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Office of Statistical Consulting, Information Brochure
The Office of
Statistical Consulting is Equipped to Help You
The Office of Statistical Consulting was established in 1983 by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, to meet
the increasing demand by researchers, faculty, students, and administrators
throughout the university for advice on collecting and interpreting data.
Researchers from a broad range of disciplines, such as the biological
sciences, computer science, education, library science, and the social
sciences, can receive expert assistance from the consulting office. New initiatives of promoting
collaborative interdisciplinary research have been recently established to
meet the current trend of scientific research.
Consulting services are provided by faculty members and graduate
students under the supervision of faculty members. The main types of
activities include
Collaborative
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Faculty/researcher/graduate student research
problems, including statistical methodologies, experimental design and data
collection, data analysis, and interpretation of results
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Inter-disciplinary research and methodology
development
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Grant planning and development, power
analysis, proposal preparation
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Graduate student training/education in
quantitative skills and experience on real data analysis
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Among others
and Service oriented
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Offering statistical advices and performing
statistical analysis of data for clients
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Tutoring users on how to use statistical
software, technical support and instruction for supported software
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Extracting or converting data into a format
that suitable for analysis
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Among others
Active participation by statistics faculty in the Office of
Statistical Consulting allows researchers throughout and outside the
university to draw on current knowledge of the best statistical techniques.
Areas of expertise include biostatistics, genetics, data mining,
experimental design, survey sampling, multivariate analysis, statistical
modeling and methodology development, modern data analysis, statistical
computing, nonparametric statistics, quality control (including data
quality control), reliability theory, large-sample theory, queuing theory,
combinatorics, stochastic processes, probability, statistical decision
theory, image restoration and reconstruction, sequential analysis,
semi-parametric estimation, and operations research.
How to Get the
Help You Need
Call the Office of Statistical Consulting 445-2696 to schedule an
appointment to discuss your problem. There is no charge for the initial
review. Based on this discussion, the types and levels of statistical
services required are determined, ranging from statistical design of
experiments or surveys to modern data analysis. There are normally fees for
our service, but Rutgers students and
faculty whose work is not being supported by a grant can apply for a
waiver. Please visit OSC web page http://www.stat.rutgers.edu/osc/osc_index.htm
for more information.
Office of Statistical Consulting
Department of Statistics
479 Hill
Center-Busch Campus
Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey
110 Frelinghuysen Rd
Piscataway, NJ
08854-8019, USA
Telephone: 732-445-2696
FAX: 732-445-3428
E-mail: osc@stat.rutgers.edu
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