The training aspects of the statistical consulting cluster is organized around the statistical consulting practicum that is required of all graduate students. Consulting provides a natural vehicle for mentoring and promoting contact between students and senior scientists. Each semester, the faculty director organizes teams comprising two graduate students (one lead student and one support student) and a faculty member. Teams provide statistical consulting services to university researchers, often including graduate students from other disciplines and their advisors. The lead graduate student plans, schedules, and conducts the consulting sessions, under the oversight of the attending statistics faculty member. The lead is also responsible for post-session follow-up and written progress reports. The support student participates in the sessions contributing questions and ideas. Ideally, each student enrolled in the practicum is a member of at least two teams, once as lead and once providing support.

As a group the student consultants meet weekly in seminar with the faculty director. Each week a team makes a presentation pertaining to the activities of their group. Discussions may focus on the technical aspects of the consultation or the non-technical human aspect. A faculty member with departmental consulting duties usually directs the practicum, but many faculty are involved as team advisors. For detailed information, refer to the Statistical Consulting Practicum website:

• Course (ST641/841 web page)
• Student consulting projects

The department provides technical advisory services to researchers on a full range of topics including experiment design, data management, statistical procedures for analyzing experiments, interpretion of the results, statistical and biomathematical modeling, and statistical computing.

• Participate in and provide support to the NC Agricultural Research Service research enterprise.
• Provide advice to researchers on a full range of topics including choice of experiment design, management of data, statistical procedures for analyzing experiments, interpretion of the results, statistical and biomathematical modeling, and statistical computing.
• Faculty serve as members of graduate committees.
• Provide the training in statistics and computing necessary to take advantage of these services, and to carry out research and publish the results.
• Statistics faculty members engage in collaborative research efforts with faculty from other CALS departments.
• Provide training to Statistics graduate students in statistical practice, through participation in the consulting process.
• Through its Statistics Computing Support group, assist NC ARS researchers with the management, translation and analysis of data created on different platforms and in different storage formats.
• Subject to the availability of resources, provide consulting and collaborative services to the entire NCSU research community.

The Department of Statistics provides consultation on statistical computing to researchers and graduate students affiliated with the university. The SAS® System is the statistical software package supported by the consultants. Data analysis is the primary focus of the consulting.

• Dr. Consuelo Arellano
  
• Ms. Sandra B. Donaghy
  
• Dr. Jason A. Osborne
  
• Ms. Joy Smith

• ST641 - Statistical Consulting (ST641/841 web page)
• ST841 - Statistical Consulting (ST641/841 web page)

Updateed ... May 22, 2008