I have been tackling some "big picture" questions related to using statistical methods in practice.

My current major focus is on assessing the differences between explanatory modeling and statistical modeling in terms of the statistical modeling process (from data collection and goal definition to model use).Together with Otto Koppius (Erasmus University), we have won the Best Paper Award at the 2007 Conference on Information Systems & Technology for our paper "Constrasting explanatory and predictive modeling in Information Systems Research".

I have also been working on answering a question that many of my non-statistician colleagues have asked me: how to deal with inference (and p-values) in analyses of large samples.

You can find more about my work here.