Some Rules of Consulting

Yesterday was the first meeting of UTSA’s Statistical Consulting class, and the instructor, Dr Stephanie Cano, had plenty of projects–with anxious clients attached–to assign.  Since I’m her sidekick in the university’s Statistical Consulting Center, I had the pleasure of presenting two of the project statements to the class, since I conducted the initial interviews with the clients.  Interesting stuff:  Family Influences on Study Abroad Participation among Hispanic Undergraduates, and Linguistic Prestige (Spanish vs English) in the Philippines.  I’m interested to see how these turn out.

Bloglines kicked up a very timely posting of Rules for Statistical Consulting, presented in a mini-symposium at Columbia University.  Tip from Andrew Gelman.