Use Our Services
Personnel
at the SCC can serve as effective members of a research
team, especially if they are involved in the project
early in its development. Faculty and staff are available
to help you with your statistical
needs. Specifically,
we can offer help in the following areas:
Customized OpScan Forms
The SCC can create and tabulate customized "bubble
sheet" questionnaires using OpScan
equipment and software from NCS Pearson. We will
provide you with a digitized file of the
results. Optionally, you may have the data formatted for statistical
analysis.
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Data Entry and Data Management
For a fixed
hourly cost, we can enter your data from any of a number
of formats,
or we can work with data
that has been entered on disk. We can provide you with a diskette of
the data in IBM ASCII format at cost. We also provide help
with SAS and SPSS statistical software packages.
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Experimental and Research Design
We
can help with
- Designing a survey
- Identifying the proper,
most
efficient
design for
an experiment
- Devising the most effective
sampling technique
- Ensuring the integrity of the experimental
protocol
- Estimating the appropriate sample size for a given
experiment
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Statistical Analysis of Data
The statistical methodology that is appropriate
for a set of data is highly dependent on how the data were collected,
what research questions are being asked, and the general design of
the experiment.
We can provide data analysis capabilities ranging from complex data file
manipulation and standard descriptive statistical techniques to the most
powerful modern inferential statistical methods.
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Interpreting Results
Once the data have been analyzed, we interpret
the results, translating the statistical notation, jargon, and computer
output into clear, meaningful conclusions. We provide you with a
professional, thorough
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Statistics Education
Customized short courses or workshops
are offered in any of a variety of statistical topics. Several examples include:
- Applied Statistics for the Data Handler
- Statistical Quality Control Methods
- Advanced Statistical Methods for Nursing Research
- Advanced Statistical Methods for Biomedical Research
- What is Path Analysis and How Does It Work?
- Logistic Regression: What Is It and How Does It Work?
- Bayesian Statistical Methods - How and When to Use Them
- Statistical Planning and Analysis of Repeated Measures Designs in the
Health Care Sciences
- How to Choose the Correct Statistical Technique
- Shortcourse in Basic Regression Techniques
- Survival Analysis Methods
Specialized or customized short courses or workshops can be developed through
collaboration with the client to address his/her specific educational needs.
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Facilities and Computer Resources
The SCC is fully networked with the University IBM mainframe computers, the University
Unix systems, and the Internet. Our statistical software
includes SAS, SPSS, PASS, IMSL, Minitab, STATXACT, LOGXACT, EXECUSTAT,
S-Plus, and graphics and spreadsheet capabilities.
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