Statistics and Data Analysis

• Do you have questions about statistics in general or need a statistics tutor/consultant?
• Do you want statistics explained to you in simple English using concrete examples?
• Do you need to learn what analysis or statistical test will best answer your question? 
• Do you need to develop testable hypotheses?
• Do you need help using statistical software packages such as SPSS, SAS, R, HLM, AMOS, EQS, and LISREL?
• Would you like help interpreting your statistical output and formulating conclusions?
• Do you have data that "behaves strangely?"
• Would you like help in preparing tables and graphs for your report?
• Do you need help combining qualitative and quantitative research methods, data collection, or data analysis?
• Would you like help designing the content or form of a survey or questionnaire (e.g., frame clear questions, web-based surveys)?
• Would you like help with data handling/databases (e.g., setting up databases and data organization schemes)?

Specialized Services for Graduate Students

Get your thesis or dissertation done sooner.
We'll help you:

• Formulate hypotheses
• Determine a justifiable sample size utilizing power analyses
• Identify your dependent and independent variables
• Design a survey that answers your research questions
• Tune up your methodology chapter to add clarity to your study
• Interpret the results and formulate conclusions based on your findings
• Present your results utilizing tables and graphs
• Verify the accuracy of your technical writing, including the use of italics and proper spacing: t(38) = 3.98, p = .032
• Feel confident about your results
• Understand and respond to your committee's comments and questions
• Prepare for your final oral defense

Graduate students who work with us find:

• They are better prepared and more confident when they meet with their advisors and committees.
• They more clearly understand their findings/results so they are able to write better conclusions and recommendations.
• They are more confident when presenting their studies at their oral examinations.
• They are done with their project sooner, which saves them time, tuition costs, and hassle.

Specialized services for researchers

We know that you take your research seriously, and so do we. We undertand that your time is valuable.

Our objective is to help by:

• Developing the research question(s)
• Designing the methods
• Validating surveys
• Entering data
• Analyzing your data using rigorous quantitative techniques
• Interpreting your findings
• Preparing tables and graphs
• Addressing the comments of reviewers and editors
  
• Solving your problems in an expedient, efficient, and timely manner

Statistical Modelling for the Biosciences, including:

• Statistical and computational modelling of relationships between different variables, if possible with causal interpretation
• Computer simulation of biological processes
• Sample size determination and power analysis
• Time series analysis of climate data (ARIMA modelling)

Ecology and Environmental Science:

• Which environmental conditions have an influence on the density of a population, and what does the quantitative relation look like?
• Which variables determine the spatial distribution of organisms?
• Which species can act as environmental indicators in a community?
• Which species are found together, which are not?
• How can habitats be described quantitatively?
• Descriptions and comparisons of ecosystems

Medical, Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Does a treatment show the desired response? Are there side effects?
• How effective or toxic is a chemical compound?
• Can diseases be diagnosed automatically on the basis of suitable measurements?
• What sample size is needed in a study to properly test for an effect?

Agriculture and Forestry

• How can the establishment of a pest species be described numerically?
• What environmental features of forests tend to occur together?
• What are the structural properties of food webs?
• How will pollinators respond to global warming?

Population Genetics and Evolution

• What is the effect of frequency-dependent selection on allele frequencies?
• How does the morphology of a taxon change through the fossil record?
• How are different species related?

We collaborate with you throughout the process by phone and by online virtual meetings. 

Specialized services for marketers, advertisers, and businesses

We have progressed from a society begging to obtain some data to one that has more data than consumers. What do we do with all those spreadsheets and databases? Our job is to make sense of it for you by:

• Analyzing data gathered from surveys and studies to find patterns and relationships
• Offering clear interpretations
• Utilizing rigorous methods and analytic techniques to transform results into clear language easily understood by a wide variety of audiences and stakeholders.
• Offering suggestions for best practices
• Providing results within your timeframe.

Feedback
(see individual bios for details)

"My request was handled instantly and I was receiving help within 48 hours of my initial request!"

"My stress level has definitely gotten better!"

" I appreciate the time you took one-on-one to help me learn to run my own stats and to understand SPSS . I feel as if I've had a one person tutorial which allowed me to continue on my own. I can pick up other projects with confidence now and I can figure out how to run analyses that we didn't do together. So I am a VERY satisfied customer."

"The feedback and references that I received have assisted me in my efforts to understand the processes of statistics analysis, and worked well to formulate my results into a valid discussion."

"The network was very easy to use. The services I received saved me time and stress."

"While we knew the field of anesthesia, none of us were statisticians and we struggled greatly in making sense of our data. [M]ost of our questions were answered within 48 hours of our initial request. Excellent service and quality."

"She made it data understandable, interesting, and I learned a lot!"

"Everything went well and I was able to complete, defend my dissertation successfully and graduate in December. Your help was essential in getting me going again to achieve this goal."

"The process of writing my thesis has been a great learning experience, however I do not have a deep understanding of statistics and what test to use when. I am so thankful to have found this service! The time saved is worth every penny. My kids are ready to have Mommy off the computer!"

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Updated November 2, 2009

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