| STATISTICAL CONSULTING
CENTER |
SCC:
3379 Rood Hall
phone: (269) 387-2852
Summer Director:
Robert McNutt
robert.w.mcnutt@wmich.edu
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OVERVIEW
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The Department of Statistics at Western Michigan University houses the
Statistical Consulting Center (SCC).
The primary purpose of the SCC is to help faculty and staff in statistical
design, data collection, analysis, report writing, and grant
preparation. The SCC is open to helping graduate
students as well, although this requires permission from the Graduate
School (see the link on the left margin). In addition,
the SCC works with local
entities such as the Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies and
Innovative
Analytics. Much of the work is done by
graduate students from the Department of Statistics under the
supervision of
the director of the SCC or a department faculty member.
Summer Schedule:
All consulting inquiries during summer session should
be directed to Robert McNutt
(robert.w.mcnutt@wmich.edu).
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CONSULTING FEES
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| Modest
fees are generally charged to offset the costs of such things as staff,
hardware, software, etc.
Generally speaking, these fees are negotiable and depend on type
and scope of
project, statistical complexity, and who will be
doing most
of the work (faculty or graduate students).
These fees may be offset or
waived if the investigator is willing to include the SCC as
a line
item on proposed budgets or include SCC personnel as CO-PI on
grant
proposals and journal articles. |
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COLLABORATION
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| The
SCC
is interested in collaborating with other scientists at WMU and local
industry.
To help facilitate this collaboration the SCC offers free consulting on
Friday afternoons from 1:00 to 3:00 during the fall and
spring semesters (i.e. "Free Friday").
Appointments
are required and can be set up by contacting the director of the
SCC.
When a SCC consultant becomes a co-author on a paper or a CO-PI on
a grant
proposal, he/she will take an active role in writing the statistical
parts of
the paper or proposal. |
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AREAS
OF EXPERTISE
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| The
SCC
works closely with the Department of Statistics. A description of an
incoming
project is often e-mailed to the faculty who in turn may offer their
consulting
services or help in the preparation of a grant proposal. Faculty may
also offer
short courses through the SCC. The following are our areas of expertise: |
| Analysis of Variance |
Multiple Comparison
Procedures |
| Basic
Statistical Methods |
Monte
Carlo Procedures |
| Bootstrap |
Multivariate
Methods |
| Categorical
Analysis |
Nonlinear
Models |
| Classification |
Nonparametric
Procedures |
| Descriptive
Procedures |
Principal
Components |
| Design
of Experiments |
Propensity
Analysis |
| Development
of Statistical Software |
Resampling
Techniques |
| Discriminant
Analysis |
Response
Surface Methods |
| Environmental
Statistics |
Robust
Statistical Procedures |
| Factor
Analysis |
Statistical
Computing |
| Industrial
Design of Experiments |
Statistical
Graphic Procedures |
| Linear
Regression |
Structural
Equation Modeling
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| Logistic
Regression |
Survival
Analysis |
| Meta
Analysis |
Taguchi
Methods |
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Time
Series |
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