UW Tacoma Statistics Consulting Group

The UW Tacoma Statistics Consulting Group is comprised of UW Tacoma faculty and staff who either specialize in or have strong experience and training in statistics and statistics software. The group offers guidance and statistics support at any stage of a project: research design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, drawing accurate inferences, and visualization. Statistical consultants also are able to provide help with many common statistics software programs such as R, SPSS, SAS, and Excel.

If you are conducting research or working on a project for which you will need statistical support, we strongly recommend contacting the statistical consulting group at the earliest possible stage. Involving a statistician at the outset of a project - including prior to starting data collection - often helps a researcher avoid difficulties in garnering valid information from results.

Services that consultants are likely to be able to provide include: 

  • Assistance with study planning and design, as related to quantitative data collection and methods.
  • Assistance with the choice and application of statistical methods for research studies and proposals.
  • Review of analysis section of proposals and publications/reports, as related to quantitative/statistical methods.
  • Clarification of basic statistical terms and statistics.
  • Advice on data visualization and presentation.
  • Assistance with statistical software tools.

Acknowledgements 

If you have received useful assistance and guidance from the UW Tacoma Statistics Consulting Group, we ask that you please consider including some form of acknowledgement of your consultant(s) and the UW Tacoma Statistics Consulting Group in your publication.  For example, an acknowledgement could read: “This study was supported by the work of [Name of Consultant X] and [Name of Consultant Y] through the UW Tacoma Statistics Consulting Group.” As noted above, in the event your consultation requires more than 10 hours of statistics consultation, we ask that you discuss listing your statistics consultant(s) as co-author on your publication.

Please also make sure to let your consultant(s) know when any manuscript that includes an acknowledgement or co-authorship has been submitted for publication so that we are able to track the contributions of the UW Tacoma Statistic Consultant Group.