Aims of the Statistical Consulting Centre
The aims of the Centre are:
- To be a focus for the long standing statistical consulting activities of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics;
- To promote the practice of appropriate and informative statistical methods;
- To be a stimulus to relevant teaching in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics;
- To provide research problems whose solutions are of immediate practical interest;
- To train advanced students;
- To increase the awareness of the utility of statistical expertise;
- To foster mutually beneficial contacts between the University and the wider community;
- To act as a focus for statistical consultancy within the University.