Dec 17 2007
Consulting
When is the best time to bring in a statistician? Before you begin collecting any data. I’ll be happy to talk to you, free of charge for the first consultation, to explore the best way you can go about answering the questions you have. My emphasis is on understanding, on reducing complexity of results, and on finding simple, clear pictures to show your audience what you want to say.
I have been involved in just about every kind of statistical analyses under the sun (some on and beyond the sun, too: see my resume). Please feel free to contact me about any questions you have about uncertainty, probability, the best places to get steak and kidney pie in New York City, and statistics at matt@wmbriggs.com.
Here are just some of the things that I can do for you:
| Custom Analysis | Any and all kinds of data analysis, including—especially including—advice on how to and what data to collect. I’ll help put your data in the best light possible and to fully understand the uncertainty inherent in the situtation. I offer unique, original, clever analyses that you won’t find in too many places. |
| Data mining | Advice, custom code, automatic code, web-based data analysis systems, graphical analysis and data display. See my resume for past experience in this area. |
| Survey design & analysis | The best time to contact me is before you begin. I’ll help avoid the common mistakes so that you do not feel despair after the data is collected. |
| Weather and climate insurance | See my white paper on this topic. |
| Research design & analysis | This includes the standard sample size and “power” analyses, but also, and much more importantly the deisgn of experiments. I cannot tell you how many times people have come to me after they have run their experiment, only to discover that the questions they wanted answered cannot be answered with the data they have collected. |
| Forecasting and forecast analysis | Attention stock pickers, money managers, business forecasters. Forecast analysis? Yes, sir. If you are, right now, making use of predictions, forecasts, prognostications, etc., you owe it to yourself to discover how good these models are. Could you be making more money by modifying your forecast? |
| Business intelligence | The whole gamut of marketing research: Q-sort, (I’ll try to talk you out of) factor analysis, custom code, custom design of computer systems, and on and on. |
| Bayesian modeling | This is it. The most modern, sophisticated form of data analysis available. If you’ve been keeping track of my blog, you’ll see the hundreds of reasons why this is not only the better kind of analysis, but the proper one, too. Feel free to call or write and ask questions. |
| Training | Click over to my Lectures page to see the broad range of training, seminars, lectures, and tutoring I offer. |
Privacy
All data is securely stored and no results are ever shared with anybody except the clients. Client names, unless permission is given, are also kept confidential.
