SFU Statistical Consulting Service

Statistics Group Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science Simon Fraser University
	Ian Bercovitz - Consultant

Ask Dr. Stats: Online Statistical Consulting

Overview

Goals

1. To provide expert statistical advice to individuals involved in data-based research projects.
2. To promote links between the statistical education program at SFU and individuals involved in data-based research.
3. To improve the quality of both data-based research and the teaching of graduate students in statistics.

Resources

• The SCS has ready access to a variety of modern computing facilities and software.
• The SCS has a full-time Director, who is a qualified statistical consultant.
• All statistical faculty in the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science at SFU contribute to the SCS; their combined experience includes a full spectrum of statistical application areas as well as a broad coverage of statistical techniques.
• SCS staff have contacts to other university resources that can be arranged on a contractual basis.

What can we do for you?

• Design of experiments or surveys.
• Sample size determination.
• Suggest software for statistical analysis.
• Advise on graphical data summaries.
• Suggest inferential techniques when appropriate.
• Assess study protocols in grant applications.
• Advise on quality assurance and reliability methods.
• Offer short courses.

Examples Of completed projects

• Modeling the distribution of pulp fibre length.
• Study of ventilation in humans during exercise.
• Effects of mild anesthesia on the thermoregulatory response during cold exposure in humans.
• Career profile of women scientists in B.C.
• Parental decision-making for student recruitment into early French immersion.
• Sediment discharge regimes of B.C. rivers.
• Comparison of diets for salmon nutrition.
• Mark-recapture method of estimating size of a criminal population from police records.
• Analysis of DNA damage in bladder cells.

What does it cost?

Task assessment, advice and minor assistance are free; work resulting in co-authorship is also usually free. Major assistance is charged at competitive rates. For more detailed information on costs, call (604) 291-4670.

For more information on our service, please call us at (604) 291-4670, or by e-mail at stat_scs@cs.sfu.ca (CAUTION - our email address is stat_scs, i.e. there is an underscore between 'stat' and 'scs'):

or contact us by snail-mail at:

       Statistical Consulting Service
       TLX 10513
       Simon Fraser University
       8888 University Drive
       Burnaby, BC  V5A 1S6