STA 390 Statistical Consulting

Instructor: Michel Lavine, 218 Old Chem, michael@stat.duke.edu
Office Hours: TBA

Meeting Times: Mon, 11:50 - 12:40, 025 Old Chem

Course Description:
This course will involve students will real life consulting with researchers at Duke University. Topics covered will include statistical modeling strategies, aspects of statistical communication and working with clients.

Course work:
For the most part, students will attend actual consulting sessions thru the Statistical Consulting Center at Duke Statistics and will be expected to play a role in the consulting. The scheduled class time will typically be spent reviewing consulting sessions that went on the previous week and discussing examples from Applied Statistics by Cox and Snell.

Software:

We'll primarily use Splus and R

Consulting Schedule
Time Monday (Michael) Monday (Dave) Tuesday (Dave) Tuesday (Michael) Wednesday (Dave) Thursday (Dave) Thursday (Michael) Friday (Dave)
9:00-10:00
10:00-11:00
11:00-12:00
12:00-1:00
1:00-2:00
2:00-3:00
3:00-4:00
4:00-5:00

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