How to find a college major in stats
June 8, 2011 9:55 AM   Subscribe

Trying to find somewhere to discover a college student with a major in statistics for some odd job work. Anyone have a recommendation on where to start posting to find someone?
posted by CWitt to Work & Money (10 answers total)
 
Perhaps you can post something in a local college's student center. There are always bulletin boards advertising various jobs/rides/apartments, etc.
posted by jenny76 at 9:58 AM on June 8, 2011


craigslist?
posted by TheBones at 10:03 AM on June 8, 2011


MeFi Jobs?
posted by Admiral Haddock at 10:05 AM on June 8, 2011


Response by poster: @jenny thanks for the suggestion!

@TheBones was thinking that but was concerned with quality.

@Admiral didn't know that existed, looking now!
posted by CWitt at 10:13 AM on June 8, 2011


Email your local university's stats department student coordinator. Most departments have a listserv for things like this.
posted by mandymanwasregistered at 10:33 AM on June 8, 2011


Don't stats departments frequently offer consulting services? I don't know the first thing about such services and their options may not match your needs, but it could. And it would probably give you a faculty member acting as a safety net.

As mandymanwasregistered suggested, an administrative assistant in any stats department should be happy to post some information where it will likely be seen, but you might want to specifically choose a department that has a formal consulting service.
posted by stuart_s at 10:40 AM on June 8, 2011


Email local math/statistics departments. There should be contact information on the department website.
posted by teragram at 11:26 AM on June 8, 2011


FYI, many colleges (in the US) do not offer statistics as an undergrad major. I'd be very concerned about quality if hiring an undergrad for actual statistical work; even a smart undergrad does not have the volume of mistakes-learned-from that matters. My experience with undergrads for research has been very mixed. ASA offers a consulting directory if you want to hire a professional, although it is not very large. I've never hired off there, since I do stats myself.

Other places to post a stats-for-hire notice would be the physics, econ, CS, and psych departments. All these disciplines have a kind of statistical work that they're good at. If your problem lines up well with the kind of problem that they do all the time, they might be able to help you efficiently.
posted by a robot made out of meat at 12:08 PM on June 8, 2011


University of Maryland's Comp/Math/NaturalSci email listserv

I'm subscribed to this email list and there are often jobs and work for students posted, ranging from jobs to internships to contract work and volunteering. All students are enrolled in the listserv by default which is a sizeable fraction of the 37K+ undergrad population. No statistics major for undergrads (only masters and phds), but plenty of natural science and math majors.

Submission guidelines: (from the listserv emails)
Send a note to cmns-undergrad-news@listserv.umd.edu. The Subject: WILL BE the subject of your message.
It is preferred that your message be brief (200 words or less). No personal messages, attachments or HTML are permitted.
All messages will be reviewed by the editor - Gene Ferrick. The digest will generally be emailed once a day, Mon-Fri, at noon.

posted by everyday_naturalist at 3:30 PM on June 8, 2011


Response by poster: Awesome, thanks everyone for the ideas!
posted by CWitt at 6:48 AM on June 9, 2011


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