1. Will you do the statistical analysis for my dissertation or thesis for me?
2. Will you help me to do my statistics homework assignment?
3. Will you do my statistics homework assignment for me?
4. What distinguishes MatStat from other statistical consulting services?
5. How many billable hours will you take to do my work?
6. What's your hourly rate?
7. When do I pay for the work?
8. How do I pay for the work?
9. Do you do unbilled work?
10. What's the next step?
11. What should I send you?
12. How can I contact you?

1. Will you do the statistical analysis for my dissertation or thesis for me?

Yes. We offer the following services (all optional) to Ph.D. and M.A. students:

• Help you to design your research to maximize the chance that you will obtain meaningful results.
• Advise you on the logistics of collecting your data to ensure accuracy and to reduce effort.
• Perform appropriate statistical analyses of your data and send you the results (including the computer output).
• Write an easy-to-understand explanation of the statistical analyses we have performed. These explanations will help you to explain and justify the analyses to your advisor, supervisor, or committee.
• Write a formal discussion of the analyses and (when relevant) generate publication-quality tables and graphics. This material can be directly "pasted" into the Results section your dissertation or thesis.
• Read a draft of your dissertation, thesis, or proposal for logical rigor, completeness, and clarity of presentation. (We are very interested in clear writing.)

A key goal in the above work is to ensure that you have a proper high-level understanding of the statistical ideas.  We will show you how to achieve this understanding without the need for complicated mathematics.

2. Will you help me to do my statistics homework assignment?

Yes. We'll be pleased to give you hints to help you do your assignment and we'll be pleased to check your work and explain where you're right or wrong. (We're sorry, but we're too busy to give free homework help.)

3. Will you do my statistics homework assignment for me?

Sorry, no. We provide a tutoring service, not a homework service. 

4. What distinguishes MatStat from other statistical consulting services?

The key distinguishing feature of MatStat is that we focus on making the statistical ideas easy for you to understand.  We do this by discussing the statistical aspects of your work in easy-to-understand non-mathematical terms.  If you're willing to put in reasonable time studying the material we send you, we guarantee that you'll understand it.

5. How many billable hours will you take to do my work?

Here are some general estimates:

• An answer to a simple statistical question or a simple t-test or analysis of variance with minimal explanation of the computer output generally takes roughly one hour.
• The average amount of time we spend helping with the statistical aspects of a Ph.D. dissertation or thesis is around fourteen hours.
• The shortest amount of time we have spent on a full data analysis and explanation for a dissertation or thesis was four hours.

We would be pleased to send you an estimate for your work if you send us details about your project.

6. What's your hourly rate?

Our hourly student rate is fully competitive with other services offering statistics help to students. Please contact us to obtain our current rate.

7. When do I pay for the work?

The first hour's work is billed in advance to confirm that you can use our payment system.  All subsequent work is billed on delivery of the work to you. 

8. How do I pay for the work?

We ask students to pay for our services through PayPal, a trusted third-party payment processor that is a subsidiary of eBay.  PayPal payments to us can be charged to Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express credit cards.  Depending on your country of residence, PayPal may also allow you to make payments to us from your bank account.

Payments are easily made by means of a link that we send to you in an email.  When you're ready to pay you click on the link and you're taken to the PayPal web site where you can approve of the payment.

9. Do you do unbilled work?

With a few exceptions, once MatStat is hired all work on a client's behalf is billable.  Billable work includes correspondence, reading journal articles sent to MatStat by the client, and telephone conversations.  MatStat occasionally does unbilled work if the client's project or financial situation warrant such work.  If you think your project deserves unbilled assistance, please let us know. 

10. What's the next step?

We recommend that you write to us at info@matstat.com or phone us at 1-416-488-1990 and give us details about your project. We'll reply (without charge) with a proposal how we can help.

11. What should I send you?

Please consider sending copies of the following material (if applicable):

• A description of what you would like us to do.
• Any hints, suggestions, or recommendations you have been given by your advisor, supervisor, instructor, or committee members. (These will help us to ensure that your work includes what your evaluators would like to see.)
• Your dissertation or thesis proposal.
• Your research questions or research hypotheses if they aren't included in the other material you send. (If you don't have research questions or research hypotheses, we can help you to formulate them in accordance with your research interests.)
• Your department's or your institution's dissertation or thesis guidelines. (These guidelines sometimes contain important information about how your statistical analyses should be performed or reported.)
• The latest draft of your dissertation or thesis.
• Your data. (We can read most popular formats.)
• The text of your homework assignment (if you're looking for this type of help).
• Any other documents (e.g., journal articles) that might help us to help you. (It's better to send too much -- we will read selectively.)

12. How can I contact you?

Email:  info@matstat.com

MatStat Research Consulting Inc
1503 - 30 Greenfield Ave.
Toronto, ON M2N 6N3
Canada

Phone: 1-416-488-1990
Fax: 1-416-488-3746

Thank you for your interest in MatStat.