Institute of Statistics and Data Mining

The Institute of Statistics and Data Mining provides statistical consulting support to graduate students, staff, and faculty members in all stages of their research projects. The Institute’s services include, but are not limited to, design of experiments and surveys, determination of sample sizes, formulation of hypotheses, selection of appropriate analysis using a variety of software packages, interpretation and evaluation of statistical results, preparation of statistical reports, and writing statistical methods and data analyses sections of research grant proposals as well as data management through the data mining lab. The Institute’s faculty members are available to work as co-investigators or statistical consultants on clients' grant proposals. The Institute also provides statistical support to various government agencies and private organizations. For a brief description of consulting activities of the Institute and research expertise of faculty members, please visit http://dms.stat.ucf.edu/. The consulting service is available to faculty members working on funded projects for a modest fee. Associate Professor David M. Nickerson is the Director of the Institute. However, other faculty members from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science are available for assisting clients.