Statistical Consulting Services (SCS)

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The Statistical Consulting Services (SCS) provides advice on statistical problems arising in the preparation of studies, the analysis of data and the interpretation of results. It provides a center for discussion on research problems and methodological advances in statistics and probability.

Hourly Rates

Our initial intake meetings are free of charge. Our internal fees are as follows:

$75/hour | Grad Students - Set up or consulting time

$95/hour | Post-Doc - Set up or consulting time

$120/hour | Director - Set up or consulting time

External clients should contact Timothy E. Moore (timothy.e.moore@uconn.edu) for more fee information.

Submitting data

Although our consultants can help with correctly formatting data, we highly recommend that clients attempt to have their data appropriately formatted prior to submission to our service. More information about formatting data.pdf and using OpenRefine to clean up data. Examples of wide and long data formats (we recommend one of these be used for submission).

Project Scope

The majority of projects taken on by the SCS are what we call short-term consultations, with a total duration of no more than 15 student hours worth of work. Consultations anticipated to require substantially more than roughly 15 hours of work may be recommended for collaborative consulting. Evaluation of such recommendations typically will include a discussion of co-authorship on resulting end-products.

Policies on Acknowledgement of Statistical Consulting and Collaboration

For projects which lead to presentations, projects, or publications it is expected that appropriate authorship will be discussed for those statisticians substantively involved. When the scope of the work is limited to less than 15 hours, but nevertheless is used in a presentation, project, or publication, we would appreciate an appropriate citation or acknowledgment. For example, clients may include "We acknowledge the help of [NAME] of UConn's Statistical Consulting Services under the guidance of Dr [NAME]” as a footnote accompanying grant support and related projects."¹ If you have any questions regarding our acknowledgement policy, please contact Timothy E. Moore at timothy.e.moore@uconn.edu.

¹This policy is intended to allow clients maximum flexibility in seeking out and benefiting from our statistical consulting work while, at the same time, promoting best practice regarding academic intellectual property. For more information, we direct clients to the American Statistical Association’s guide to working with a statistical consultant (ASA_brochure.pdf).

Faculty, staff and students at UConn have access to a wide variety of statistical software. These statistical tools provide varied levels of support for data exploration, analysis and visualization.

Licensed Software

Open Source Software

UConn Anywhere

UConn affiliates can also access software online through UConn Anywhere:

"As an alternative to downloading and installing applications directly onto your computer, you can access the select university-licensed software on your devices through UConn AnyWare."

Access UConn Anywhere via software.uconn.edu/uconn-software-online.

SCS Spring 2025 Consulting Team

The SCS is staffed by late-career Ph.D. students from UConn's Department of Statistics. These students come from diverse backgrounds and have a wide variety of skills and interests. This allows the SCS to offer analytical support on a wide range of research topics, and provide assistance on a number commonly encountered statistical issues, such as, missing data imputation, generalized linear and non-linear mixed effects models, time series analysis, variable selection, and many more!

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