2022.
    • Jonathan D Buerger, Jitesh Datla, Shahab Minassian, Sarah Dreibelbis, Michael J Glassner, John J Orris, Nicolle Clements, Alyssa Sheffy, Sharon H Anderson. "Relationship Between Number of Oocytes Retrieved and Embryo Euploidy Rate in Controlled Ovarian Stimulation Cycles." Reproductive Sciences (30) 865:872, 2023.
    • Nicolle Clements. “Understanding consumer perceptions and misconceptions of industrial hemp.” Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business. (Volume 14), 2024.