Welcome to the Statistical Consulting Center. My office is located at 115 Howe Library.

Contact Information

Maria Sckolnick
Location:	Howe Library, Room 115
Phone:	802-656-2009
Email:	maria.sckolnick@uvm.edu

 

Consulting

Walk-in hours Please note: New walk-in hour schedule for 2024 For quick help with short questions regarding statistical analysis, stop by during walk-in hours. No appointment is needed. Howe Library, Room 115: Wednesdays, 10:30 - 12:30 pm. Dana Health Sciences Library, Conference Room: Thursdays, 2:00 - 4:00 pm.

Appointments Researchers requiring more time or a different time to discuss the statistical analysis needs of their project can seek an appointment for a virtual or in-person consultation. Howe library: Schedule Appointment Dana Health Sciences Library:  Schedule Appointment Online: Schedule Appointment Cannot find a time that works? Please fill out the  Request for assistance form

 

Statistical Software Support and Consulting Services are available to students, postdocs, and researchers at UVM.

I provide help with:

• Data management (formatting, coding, screening)
• Experimental design
• Survey design
• Selection of appropriate statistical methodology
• Help with power and sample size calculations
• Interpretation of results of analyses
• Assistance in responding to reviewers' comments
• Installation/licensing of statistical software packages (for technical issues please contact the ETS help desk)
• Programming assistance

Assistance is available at all stages of your research. You are encouraged to contact a consultant at the beginning of your study. First consultations typically last from 30 minutes to one hour. Follow-up consultations are usually necessary.

These services are provided free. Services include guidance on and discussion of the best statistical approach as well as help with trouble shooting and interpretation. Students have unlimited access to these services. For all others there is a limit of 10 sessions per semester. For researchers seeking complete analyses by a statistician, please contact the Biomedical Statistics Research Core.

Don't know where to start? Check out this summary on how to approach statistical analysis of research data.

 

Workshops

I offer workshops on a variety of statistical topics. Come to my next Random Chat about Data, or contact me for workshop requests.

 

Currently Supported Statistical Software

Support is provided for the following programs/packages (in order of decreasing expertise):

• SAS
• R
• IBM SPSS Statistics
• GraphPad Prism
• Stata
• JMP

 

Licensing Information

For SAS licensing and installation info: contact Maria Sckolnick including your netID in the email message. There is no charge for a SAS license.

Licensing info for other statistical packages:

UVM affiliates can download the latest versions and find licensing information for IBM SPSS Statistics, JMP, GraphPad Prism, and Stata from UVM's software download portal.

Installation instructions for SPSS and JMP are provided on the Enterprise Technology Services Website:

SPSS

JMP Pro

 

Additional Resources

UVM Department of Mathematics & Statistics

SAS Institute, Inc.

IBM SPSS

R Project

Stata Corp.

GraphPad Software

JMP Software

American Statistical Association

Raynald's SPSS Tools

SAS Version 9 Documentation Outline

The Dartmouth Institute Area SAS Users Group