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Showing posts with label dissertation. Show all posts
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Monday, January 7, 2013

Dissertation Chairs as Head Chefs



Dissertation chairpersons should be like head chefs—directing the doctorate student (the line cook) and the rest of the prep-chefs in the kitchen (i.e., the committee members).  But too often, the head chef defers his or her responsibility to the committee members (methodologists, statisticians members, or others).  This is very confusing for dissertation students as too often committee members want different things, in different orders, with different emphases.  Do you know what happens in a kitchen when prep-chefs have no leader?  You got it, the entire meal is uncoordinated and it doesn’t go together.  For dissertation students, this means frustration, more time in school, more tuition, and sitting on wonderful ingredients with no meal plan.  

While there was a lot of frustration in my own Ph.D. tenure, mostly because there were lots of dogmatic prep-chefs, when it came to the dissertation process, there was one, and only one, head chef—my dissertation chair.  Yes, the committee read the dissertation (probably the night before), but my chairperson had worked with me for over a year.  During that year we created, recreated, and corrected the methodology, the research design, and really the first three chapters were polished.  Consequently, my committee had very few comments because the head chef did his job!  In fact, during my dissertation proposal defense, it was more of a matter of explaining my research and defending it, and it went smoothly.  

So I implore all of those dissertation chairpersons to be head chefs.  Do not abrogate your responsibility to prep-chefs, even smart ones, for you put your doc student at a disadvantage, you lose their respect, your university loses credibility, and it’s just not right.  OK, you don’t have the statistical skill set, stick to qualitative dissertations, and if you have good quantitative skills than go promote yourself as a quantitative chair.  When you chair a dissertation, don’t just push them off to the methodologist, go get the skills yourself, if you do push them off make sure you are in the “cc” loop, and most importantly, get your dissertation student the unique support they both need and deserve that only you as a chairperson can provide.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Dissertation Statistics Consulting

Dissertation statistics consulting is required for those students who are supposed to submit their research in the form of dissertation. No student can escape his/her dissertation submission. Since students from all fields of education have to go through the task of authoring a dissertation, it is not likely that all students know the ways of performing the statistical matters of their dissertation. This is where dissertation statistics consulting can open a window of hope for depressed students who have no idea about how to go about the complicated process of using statistics.

Students who have already written a dissertation know that they need dissertation statistics consulting the moment they choose a topic for their dissertation. Since statistics is required for collection and analysis of data along with its calculations, a student cannot go ahead in his/her research without dissertation statistics consulting services. There have been many cases where students hire dissertation statistics consulting services only after wasting time in fruitlessly rewriting their thesis. According to these students who have wasted much time because they did not hire a consultant immediately, it is best to go for the dissertation statistics consulting at the beginning of your research. This will enable you to complete your dissertation in the prescribed amount of time.

Dissertation statistics consulting is available online and in-person. Most students prefer dissertation statistics consulting online, because it helps them to have fast and easy access to the dissertation statistics consulting services. Today, almost every student who is doing his masters or PhD prefers to hire the help of dissertation statistics consulting services. Medical students need dissertation statistics consulting to prove the theoretical parts of their dissertations, like prevalence of a disease at some particular place, or the usage of drugs and their requisite quantity for different age groups, etc. Medical students can also utilize the help of dissertation statistics consulting in the branch of the medical field called Biostatistics. Biostatistics include different kind of statistical issues; hence the need for dissertation statistics consulting services. Likewise, nursing students can also make use of the dissertation statistics consulting for their dissertations when they are questioning the different personal needs of the patients belonging to different age groups, different diseases and different sexes. When conducting such research, nursing students will have to take data through surveys and come up with the generalized results. This process is made much easier with the help of dissertation statistics consulting services. Dissertation statistics consulting is important for business students as well, as business has a lot to do with statistics. Dissertation statistics consulting can help prove certain aspects of marketing and research for their dissertation. Business students would benefit greatly from dissertation statistics consulting as the consultants would carry out analyses like discriminant analysis, cluster analysis, factor analysis, etc. Students of psychology can also require the help of dissertation statistics consulting. Dissertation statistics consulting can be essential while psychology students are studying and researching the different human behaviors and their causes and results. In such cases, students must collect data by taking samples and analyzing the results. Dissertation statistics consulting can help them to decide whether or not their samples are statistically significant through t tests, chi square tests, etc. Thus, we can conclude that dissertation statistics consulting services is extremely beneficial to all fields.

While deciding the ethical ‘rightness’ of hiring the dissertation statistics consulting services, one should be assured that it is completely fair to have the help of dissertation statistics consulting services. This is true because the dissertation statistics consulting services are NOT doing your dissertation. Rather, the student simply has expert advice and guidance from dissertation statistics consulting in terms of statistical matters of research. It also does not mean that you are not good in your particular subject. In fact, hiring the dissertation statistics consulting helps you to have an error free dissertation accepted by the authorities of your school.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Statistical Consulting Firms

The world is getting more competitive every day. Globalization has converted the entire world into a small village, where everything is both accessible and cyclical. This shrinking of the world has resulted in the ever increasing fight for organizations to reach the top. Businessmen and organizations are hiring experts in every field because they want to be the best. In other words, because they want to be the best, they hire the best. The situation in the field of statistical analysis or statistical calculations is no different. This is where statistical consulting firms step in. Along with big companies, students or universities also require the services of statistical consulting firms. Statistical consulting firms provide the statistical services that can help organizations and students in organizing their statistical problems and/or issues.

Companies, organizations and students who are aspiring to reach greater heights can all avail the services of statistical consulting firms. Statistical consulting firms have expert statisticians who have the knowledge and information of the ‘in’ market trends and they know the right way to carry out statistical calculations. An organization that wants to have a professional set of skills added to their business can certainly avail the services of statistical consulting services. Different organizations have different requirements and need specific industrial expertise to enhance their profit management, and the statistical consulting firms can provide the organizations great services. For example, if some marketing managers need to obtain some comprehensible survey results for launching new products, they can hire the services of the statistical consulting firms. Statistical consulting firms have very well-skilled and experienced statistical consultants working for them. These statistical consultants provide important statistical advice to their clients. Organizations and students should bare in mind that they should go for those statistical consulting firms which provide services catering to their needs and ideology so that they are able to reach their targets.

The statistical consulting firms work very professionally and can provide useful information. This can all be done while companies spend their time making decisions that are critical to their business. In this way, much time is saved (the organization can focus on what they need to focus on while the statistical consultants take care of all of the surveys/research etc…) and thus, companies and business are able to achieve their targeted goals in very organized ways. Statistical consulting firms provide services in fields such as legal consultation, business development, financial management, etc. Also if an organization wants to have a fresh outlook for an organization, it can achieve that through statistical consulting firms. Companies with low budgets can also avail the services of statistical consulting firms, as many of them are not that expensive. The services from the statistical consulting firms can be availed by signing a contract with the statistical consulting firms. Before signing the contract, the organizations or the students should be sure that the firms that they are hiring have the knowledge, skills and the right expertise to carry out their tasks. The organizations or students should plan out their strategies and targets and they should make them all clear to the statistical consulting firms. It is always better to plan things in the beginning so that there is no misunderstanding or misconception at a later stage.

It is important for the organizations to implement the results of the analysis that have been provided to them by the statistical consultants of the statistical consulting firms. This is because the recommendations provided by the statistical consulting firms help the organizations enhance their outlook and operational efficiency. Organizations should make sure that the services provided by the statistical consulting firms should not be biased, and that the firms should be authentic and honest while they are providing their services.

If all of these precautions are taken when choosing a statistical consulting firm, organizations and students will no-doubt reach their respective heights and goals. Irrespective of the nature of work done by the statistical consulting firms, the outcome for their clients is always fruitful. Statistical consulting firms act as a catalyst to students and organizations that are aspiring to reach greater heights.

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