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Biostatistics Consulting Service

 

As part of their training all Master's degree students are required to spend one semester (2 hours a week) serving a Biostatistics Consulting Practicum and Doctoral Students are required to spend one semester. Students receive one academic credit for each semester.

    In taking the Consulting Practicum the student will:

  1. Learn general strategies for approaching consulting problems that can be applied to a wide range of problems in the public health and medical areas.
  2. Develop the ability to interact with clients and elicit the information required to provide consulting expertise.
  3. Learn the role of the consulting statistician and the accompanying responsibilities and ethical considerations.
  4. Further develop expertise in selected areas frequently needed by the consulting biostatistician.

    Each student taking the course spends two hours/week providing consultation to faculty and students in the Graduate School of Public Health and other schools in the Medical Center. Weekly sessions are held between the faculty instructor and all students taking the course to review and discuss the problems brought to the consulting service the previous week.

Department of Biostatistics
Statistical Consulting Service

Offered by the Department of Biostatistics
Provided by Graduate Students in Biostatistics under Faculty Supervision

 AREAS WHERE STATISTICAL ADVICE COULD BENEFIT YOUR RESEARCH:
  • Design Stage
    - operational formulation of your research question
    - study design
    - sample size
  • Data Collection Stage
    - forms design
    - data management
  • Analysis Stage
    - data descriptives
    - appropriate statistical methods
    - interpretation of results and computer output

FOR AN APPOINTMENT* OR FURTHER INFORMATION
CALL (412)624-3023

Appointments assigned on a first-come first-serve basis

Days:      Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday
Hours:    10:00a.m. - 12:00noon, By Appointment
Location:  309D Parran Hall, Graduate School of Public Health

*Services are Offered Free of Charge

For a printable PDF version click here: Consulting

 

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Registrar, biostat@pitt.edu

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Department of Biostatistics, 130 Desoto Street, 311 Parran Hall,
Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Phone: (412) 624-3022 Fax: (412) 624-2183

Revised on January 11, 2005