For CMH employees only: Statistical Consulting Services.

You can get free statistical consulting if you work for Children's Mercy Hospital. Steve Simon and Ashley Sherman provide a wide range of statistical consulting services to help you with your research projects. This help can start as early as the initial planning of your research. I also help with the analysis of your data, using SPSS or other statistical software. We can also provide assistance with the preparation of your presentations and publications.

Here area some examples of the services that we have provided:

• setting up your research hypothesis,
• selecting and justifying your sample size,
• writing the statistical methods section for your grant,
• preparing randomization tables for your study,
• reviewing your surveys for content and quality,
• developing a system for entering your data,
• choosing an appropriate statistical model for your data,
• establishing validity and/or reliability for your measurement scales,
• checking for violations of statistical assumptions in your data,
• producing graphs and tables for your research publication, and
• providing references for new and unusual statistical methods.

Specific statistical advice has been outlined on a series of web pages which can be found at http://www.childrensmercy.org/stats/. The pages provide advice about planning your research, selecting an appropriate sample size, managing your research data, performing a variety of data analyses, presenting research data, and writing research papers.

How to get in touch with a statistician

If you would like to meet with Steve Simon or Ashley Sherman, you can set up an appointment by emailing or calling Judy Champion (jmchampion (at) cmh (dot) edu or 816-983-6784). If you have a very simple question, send an email directly to us (ssimon (at) cmh (dot) edu and aksherman (at) cmh (dot) edu).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. It was written by Steve Simon on 2003-04-30, edited by Steve Simon, and was last modified on 2010-04-01. Send feedback to ssimon at cmh dot edu or click on the email link at the top of the page. Category: Professional details