Quantitative / Statistics
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH & STATISTICS
The Odum Institute offers consulting services covering all stages of research involving quantitative data, which is numerical data collected for the purpose of revealing broader trends in a population or group, and typically analyzed using statistics.
Areas covered include research design, data management, statistical analysis, network data analysis, text analysis and more. Our consultants can also assist with formatting reports and creating publication-ready tables and graphs.
Full-time Consulting Staff
If, after meeting with our online consultants, you require support more in-depth consulting, full-time quantitative research consulting staff members — listed below — are available to offer consultations for theses, dissertations, grant proposals, publications and other research requirements.
Short consultations are available free-of-charge to UNC students, faculty and staff, while more in-depth assistance and support is provided on a cost-reimbursement basis.
To request a consultation with any of our consultants, please call or email them using the information listed below.
- Basic Univariate & Bivariate Statistics
- Categorical/Limited Dependent Variable Regression Models
- Experimental design and analysis of variance
- Generalized Linear Model
- Hierarchical Linear Modeling or Mixed Models
- Item Response Theory
- Survival Analysis
- Weighting Survey Data
- Power and Sample Size
- Survey Data (Complex Sampling Design) Analysis
- Data visualization & presentation
- Optimization Methods (EM, Newton-Raphson)
Software:
- SAS
- Stata
- SPSS
Graduate Part-time Stats Desk Help
Online Statistical Support
Advanced graduate students are available to answer your statistical analysis and programing questions Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during the hours noted in the schedule below. We offer both in-person and online assistance.
For IN-PERSON assistance, please visit us at the Odum Institute in Davis Library room 228B, Wednesdays, 9am – 12pm (Micah).
ONLINE assistance is available Tuesday and Thursday, 9am-5pm. Use the zoom links below to access the virtual helpdesk.
9am – 1pm: https://go.unc.edu/StatsMicah
1pm – 5pm: https://go.unc.edu/StatsSteven
Graduate Part-time Stats Desk Help
Steven Saroka– Tuesday/Thursday 1pm-5pm
Political Science
R, Python, Regression (OLS and GLM), Data Visualization in R, data sets used by political scientists studying international relations, especially those relating to conflict and terrorism
Micah Nelson – Tuesday/Thursday 9am-1pm
Wednesday drop-in 9am-12pm Davis Library room 228B
Sociology
R, Stata, Mplus, Regression (OLS and GLM), Data Visualization, Structural Equation Modeling, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Causal Inference Using Observational Data
Data Collection
Odum can help with quantitative data collection, including survey design and implementation, as well as assistance with database setup and uses. For more information on our survey design and implementation support, please visit our survey page.