The Statistics Consulting Unit
The Statistics Consulting Unit operates within the Faculty of Natural Sciences under the academic supervision of the Department of Statistics. The unit was founded in 1988 in order to provide statistical support to both academic and nonacademic researchers. This includes methodological aspects such as research design, research instruments and sampling design, as well as practical aspects of data processing and statistical analysis.
Professor David Faraggi is Head of the Statistics Consulting Unit. The consulting staff is composed of members of the Statistics Department faculty.
Consulting services are provided to researchers and graduate students at the University of Haifa, as well as researchers and students from other academic institutions.
In addition, statistical consulting services are provided to off-academy research performed in various organizations, such as hospitals, industrial plants and more.
Consulting Process
Consulting is provided at any of the following steps as required by the researcher or student:
Research design: research tools construction, questionnaire revision, sample design and sample size calculations.
Sampling: random sampling from relevant databases using various sampling methods.
Data entry: manual typing or optical scanning of the collected data.
Data processing: using several statistical packages, such as SAS, R, SPSS and more designated software packages.
Statistical analysis: choosing the appropriate methodology and statistically testing the research hypotheses. The findings of the statistical analysis are reported using tabular and/or graphical presentation, as required.