Statistical Consulting Service

This is an old, out-of-date page, maintained only for historical purposes. Please go to: http://www.isr.yorku.ca/scs/

About SCS	Consulting services	Seminar Series	Web Resources
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The Statistical Consulting Service at York

The Statistical Consulting Service (SCS) at York University in Toronto is affiliated with York's Institute for Social Research, and with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Arts. The mandate of SCS is to assist faculty, students and staff at York with research that employs statistical methods.

The central goals of SCS are:

to facilitate our clients' research
to improve the quality of their work by providing expert statistical advice
to help our clients learn more about the statistical methods (including statistical computer programs) that they employ in their work
to provide training and experience in statistical consulting for graduate students
to serve as a focus for research and training in quantitative methods at York and in the larger community

SCS Activities

Consulting services

Consulting services and schedule
To see a consultant:
- use our Online Appointment Scheduler via AppointmentQuest.com. Please contact Rob Cribbie if you have any difficulties with this new service.

Short courses

SCS offers non-credit short courses three times a year on the use of statistical software (including SAS and SPSS), and on a variety of topics related to statistical analysis. In the Spring session, additional courses related to sample and questionnaire design, survey research and other topics are offered by the Institute for Social Research. Click below for information about our current short courses.

2003-04 Fall 2003 Winter 2004 Spring 2004

2004-05 Fall 2004 Winter 2005 Spring 2005

Course fees Registration form

Course tutorials

York faculty can also arrange for SCS to supply instruction to university classes on the use of SAS and SPSS. Please contact the SCS Coordinator.

Seminar Series

SCS also hosts an informal seminar series and discussion group for faculty and SCS staff on topics of current interest. In 2003-2004 our topic was History of Statistics and Data Visualization.

In 2002-2003 our topic was Bayesian Methods in Statistics. In 2001-2002 we considered Structural Equations Models. In 1999-2000 the series was devoted to Hierarchical Models.

In addition, a three-week Spring Seminar Series is presented annually in conjunction with the Institute for Social Research on topics relating to social research methods.

SCS Staff

Michael Friendly, Coordinator
John Fox, Associate Coordinator
Georges Monette, Associate Corrdinator and Consiglieri
Robert Cribbie, Associate Coordinator
Augustine Wong, Associate Consultant
Ernest Kwan, Graduate Assistant
Colleen Bowers, Graduate Assistant
Laura Friedlander, Graduate Assistant
Lisa Fiksenbaum, Graduate Assistant
Mirka Ondrack, Statistical Consultant
Bryn Greer-Wootten, Associate Coordinator
Peggy Ng, Associate Consultant
Peter Peskun, Associate Consultant
Barry Smith, Associate Consultant
Oren Amitay, Graduate Assistant

The current curator of this page is:

Michael Friendly Email: friendly@yorku.ca

This URL: http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/

2003-04	Fall 2003	Winter 2004	Spring 2004
2004-05	Fall 2004	Winter 2005	Spring 2005