Harvard Statistics Consulting Service

The Department of Statistics offers free, drop-in consulting on statistical issues arising in research to anyone in the Harvard Community.

 

Under the supervision of a faculty member, statistics Ph.D. students will offer assistance on statistical issues arising in all forms of data analysis and interpretation of results, including but not limited to: 

  • Causal Inference
  • Experimental Design
  • Classification and Prediction (Machine Learning)
  • Statistical Issues Arising from 'Big Data' Sets
  • Time Series
  • Model Fitting
  • Data Visualization

Participants are encouraged to seek advice early on in their research but are welcome at all stages. Please be prepared with data, prior analyses, and any other relevant material when dropping in.

Note that this service is for statistical issues (e.g., framing a scientific question as a statistical hypothesis, choosing an appropriate statistical method, or even choosing the fastest computational method for deploying that method) and we do not provide assistance on pure programming issues (e.g., your code is throwing an error and you don't know why, or you don't know how to run the hypothesis test you've chosen in Stata).

Schedule and Location

Spring 2024 Drop-in Hours (all times shown are in the Eastern Time Zone): (the first consulting session of the semester will be Monday, January 29, 2024)

Mondays 1:00pm - 3:00pm (Science Center, room 400N)
Tuesdays 1:00pm - 3:00pm (Science Center, room 400N)
Fridays 1:00pm - 3:00pm (Science Center, room 400N)

Zoom sessions (within the above times) can be arranged on request by emailing yufan_li@g.harvard.edu. Please also direct any questions to this email address.

Consulting sessions are held on a weekly basis during the fall and spring semesters. They will begin on the second week of the semester. Sessions will not be held on the first week of the semester, during the summer, reading periods, finals weeks, and university holidays. See the Harvard FAS Academic Calendar for exact dates. The final consulting drop-in hours of the Spring 2024 semester will be held on Tuesday, April 23, 2024.