About Statistical Consulting

My Proposal has been accepted, can you analyze my results?

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Probably, but many doctoral students do not have an “actual statistician” on their committee. The methodologist on your committee surely has more experience with statistics than your other committee members, but that is very different than having someone with an advanced degree in statistics and 14 years or more of experience as a statistical consultant […]

I Tried to Analyze my Data Myself, Can You Review my Results?

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

I have had a number of doctoral students call me with a question something like this: I purchased the student version of SPSS. I was able to calculate the mean and the frequency and percent for my variables, and I even tried to compare my independent and dependent variables with an ANOVA, but I don’t […]

How Does Statistical Consulting Work?

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

I have helped hundreds of doctoral students in developing their research questions, hypotheses, survey design, data analysis plan, power analysis and sample size justification, and performing the statistical analysis of their data.
My clients receive a clearly written report that demonstrates how to interpret and report the results “AND” they receive unlimited email and phone support […]

Choosing a Statistical Consultant

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

In choosing a statistical consultant, ask yourself the following questions:
1) Does my consultant have a graduate degree in statistics?
2) Is statistical consulting for doctoral students their fulltime job, or is this something they do in the evenings and the weekends when they have time?