Email Consulting Service
The UCLA ATS Statistical Consulting Group offers email statistical consulting
services to UCLA faculty, staff and graduate students working on research
projects. The service is free of charge.
- Email address: Please send your email question to
. We request that questions not be sent to individual consultants.
- Response time: Emails questions are usually answered within 1-2 business days.
- Affiliation: If you are a member of the UCLA research community, but are sending your
question from a non-UCLA email account (e.g., hotmail, gmail, etc.), please be sure to indicate in your
email your affiliation with UCLA.
- Stat package: Please indicate which statistical package you are using (e.g., SAS,
Stata, SPSS, etc.). It is also often helpful if you include the
version of the software and the platform on which you are running the
software (e.g., Windows, Mac, etc.).
- Information to include: If you are having difficulty with a certain task, especially a data
management task, please be sure to include in your email:
- a clear description of the task that you are trying to accomplish
- the code that you used to accomplish this task
- the error message issued or the reason you believe the task was not
successfully accomplished.
- Files to include: If it helps explain your question or questions, you can include your data file,
program file and/or output file.
- If you send an output file, please also include the syntax that
generated the output (you can include that in the body of the email or as a
separate attachment).
- If you send a data file, please include only the relevant variables.
- Sample email questions:
- In my model, the interaction of a categorical variable and a
continuous variable is statistically significant. I would like to graph this two-way
interaction in SPSS. Could you tell me how to graph it in SPSS?
- I am using proc gplot in SAS. If I want to label my points, how do I
go about it?
- I am running xtmixed in Stata, how do I calculate the intraclass
correlation based on the output of the model?
- When to come to walk-in consulting: If you find yourself spending a long time writing an email question or if
you think it will take a long time to explain your situation/question, it usually means that
your question is too complicated for email consulting, and it might be time
to make a visit to our walk-in consulting. Please visit out
walk-in consulting page for walk-in consulting
hours and other related information. Please note that we cannot
provide assistance to undergraduate students or graduate students who are
working on homework, papers or projects for a class.
Other UCLA ATS Statistical Consulting Services
- Walk-in consulting: Please visit out walk-in consulting page for walk-in consulting
hours and other related information.
- Mailing list:
If you
join the ATSstat-L mailing list you will receive email
about 2-4 times per month announcing updates to the consulting schedule,
future classes and seminars, and updates to our web pages.
- Classes and Seminars: We have over 45 online seminars that
you can access 24/7 by visiting our
Classes and Seminars.
- Live seminars: presented Winter Quarter, 2008
- Writing Statistical Results, Tuesday, February 5 from 4-6 p.m. in MS
5628.
- Introduction to Power Analysis, Tuesday February 12 from 4-6 p.m. in
MS 5628.
- There’s Something About Statistics…and Data at the UCLA Library,
Wednesday, February 13 from 3-5 p.m. in the Research Library East
Electronic Classroom, YRL 21536.
- Stat Books for Loan: Books may be borrowed and returned
during our walk-in consulting hours. For a list of books available and
our lending policy, please see our Stat Books
for Loan page.
Other statistical consulting services on campus
UCLA Researchers are invited to our Statistical Consulting Services
We recommend others to our list of Other Resources for Statistical Computing Help
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