Statistical and Research Consulting

Providing Advanced Assistance with Statistical and Research Software and Projects
Statistical consulting is provided to faculty, staff and graduate students by request.  Advising on modeling directions, analyzing data, creating presentation quality graphical dsiplays and assistance in documenting the results are provided.  In addition, Statistical consulting is available for the following:
  • Faculty grant proposals with a research design component
  • Staff projects requiring data analysis or gathering
  • Graduate Students needing guidance for the statistical analysis portion of their dissertation

SMU licenses many research software applications for use by portions of the SMU Community.  These applications include the following: SAS, SPSS, SPLUS, R, Stata, HLM,Eviews, Mathematica, MatLab, Maple, GAMS, NAG, ArcView, Xwin-32, and Putty.  To request licensing information or software installation, please contact the IT Help Desk.

About Statistical Consulting

Consulting is provided by Shirlene Pearson, PhD.  All services are free of charge. To request assistance on a project, please contact:

N. Shirlene Pearson, PhD
Statistical & Research Support
Fondren Library West, Room 101AB
(214)768-3034
pearson@smu.edu
Curriculum Vita