The Consulting Service was established in 1974 by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics with the aim of providing professional consultation to researchers and graduate students. The consultant is PhD student Sam Stewart, a Dalhousie Graduate with a Master's in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo who has worked in clinical research at the QEII HSC.

We welcome problems both from within Dalhousie University and from the government, business and scientific communities outside Dalhousie.

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 been 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. Excel, DBase, SQL, etc). If you are planning on analyzing your data with your own software, R, SAS , SPSS or other packages, we can help you interpret the output.

Hours:

By appoinment only.

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.

Contact information:

The Consulting Service office is located on the second floor of the Chase building, Room 213, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. For details on fees, or to make an appointment, call the Consulting Service (494-8850) or send an email at scs@mathstat.dal.ca