CSULB Statistical Consulting Group

About Us

Mission Statement

The Statistical Consulting Group (SCG) has three complementary core objectives:

• To provide graduate students in the CSULB Applied Statistics program work experience with real-life data and projects.
• To serve the CSULB community by providing statistical advising and support.
• To provide statistical consulting services to businesses and governmental agencies and to foster ties with them.
   

Who We Are

The Statistical Consulting Group (SCG) at Cal State Long Beach is made up of seven faculty of the Mathematics and Statistics Department and graduate assistants from the Applied Statistics Program. Dr. Baldi is the SCG director and can be contacted at statgroup@csulb.edu or directly at bbaldi@csulb.edu.

Our faculty are statistical experts in a number of applications:

Sample Case Studies

Thesis / Dissertation Consulting
Statistical consulting for a Ph.D. dissertation in Psychology. Statistical hypotheses were clarified and the data prepared for a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). The graduate student was coached in technical writing of statistical results and usage of SPSS software.

Faculty Research
Statistical consulting for a CSULB Linguistics faculty. Research objectives were clarified and a statistical approach was determined before data collection. The data were later analyzed using three-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for independent and for repeated measures.

Data Mining of Hourly Power Costs
Analysis of hourly wholesale power costs for a regional power purchasing distribution facility in order to identify patterns of cost variations and create practical time tables for power management and pricing. Inferential statistics and data mining techniques were used on this very large database.

Sample Size Analysis for Biomedical Company
Researched accepted methodologies to evaluate a device's sensitivity. A Bayesian methodology was used to compute the sample size required to accept or reject the hypothesis.

Energy Predictions for a Corporation
Estimation of future diesel fuel prices for an international manufacturer. Government and non-government data sources were searched to create a database of likely influential variables used in a multiple regression analysis and a preliminary time series analysis to find the best predictive model.

Survey Questionnaire Design and Analysis
Survey questionnaire design and analysis for a local government agency. SCG created the questionnaire, scanned the filled forms, analyzed the data and provided a actionable report based on survey findings.

Tutoring for a Graduate-Level Statistics Course
"The tutorial help provided by the SCG (Mr. Koch, in particular) was fabulous. I could have never survived my quantitative statistics class for my doctoral program without the amazing guidance of my tutor. His patience and ability to explain difficult concepts in simple terms was truly the only way I passed (and even received an A) in the class." J. Ruehl, Ph.D. candidate.

To contact SCG, email us at statgroup@csulb.edu or call us at (562)985-5608. We are located in building FO3 room 232 on campus. (Directions to campus and SCG in building FO3.)