Weekly Schedule for In Person Consultations (by appointment only)
In Person Consultations (Click HERE to schedule an appointment.)
Weekly Schedule for In Person Consultations (by appointment only)
(Subject to change. Click HERE for consultant bios. For questions related to SEM, please do not schedule an appointment during the Basic Stats hours.)
Below are the consulting hours for Summer 2013. You can reserve a spot up to one week in advance. If you try to schedule an appointment and there are none available, it is because all spots for next 7 days have been reserved.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 10:00AM - 12:00PM | Stats - Amen | Stats - Amen | |||
| 12:30PM - 2:30PM | |||||
| 3:00PM - 5:00PM | Stats - Amen |
In Person Consultations
Location: 2.104 W. C. Hogg Building
NOTE: All in-person consulting is BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.
Click HERE to Schedule an Appointment.
For more information about the consultants that handle each shift, click HERE.
Appointment Cancellations
If you need to cancel an appointment, please contact us immediately so that others may take advantage of the unused time slot. You may cancel appointments by either contacting our office at 232-0693 or sending an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please provide your name and the time slot you are canceling.
Email Consultations
Click This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to e-mail the statistics consultants.
Most e-mails will be answered within one working day (messages received on Friday will not be answered until Monday). If you have multiple questions or complex questions, please schedule an in-person appointment rather than sending e-mail. If you do send multiple e-mails within a week, it may be several days before we can respond.
Free Consulting Policies
We provide the following guidelines and information to facilitate the use of our services as well as to detail what researchers can expect, and what is expected of them, when using our free statistical consulting services.
What We Do
SSC consultants can help you design your study, select an appropriate statistical procedure, identify the various parts of your output, or interpret results. We can also recommend site-licensed statistical software for your own personal computer, help you select the best package for your task, locate documentation, and interpret error messages. Due to the demand for free consulting services, we can provide a maximum of 1 hour a week of free consulting – either by e-mail or appointment.
How to Prepare
For initial consultations, be prepared to describe in detail your research questions and objectives and the characteristics of your expected data set (if applicable). If you are in the process of analyzing your data, you are encouraged to bring an electronic copy of your data or have it available from Webspace so that we may demonstrate procedures in a familiar data setting.
Whom We Can Help
Consulting services are limited to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Texas at Austin. Eligible student research includes undergraduate honors theses, master theses or reports, dissertations, and articles for publication. We can also help instructors by providing brief classroom presentations to introduce statistical software..
Help We Can Provide
We assist UT students, staff, and faculty with research oriented inquiries. Our role is to assist, rather than to conduct analyses for you. We prefer to meet with researchers near the beginning of their projects but are available for discussion at all stages of research, including the following:
- Research design
- Survey design
- Power and sample-size calculations
- Data management (data manipulation, formatting, coding)
- Selection of appropriate statistical procedures
- Selection and use of statistical software
- Data analysis and model selection
- Interpretation and reporting results
- Locating documentation and resources
- Creating graphs and tables
- Interpretation of error messages
Types of Help We Cannot Provide
- Homework assignments or course projects
- Tutoring services for a course
- General inquiries about a statistical topic (tutoring)
- Requiring language translation
- To individuals outside of UT-Austin
- Projects involving non-disclosure agreements, involving classified information, related to or likely to be involved in litigation, related to current partisan political campaigns (surveys and polling for a particular candidate, etc.) or commercial projects
- Software installation and licensing (If you need assistance with software installation please see our FAQs or contact the ITS helpdesk at 475-9400 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .)
- Requiring more than one hour of consulting per week (Consider obtaining a contract, which will allow us to provide you with more intensive assistance.)