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consulting Archive
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Promoting Your Consulting Business (Carefully) with Email
Email is one way to find clients for a new statistical consulting business, but they should be written carefully. If your emails are too strongly worded and sent too often, you may lose your audience or have your emails marked as spam.
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Statistical Consulting Clients: How to Get and Keep Them
If you’re a statistical consultant, or you want to be a statistical consultant, how will you build and maintain a client base? Melissa Kovacs offers six pieces of advice.
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Estimating Percent Effort
Many statisticians in American academic institutions have “soft money” appointments funded by a mutable portfolio of research grants. Śaunak Sen shares a few principles for estimating percent effort so statisticians can justify the number they propose to a collaborator.
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Why Be a Statistical Consultant?
Thinking about being a consultant? Mary Kwasny walks you through the perks and struggles of being a consultant and offers tips for getting started.
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Webinar: The Experiences of a Statistician in Industry
Don’t miss an upcoming webinar sponsored by the Statistical Consulting Section titled, “The Experiences of a Statistician in Industry.” The webinar registration is free for all ASA student members.
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Communicating Statistics to Nonstatisticians
It is not uncommon to have taken one or no courses that focus on communicating statistical knowledge to those who can benefit from it. In other words, many of us leave school with little understanding of how to put our skills into effective practice.
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Learning for a Living
When considering graduate programs in statistics, there is much to take into consideration—including learning.
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Communicating with Clients
During your career as a professional statistician, you will engage with numerous clients. Here, Robert Starbuck shares the important factors you should know to work with a client successfully.
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Service-Oriented Statistics: What Can Students Do?
Graduate students from Purdue discuss how involvement in nonprofit organizations can increase awareness of statistics and how statisticians can make positive contributions within local communities.