UNI Statistical Consulting - Fall 2009

UNI Department of Mathematics provides assistance through its Statistical Consulting Lab (SCL), offering a free source of statistical support for routine data analyses to UNI students, faculty and staff.

Contact Mark Jacobson at 3-7172 or jacobson@cs.uni.edu to set up an appointment.
See http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/SCL for short courses schedule (SPSS, Minitab, SAS).

SCL (Statistical Consulting Lab) - UNI

Need help analyzing your data?

The Mathematics Department at the University of Northern Iowa has reconstituted its Statistical Consulting Lab (SCL), starting February 1, 2006 and running until at least mid-June 2010.
The SCL will provide a free source of statistical support for a routine data analyses and is available to UNI students, faculty and staff. Larger, more time consuming projects would be billed at reasonable rates.
Contact Mark Jacobson, the director of the SCL, at 273-7963 or jacobson@cs.uni.edu to set up your appointment. Email is strongly preferred over leaving phone messages.

SPSS -- SPSS Short Course - Linear Regression will be the focus - 
  
This is an introductory class, no experience required.

Location: Wright 110 teaching computer lab

Two times to choose from:  Nov 17th - Tuesday, 9:30 a.m.
                           Nov 17th - Tuesday  6:00 p.m.
  
This is a BEGINNING COURSE that familiarizes users with basic techniques 
in SPSS for data processing tasks.  It is a starting point for those who 
want to use SPSS as their primary tool for data analysis and data management. 
It will focus on Linear Regression.

No prior experience with SPSS is assumed.

We will also generally have time for some statistical procedure 
examples, such as Crosstabs and Chi Square compared to Linear 
Regression.

Please email jacobson@cs.uni.edu if you want to be added to the mailing list for all short courses or for SPSS or SAS or Minitab short courses.

SPSS STATISTICS SHORT COURSE: Wright 110 computer lab. Time and date to be announced. (Probably Late Sept and early October times to choose from for Part I of class).

There will be two separate classes needed to cover the following topics, but each course will be independent of the other.

Learn about preparing data for SPSS with Excel, linear regression, ANOVA, correlation, chi square and crosstabs, value and variable labels, scatterplots, etc. How do I visualize (chart or plot or graph) my data with SPSS? How do you do Regression and ANOVA with SPSS? How do you understand the statistical output? Comparing means with Independent Samples T-Test, etc.

This class covers is a class for beginners.

E-mail Mark Jacobson at jacobson@cs.uni.edu with questions or if you wish to RSVP.

SPSS SHORT COURSE:
Learn about exporting data for Excel to SPSS, recoding variables, creating new variables, chi-square, t-test, regression and ANOVA.

This class is suitable for beginners in statistics and statistical software.

E-mail Mark Jacobson at jacobson@cs.uni.edu with questions or if you wish to RSVP or be added to a short course email list.
There will also be several short courses on SAS and Minitab offered in the fall semester of 2009. I will be sending out email notices about the short courses, so PLEASE drop an email to jacobson@cns.uni.edu if you wish to be added to the list for SAS or SPSS short courses.
Have a specific topic from SPSS, SAS, Minitab, R, SPlus or Excel that you would like covered in a short course?
Let me know the topic and a class can be arranged for covering that topic, or we can meet and cover it by appointment. I will be glad to teach a statistical software skill for a group or a class too.

   Office hours at the (SCL) Statistical Consulting Lab in WRT 338A 
          will be

       BY APPOINTMENT ONLY is highly recommended over drop-in.
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         To Be Announced
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   Please always try to set up a scheduled appointment whenever possible
to ensure availability of that time you wish to stop by.

    Appointments almost ANYTIME, including weekends and evenings are no
       problem and will be arranged.

Please send email to jacobson@cs.uni.edu or call 273-7172 to register for SAS or SPSS short courses, to set up an appointment or to get more information.

(Email is preferable to phone messages).

Statistical Consulting Lab (SCL) will offer an introductory
    SAS short course in WRT 110 computer lab at these times:

    9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Oct 20;

    5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct 20; and

    3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 21.

E-mail Mark Jacobson at jacobson@cs.uni.edu to for more information.

UNI Statistical Consulting - Fall 2009

SCL (Statistical Consulting Lab) - UNI

Please email jacobson@cs.uni.edu if you want to be added to the mailing list for all short courses or for SPSS or SAS or Minitab short courses.

SAS 810:121 - SAS for 800:121 class - October 20th, 2009.