A statistician on call, from first design to final submission
Not every research problem calls for a full done-for-you analysis. Sometimes what you need is someone to confirm the design before you collect a single data point, to sanity-check a model a reviewer is now questioning, or to stay alongside a project for months as the analysis evolves and new questions surface. That advisory relationship, rather than one transactional deliverable, is what statistical consulting is built for, and it is where a statistics consultant who has actually published in your field is worth far more than a generic hour of help. You keep ownership of the project; we make sure every methodological decision inside it is defensible.
Research Gold delivers statistical consulting services led by PhD methodologists with experience across health sciences, nursing, psychology, education, social sciences, and beyond. Depending on the stage of your project, you are matched with a PhD statistician who has published in your field, and for clinical and trial datasets that reaches into medical statistics consulting. For hands-on work rather than advisory sessions, you can hire a statistician for hands-on analysis. You bring the research question and the data. We recommend the right approach, run the analysis in R, Stata, SPSS, or SAS, and return reproducible code with a written interpretation you can stand behind.
What our statistical consulting includes
A full statistical consulting engagement spans study design and analysis planning, sample size and power, model selection, assumption checks, regression and mixed models, and results interpretation and reporting, in R, Stata, SPSS, or SAS, and is available for one-off or ongoing consultation. It covers the entire analytical lifecycle, or any single stage of it:
- Study design and analysis-plan advice, so the data you collect can actually answer your question.
- Statistical test selection matched to your hypotheses, variables, and design.
- Data cleaning and screening, including missing-data strategy and assumption checks.
- The analysis itself, run in your required software with annotated, reproducible code.
- Tables, figures, and a results-section draft in your target style.
- A written interpretation of every result, so you can explain the analysis in your own words.
You can engage us for the full pipeline or for a single piece: a statistical interpretation service for results you already have, a second opinion on a method choice, or a one-off data analysis consulting review before submission.
When to hire a statistical consultant
Most researchers reach for a statistical consultant at one of three moments: at the design stage, before data collection where possible, when the wrong choice now means uninterpretable data later; mid-project, when the analysis grows beyond what a spreadsheet or a single calculator can handle; or after a reviewer asks for an analysis their training never covered. Any of these is the right time. Early advice is cheaper than a redesign, and a defensible analysis is cheaper than a rejection.
If you want to test the waters first, our free tools handle the routine work: a regression calculator, a sample size calculator, and a statistical power calculator. When the question outgrows the tool, that is exactly when a research statistics consultant earns the fee.
How this differs from our other statistics services
Statistical consulting is the general hub for researchers across every field. Three neighbouring services are more specialised:
- For clinical, trial, and biomedical data governed by Good Clinical Practice, our clinical biostatistics consulting is the closer fit.
- For doctoral and master's candidates working on a statistics chapter, our dissertation statistics help is built around the thesis and defense.
- For questionnaire and scale data, our expert survey data analysis help handles reliability and validity end to end, and for interview or open-response data our qualitative data analysis covers coding and theme development.
If you are unsure which of your problems is methodological rather than purely statistical, our research consultant service advises on the broader design and strategy.
