The UCLA OARC Statistical Method and Data Analytics group offers many services to UCLA researchers. Most of our services are provided free of charge.
The goal of the UCLA Statistical Consulting Group is to help UCLA faculty, staff, and graduate students perform top-notch research, with the greatest emphasis on data analysis related to grants and publications, but also including dissertation research. We provide advice and resources to enable you to develop and/or extend your statistical computing skills, helping you to independently use common statistical packages for the analysis of research data.
Please visit our services FAQ page for more information and examples of the services that we offer.
Fee-for-service collaborations
- The UCLA OARC Statistical Method and Data Analytics group can be hired to do data analysis for UCLA researchers on a fee-for-service basis. The researcher must be a faculty or staff member currently affiliated with UCLA and must have a grant or other funding
source with a full accounting unit (FAU). The process begins with an initial meeting (for which the client is not
charged) to discuss the research project, the proposed statistical methods, and the scope of the work.
If parties agree to participate in the project , then a Consulting Agreement is drawn up, including a
Scope of Work and a timeline. The minimum amount of time that can be allotted to a project is 10 hours. Project work can include:
- power analyses for grants
- research design and data collection
- data management
- descriptive data analysis and graphing
- statistical modeling and hypothesis testing
- creating publication-quality graphs
- editing methods and results sections describing the research
- assisting with reviewer comments.
Remote consulting
- Remote consulting: UCLA graduate students, staff and faculty are all welcome to come to our Zoom consultation hours, Mon-Tue 10AM-12PM and Wed-Thu 1AM-3PM. Consultations are first-come first-serve.
- Closures: Please see the Events calendar on our home page for remote consulting closures.
- Please see our page on remote consulting for details about this service.
- Appointments: We do not make appointments, except for UCLA faculty.
Email consulting
- Affiliation: Email consulting is available only to members of the UCLA research community: Faculty, staff researchers, post-docs, visiting scholars and graduate students. We regret that we are not able to assist researchers who are not currently affiliated with UCLA.
- UCLA Alumni: We are unable to provide consulting services to former UCLA students. Requests for assistance must come directly from the UCLA faculty member, and assistance will be provided directly to the UCLA researcher.
- Email address: Send your email question to oarcstat@ucla.edu, not to individual consultants.
- Response time: We will make our best effort to respond within 2-3 business days; however, due to the high volume of email questions it may take us longer to reply.
- Information to include:
Please include as many of the following below for the most efficient response:
- a clear description of the task that you are trying to accomplish
- the code that you used to accomplish this task or at least the software you are using
- the error message issued or the reason you believe the task was not successfully accomplished.
- the data, if shareable
- Appropriate questions: Email consultation is designed for questions whose solutions can be expressed in a succinct email. More complex questions may require in-person consultations such as through remote consulting.
Workshops and classes
- See our Workshops and classes page for upcoming workshops and links to all web pages associated with workshops.
- Many of our workshops have been recorded, and the videos are available on OARC’s YouTube page
FAQ
- What kinds of questions do your services address?
- Research design questions
- Power analysis
- Data management
- Statistical analysis
- Data visualization
- Interpretation and reporting of analyses
- Are there labs on campus (UCLA) where I can do my statistical computing? Yes. CLICC has virtual desktops you can log into with SAS, Stata, SPSS, Mplus, and more installed.
- Where can I purchase statistical software as a UCLA researcher? Software Central has worked to arrange discounted pricing for many of the statistical packages we use (including SAS, SPSS, SUDAAN).