STAT 6700 - Statistical Consulting Practicum

Applied statisticians typically work in collaboration with professionals in other fields. The course is designed to train students to be statistical consultants by giving them the opportunity to consult on real research projects with professionals in other fields. The main goals of this course are to: 1) integrate and apply theoretical knowledge acquired in the filed of statistics to real-life problems, and 2) develop communication skills, written and verbal, necessary for effective statistical consulting. Students taking this course provide consulting service to graduate students, university staff and faculty, and researchers on campus on the following areas: Design of Experiments, Regression Methods, Categorical Data Analysis, Survival Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, Statistical Software Support, Data Analysis and Interpretation of Results, Statistical Computation and Graphics, and others.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STAT 5680 or STAT 5670 or other upper level statistics course.

Credits 3 hrs.

Notes:
Open to Graduate Students Only.