The Statistical Consulting Service
The Statistical Consulting Service
Who We Are
The Statistical Consulting Service was established in 1974 by the
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science with the
aim of providing professional statistical consultation to researchers
and graduate students.
The mandate of the Statistical Consulting Service is to provide
practical solutions to problems in a way that makes efficient use of
the data.
We welcome problems both from within Dalhousie University and from the
government, business and scientific communities outside Dalhousie.
Services Available
Clients who need to collect and analyze data often find that there are
many benefits to seeing a statistical consultant before collecting the
data. When the experiment or survey incorporates statistical
principles at the design stage, the analysis is usually simpler,
cheaper and leads to more clearly defined conclusions. If the
statistician is involved in the project from the beginning, it is
easier to make adjustments during the course of the study, if
necessary.
Once your experiment or survey has designed and the data have been
collected, many researchers overlook the exploratory stage of data
analysis, which we can help with. If you need models developed,
hypotheses tested, or help in understanding statistical methods, we
would be pleased to assist you.
We also have facilities for data entry, or if you already have the
data entered we can accommodate many of the common data base and spread
sheet programs' data files (e.g. Lotus, Excel, DBase, etc).
If you are planning on analysing your data with your own software,
SAS ,
SYSTAT,
SPSS,
BMDP or other packages, we can help
you interpret the output.
Present and Current Project Descriptions
Please click here for a sampling of past
and present consulting projects.
Location
On the second floor of the Chase building, Room 213
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science.
Appointments are usually necessary and may be made by calling 494-8850
during regular office hours.
Terms
The consulting service operates on a fee-for-service basis as well as
on a contract basis. Bills are due within 30 days of the invoice
date. Graduate Students are eligible for a subsidy for the
consultations, but not for data analysis. Details on fees are
available from Wade Blanchard at the Consulting Service Office
(494-8850) or by email wade.blanchard@dal.ca.
Members
W. Blanchard,
K. Bowen,
C.A. Field,
G. Gabor,
R. P. Gupta,
D. Hamilton,
B. Smith,
E. Susko,
K. Thompson.
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