Statistical Consulting Service

*****The Statistical Consulting Service has a limited number of appointments available for the remainder of Spring 2025. Please be aware that if your initial meeting is not held by Wednesday, April 23th, we will hold your application until the Summer semester starts on Monday, June 19.*****

The Statistical Consulting Service (SCS) within the Department of Statistics provides consulting services, including statistical software support and assistance with experimental design and analysis, free of charge to the university community. These services are available to all Purdue faculty, staff, and students during Fall and Spring semesters as well as the 8-week Summer session.

Experimental Design and Analysis Consulting

This service provides assistance with experimental design and data analysis for all phases of research projects, including but not limited to:

Proposal preparation and study design, including survey design
Data input, manipulation and analysis
Interpretation and presentation of results
Assistance with other statistical or probability problems

Once your application is submitted, one of our graduate student consultants will contact you to schedule an initial meeting with you, the consultant and one of our SCS Faculty members. After the initial meeting, your consultant will continue to work with you one-on-one for the remainder of the semester.

Statistical Software Help Desk

The SCS Help Desk is a drop-in service that provides support with running a wide variety of statistical computing programs, including SAS, SPSS, Minitab, R, and Stata. The Help Desk is open in-person from 12-4pm in MATH 211 (Fall and Spring) or online (Fall, Spring, Summer).

Outside normal hours questions can also be submitted to: stat-help@stat.purdue.edu.