Statistical Consulting Unit
The Statistical Consulting Unit (SCU) provides statistical analysis and software support to faculty and students pursuing quantitative research projects, as well as professional data science services to professionals and researchers in Statesboro, Savannah, the state of Georgia and beyond.
Through these activities, we also provide practical educational and professional experience to students concentrating in statistics through training as statistical consultants.
Since its founding in 2005 under the direction of Dr. Broderick Oluyede (retired), the Statistical Consulting Unit (SCU) has achieved a significant record of outstanding service to faculty, staff and students of Georgia Southern University and has also assisted professionals and researchers in the surrounding areas of Statesboro and Savannah in Georgia and internationally with their quantitative analysis needs. The SCU has served as Co-PI on research grants, and has provided opportunity to both faculty and students in the department of Mathematical Sciences, for collaborative research with other departments and colleges, which has led to numerous scholarly papers and MS. thesis projects.
Request an Appointment
To request an appointment, complete the SCU service request form below. The schedule for statistical consulting upcoming sessions is also provided below.
Statistics Seminar
The Statistics Seminar, organized by SCU members is held on Fridays at 2:30 PM on the Statesboro Campus, Building Math/Physics, Room 3314, and also in Zoom.
| DATE | SEMINAR INFORMATION |
|---|---|
| February 24 | Ms. Ivy Collins (Graduate student) & Dr. Divine Wanduku (The inference in a stochastic process) |
| March 3 | Dr. Kyle Bradford. (Ergodic Theory) |
| March 10 | Dr. Emil Iacob (k-means clustering) |
| March 17 | SPRING BREAK |
| March 24 | Dr. Zheni Utic (Statistical and machine learning) |
| March 31 | Drs. Charles & Drew Process, Population, and Sample: The Researcher’s Interest |
| April 14 | Dr. Omid Ardakani Information-theoretic measures and copulas |
| April 21 | Dr. Arpita Chatterjee (Bayesian estimation methods- MCMC Metropolis Hastings or Gibbs sampler techniques) (Postponed to Fall 2023) |
Members
The SCU consists of a Director and eleven faculty members of the Statistics Group, from the Statesboro and Armstrong campuses; several associated faculty members from the Applied & Computational Mathematics groups; and associated members from the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environmental Health.
Director
- Divine Wanduku, Ph.D.
- Room: MP 3309
- Office #: 912-478-4728
- Email: dwanduku@georgiasouthern.edu
Other Core Members
- Charles Champ, Ph.D. (cchamp@georgiasouthern.edu),
- Stephen Carden, Ph.D. (scarden@georgiasouthern.edu),
- Kyle Bradford, Ph.D. (kbradford@georgiasouthern.edu),
- Arpita Chatterjee, Ph.D. (achatterjee@georgiasouthern.edu),
- Ionut Iacob, Ph.D. (ieiacob@georgiasouthern.edu),
- Andrew Sills, Ph.D. (asills@georgiasouthern.edu),
- Gregory Knofczynski, Ph.D. (gknofczynski@georgiasouthern.edu),
- Zheni Utic, Ph.D. (zutic@georgiasouthern.edu),
- Jared Schlieper, Ph.D. (jschlieper@georgiasouthern.edu),
- Alex Stokolos , Ph.D. (astokolos@georgiasouthern.edu).
Associated Members
- Hani Samawi, Ph.D. (hsamawi@georgiasouthern.edu),
- Jing X. Kersey, Dr. P. H. (jxkersey@georgiasouthern.edu ),
- John N. Dyer, Ph.D. (jdyer@georgiasouthern.edu),
- Omid M. Ardakani, Ph.D. (oardakani@georgiasouthern.edu ) ,
- Mariana Saenz, Ph.D. (msayala@georgiasouthern.edu ) .
Last updated: 1/7/2024