Statistical Consultations

The Stats Support office provides a statistical consultation service to all registered postgraduate students. The service provides guidance on selection and utilisation of appropriate design and methods for collection and statistical analysis of data. The sessions are held through MS Teams.

The support provided covers all phases of the research

Research design phase

Support provided:

• Guidance on appropriate research design to address the research questions of the study.
• Sample selection strategy and sample size estimation to ensure that the sample is sufficient to address the objectives project/study
• Guidance on appropriate data collection strategy
• Questionnaire and data analysis plan review

Pre-requisites:

• Proof registration
• Draft proposal
• Completed consultation form
  
  

Data collection phase

Support provided:

• Questionnaire review if not already done at research design phase
• Check that all the variables of interest in the study are correctly measured
• Ensure that the data collection instrument is designed to enhance data management

Pre-requisites:

• Proof registration
• Proposal
• Draft questionnaire
• Completed consultation form

Data capturing

Support provided:

• Practical data capture demonstration in SPSS to ensure that data is captured in a manner that facilities data analysis

Pre-requisites:

• Proof registration
• Ethical clearance certificate
• Proposal
• Questionnaire
• Completed consultation form
• Have SPSS installed on your computer - Click here for software download

Data analysis

Support provided

• Practical SPSS data analysis session(s) on implementation of appropriate data analysis methods in line with the research objectives
• Assistance with correct interpretation and presentation of results

Pre-requisites:

• Proof registration
• Ethical clearance certificate
• Proposal
• Questionnaire
• Data
• Completed consultation form
• Have SPSS installed on your computer - Click here for software download

Platform: MS Teams

It is recommended that the statistician is consulted from the research design stage of a project.

“To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post-mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of”. Ronald Fisher

Forms 

Statistical consultation

• Statistical support consultation application form

SPSS download

• SPSS licence agreement form