Services for
Students

Our Goal

Our
Experience

How To
Reach Us

The Introductory
Statistics Course

Sums of Squares
in Unbalanced
Analysis of
Variance

If you are experienced in statistical methods, we offer a careful review of the efficiency of your planned research. (We can sometimes suggest useful improvements.) We also offer help in analyzing your research results, help in writing exemplary research reports, and help in writing effective grant applications. Our services are listed in more detail below.

If you are less experienced, we offer the above services along with careful explanations that remove the intimidating aspects of statistics. We have a deep appreciation of the difficulty many people have understanding the use of statistics in research.

Services for Researchers

We can work with you to

• design a cost-efficient scientific research project that is capable of decisive conclusions
• analyze data from a scientific research project using optimal statistical methods to obtain sound and comprehensive conclusions
• prepare an exemplary scientific research report or grant application with easy-to-understand discussion and graphics.

Services for Students

We enjoy helping students to understand how statistical principles are used in scientific research. Most of our student work involves helping (via e-mail or telephone) with the statistical aspects of research for a student's Ph.D. or M.A. thesis or dissertation. Answers to frequently asked questions about MatStat services for students are available here.

Our Goal

Our goal is to make statistics easy for you. (We generally succeed.)

Our Experience

Donald Macnaughton, the president of MatStat, earned a four-year B.A. from the University of Toronto and then (to satisfy his interests) returned as a special undergraduate student to take more undergraduate courses. He spent nine years altogether taking courses in statistics, experimental psychology, computing, engineering science, logic, education, and philosophy. During the seventh year he began providing statistical consulting services to some of his psychology professors. He left university in 1975 and since then has worked at studying, consulting in, and writing about the use of statistics in scientific research. His main interest is in making statistical concepts easier for users of statistics to understand.

He has managed the statistical aspects of research in the fields of experimental psychology, zoology, drug dependence, nursing, education, business, geography, physical education, and inmate rehabilitation. He has given talks at statistical meetings and published Internet articles about improving the introductory statistics course and about the mathematics and philosophy of unbalanced analysis of variance. He holds memberships in the American Statistical Association, the International Association for Statistical Education, and the Statistical Society of Canada.

How To Reach Us

Please call or write for a free consultation. By telephone we are at (North America) 1-416-488-1990 and by e-mail at info@matstat.com