STAT 8801 Statistical Consulting Resource list
Books
Cabrera, J., and McDougall, A., (2002), Statistical Consulting, Springer, New York.
Chatfield, Christopher, (1988), Problem Solving: A Statistician's Guide Chapman and Hall, London.
Derr, J., (2000), Statistical Consulting: A Guide to Effective Communication, Duxbury
Hand, D. J., and Everitt, B. S., (1987), The Statistical Consultant in Action, Cambridge University Press.
Polya, George (1971) How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method
Web resources
American Statistical Association Consulting Section
www.stat.wisc.edu/statistics/consulting
Printed papers
0. A bibliography
Baskerville, J. C. (1981) ‘A systematic study of the consulting literature as an integral part of applied training in
statistics’, American Statistician, 35, 121-123.
McCulloch, Charles E., Boroto, Daniel R., Meeter, Duane, Polland, Ronald and Zahn, Douglas A. (1985), ‘An
expanded approach to educating statistical consultants’, American Statistician, 39, 159-167.
1. Where is statistical consulting done?
Boen, James R. (1982), ‘A self-supporting University statistical consulting center’, American Statistician, 36, 321325.
Cameron, J. M. (1969), ‘The statistical consultant in a scientific laboratory’, Technometrics, 11, 247-254.
Daniel, Cuthbert (1969), ‘Some general remarks on consulting in statistics’, Technometrics, 11, 241-245.
Kirk, Roger E. (1991), ‘Statistical consulting in a university: dealing with people and other challenges’, American
Statistician, 45, 28-33.
Marquardt, Donald W. (1979), ‘Statistical consulting in industry’, American Statistician, 33, 102-107.
Marquardt, Donald W. (1981), ‘Criteria for evaluation the performance of statistical consultants in industry’,
American Statistician, 35, 216-219.
Meier, P., (1986), ‘Damned liars and expert witnesses’, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 71, 269276.
2. Interpersonal aspects of consulting and roles.
Boen, James (1972), ‘The teaching of personal interaction in statistical consulting’, American Statistician, 26, 30-31.
Boen, James and Fryd, David (1978), ‘Six-state transactional analysis in statistical consultation’, American
Statistician, 32, 5840.
Bross, Irwin D. J. (1974), ‘The role of the statistician: Scientist or shoe clerk’, American Statistician, 28, 126-f27.
Hunter, William G., (1981), ‘The practice of statistics: The real world is an idea whose time has come’, American
Statistician, 35, 72-76.
Hyams, Lyon (1971), ‘The practical psychology of biostatistical consultation’, Biometrics, 27, 201-211.
Zahn, Douglas A. and Isenberg, Daniel J. (1983), ‘Nonstatistical aspects of statistical consulting’, American
Statistician, 37, 297-302.
4. Reporting and communication skills
Ehrenberg, A. S. C., (1982), ‘Writing technical papers or reports’, American Statistician, 36, 326-329.
Ehrenberg, A. S. C., (1977), ‘Rudiments of numeracy’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, A140, 277-297.
Hoadley, R. Bruce., and Kettenring, Jon. R., (1990), ‘Communication between statisticians and engineers/physical
scientists’, Technometrics, 32, 243-274.
McDonald Gary C., (1988), ‘Communicating with managers’, Chance, 1, 42-44.
5. Professional conduct and ethics
American Statistical Association (1983), ‘Ethical standards for statistical practice: Report of the ad hoc committee on
professional ethics’, American Statistician, 37, 5-6.
Engeman, Richard M. and Shumake, Stephen A. (1983), ‘Animal welfare and the statistical consultant’, American
Statistician, 47, 229-233.
Hooke, Robert (1980), ‘Getting people to use statistics properly’, American Statistician, 34, 102-107.
Some interesting cases
Harshbarger, Boyd (1974), ‘An example of how a designed experiment saved research workers from false
recommendations’, American Statistician, 78, 128-129.
Penner, Ralph and Watts, Donald G. (1991), ‘Mining Information’, American Statistician, 45, 4-9
Professional societies
American Statistical Association, http://www.amstat.org
American Statistician
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Technometrics
American Society for Quality http://www.asqc.org
Journal of Quality Technology
Technometrics
Biometric Society http://www.enar.org
Biometrics
Institute for Mathematical Statistics http://www.imstat.org
Annals of Statistics
Annals of Probability
Statistical Science