The Statistics Department at UW-Madison has a course on statistical consulting, offered each semester. I’m often asked to give a lecture, which I do in an informal way: summarizing my experiences and answering questions. I thought it might be useful write my thoughts on statistical consulting here: why, how, and difficulties. This will be a […]
Last Thursday (28 March 2013), George Box passed away at the age of 93. He was one of the great statisticians of the last 100 years, and leaves an astonishingly diverse legacy. When I teach forecasting to my second year commerce students, we cover Box-Cox transformations, Box-Pierce and Ljung-Box tests, and Box-Jenkins modelling, and my students wonder if it is the same Box in all cases. It is. And we…
There must be dozens of statistical consulting businesses and organizations in Australia, each specializing in different areas. I do some consulting work myself, mostly in the forecasting area, but sometimes in other areas of applied statistics including expert witness work in court cases. Email me if you have a project you would like me to take on. However, I often refer potential clients to other statistical consulting groups, as I…
This is a guest post by Benedict Noel of Zombal. Many statisticians do a little bit of consulting in addition to their main job, and Zombal provides a way for people to find such work. Zombal: connecting freelancers with projects Zombal is an online marketplace for freelance work in the maths and sciences. Employers (aka “launchers” on Zombal) can post project listings for free, and candidates (aka ‘catchers’) bid to…
During the 2012 C.L. and M.D. Rustagi Memorial Lecture, Prof. Stephen E. Fienberg talked about “Statistics in Service to the Nation“. He started with posing one question, “who are the first ones to run a large scale Bayesian Hierarchical model in practice?” (he also gave one hint: not Jim berger ) With the picture shown [...]
