Statistical Consulting
At The Dissertation Coach, our statistical consultants offer far more than technical assistance. We bring expertise, clarity, patience, and real academic mentorship to your project. For more than 25 years, we’ve supported thousands of graduate students across disciplines as they navigate the most challenging quantitative and analytical components of their dissertation journey.
Whether you’re selecting analyses, organizing your dataset, running tests, interpreting results, or preparing for your defense, our statisticians partner with you step-by-step so you never feel lost or alone in the process.
What Is Statistical Consulting?
Statistical consulting gives you direct access to highly experienced statisticians who help you design your quantitative study, select the correct statistical tests, understand and analyze your data, and report results.
With statistical consulting, you will:
Develop precise hypotheses, variables, and analytic plans
Select methods and sampling strategies that align with your research design
Choose and run the correct analyses, either with us or alongside us
Understand your results and how to report them accurately
Write strong quantitative methods and results chapters
Prepare for proposal or final defense questions about your statistics
Our team includes former professors, committee members, quantitative methodologists, and industry statisticians who know exactly what committees expect and how to help you meet those expectations.
Who We Help
We support master’s and doctoral students across a wide range of fields, including:
Education (K-12 and Higher Education)
Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and other social sciences
Business, economics, and management fields
Nursing, public health, medicine, and health sciences
Public policy, government, and political science
Biology, environmental sciences, and life sciences
Whether you are developing your proposal, analyzing data, or finalizing your defense, our consultants will help you navigate quantitative methods with clarity and confidence.
How Statistical Consulting Works
1. Free consultation
Share details about your study, your dataset (if applicable), and your support needs.
2. Personalized estimate
You’ll receive a clear, flexible, hourly-based estimate tailored to your project.
3. Step-by-step support
Work with us in whatever way fits your learning style:
We can run analyses for you
You can run analyses with us on a shared screen
Or we can teach you to run them independently
4. Review & refine
We can double-check any analyses you’ve already completed and correct issues as needed.
Common Challenges We Solve
Students come to us with a wide range of data and methodology challenges, including:
Determining hypotheses, variables, and analytic plans
Selecting appropriate tests and statistical models
Planning sample sizes, power analysis, and feasibility
Designing surveys, instruments, and data collection strategies
Cleaning, restructuring, or repairing messy datasets
Running statistics in SPSS, R, Stata, SAS, JASP, or Python
Troubleshooting coding or programming errors
Interpreting output and writing results sections
Preparing for committee questions and feedback
What Our Consultants Do (and Don’t)
We will:
Guide you in choosing, running, and interpreting the correct analyses
Provide expert feedback on your methods and results
Help you write strong quantitative chapters
Teach you skills you can use throughout your career
Offer patient, supportive, clear mentorship
We won’t:
Write your dissertation for you or misrepresent your work. Our goal is to empower you ethically with the expertise needed to complete your study confidently.
Statistical Techniques We Offer
- Power Analysis & Sample Size Calculations
- T-tests (single-sample, independent-samples, paired)
- Factorial designs (ANOVA, ANCOVA, MANOVA, MANCOVA)
- Categorical models (Proportions test, chi-squares, contingency tables, loglinear models)
- Correlations (Pearson, Spearman, partial)
- Repeated measures tests
- Regression models (linear, non-linear, hierarchical, logistic, ordinal, poisson, cox)
- Mediation and moderation models
- General and generalized linear models (GLM)
- Path analysis
- Principal Components Analysis & Factor Analysis (Exploratory & Confirmatory)
- Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
- Cluster Analysis
- Missing Data Imputation
- Meta-analysis
- Econometrics (forecasting, time series, ARIMA, panel, cointegration)
- Psychometric (reliability, validity, IRT)
- Longitudinal models (latent growth, mixed effects)
- Nonparametric tests (Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks, McNemar’s, Friedman’s)
- Simulations and bootstrapping
- Data visualizations
- Market basket analysis, neural networks, and decision trees
- Text mining
- Sentiment analysis
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a statistical consultant do?
A statistical consultant helps you design your analysis plan, select appropriate tests, run analyses, interpret results, and write clear methods and results chapters. They provide expert academic guidance—not just technical support.
Will you run the statistics for me, teach me, or both?
Both. We can run analyses for you, work through them together on a shared screen, or teach you to run them independently. You choose the level of involvement that fits your learning style and project.
Which software do you work with?
We regularly support SPSS, R, Stata, SAS, JASP, Jamovi, Mplus, HLM, NVivo, MAXQDA, Dedoose, Python, and more. If you’re unsure, just ask.
Can you help me choose the right statistical test?
Yes. We help you determine appropriate tests based on your research questions, variables, design, and assumptions.
Can you help me develop hypotheses, variables, and an analysis plan?
Absolutely. Clear hypothesis development and analytic planning are core parts of our consulting.
I already collected data. Can you check my analyses for accuracy?
Yes. We can review everything you’ve done, confirm correctness, identify issues, and help you refine your results.
Can you help me clean or restructure my dataset?
Yes. We assist with data cleaning, coding, formatting, and repairing problematic datasets.
Do you help with power analysis and sample size calculations?
Yes. We can assess feasibility, calculate required sample sizes, and help justify your design.
Can you help me write the statistical methods and results sections?
Yes. We guide you in writing clear, accurate, committee-ready chapters with appropriate tables, figures, and interpretations.
Can you guarantee that my committee will approve my work?
No consultant can ethically guarantee approval. However, we help you produce rigorous, defensible, high-quality work that aligns with academic standards.
What if my data is messy or incomplete?
We can help diagnose issues, salvage usable data, perform imputation where appropriate, and guide you toward a valid analytic strategy.
Is it ethical to use a statistical consultant?
Yes—as long as you remain the author of your dissertation. We guide, teach, and support you while ensuring that all work adheres to ethical academic standards.
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