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Statistical Consulting Clinic

Locations

We have offices in 390 Ford Hall on the Minneapolis campus and 48 McNeal Hall on the St. Paul campus.

Making an appointment

We only provide in-person consultations made by appointment; walk-in, telephone, and email consultations are not available.

To make an appointment, please email clinic@stat.umn.edu with

  • your full name, department (avoiding abbreviations), and university affiliation (faculty, student, or staff)
  • the name of your advisor or supervising faculty member (if student or staff)
  • the fund number to charge (unless CLA or CVM), the name of the person authorizing the charge, and the name and email of your department financial staff person
  • a brief summary of your research and statistical issues
  • preferred location (McNeal Hall in St. Paul, or Ford Hall in Minneapolis)
  • the phrase “statistical consulting appointment” somewhere in the title or body of the email, to prevent your message from being filtered as spam

Before you come, please read about our expectations and eligibility requirements.

We usually make appointments about a week ahead, so don't wait until the last minute to get help!

2012–2013 Rates

The Statistical Clinic is a fee-for-service organization with an hourly consulting rate. Rates for 2012–2013 are $90/hour for appointments and $80/hour for independent work.

Researchers from the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Veterinary Medicine are eligible for free consulting as provided by those colleges; see below for details. Other colleges or departments are also invited to consider funding this service centrally to better support research within their unit; for more information, please contact the Consulting Manager, Aaron Rendahl.

Acknowledgement, including co-authorship, is appropriate when our work on the project warrants it; it is not appropriate as a substitute for funding.

College of Liberal Arts: Faculty and graduate students in the College of Liberal Arts are invited to contact the Statistical Clinic for help with any quantitative research question. Professors may prefer to contact the director, Professor Weisberg. Consulting is available during fall and spring semesters and during summer session by appointment. Consulting is done in Ford Hall on the University's East Bank Campus.

College of Veterinary Medicine: The College of Veterinary Medicine has provided funding to sponsor this service through an investment by the Office of the Associate Dean of Research for the Molecular and Genetic Models sub-group of the Comparative Medicine signature program. It is to be used primarily for genetic research projects, but a portion of time (about 4 hours per week) is open to any comparative medicine project, with an emphasis on those that are likely to lead to future funding.To better serve CVM researchers, Consulting Manager Aaron Rendahl has a part time office in 295h Animal Science Veterinary Medicine.

Researchers from the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) and non-veterinary researchers in the Academic Health Center (AHC) will first be referred to the statistical consulting organizations within those units; the Office of Research Consultation and Services for CEHD and the Biostatistical Design and Analysis Center for AHC.