Resources Available within the Department of Statistics

The Department of Statistics is involved in research, teaching, and statistical consulting for the entire university. Because of its activities, the collaborative work with other disciplines gives graduate students a wide range of opportunities to work with individuals in these disciplines and to learn practical applications of statistical principles from direct experience.

The department’s faculty represents a wide variety of backgrounds and interests. Areas of specialty include: statistics for ecology and the environment, survey statistics, statistics in sports, biological science, and statistics for spatial variability. In addition, all of the faculty are involved in developing new procedures, often taking advantage of new computing technologies, to make experiments and surveys more informative, less costly, or both.

SAS Training and Technical Assistance

The department's technical staff provides training and technical assistance in the use of statistical programming languages such as SAS, R, SPSS, and S-Plus. A two day training course in the use and programming of SAS is offer at the start of Spring and Fall Semesters. Our technical staff is available for consulting on statistical programming, data entry, and manipulation.

Statistical Consulting and Helpdesk

Statistical consulting is available to the students, faculty and staff of the University of Nebraska. The statistics helpdesk is available to help with your data analysis, and interpretation of statistical results. The helpdesk is located in Hardin Hall North, Room 355, Click here to check availability. Statistical questions can be submitted to our helpdesk by filling out the form on our Helpdesk web page.

Technical Reports/Publications

Yearly technical publications are available for viewing here.