Statistical Consulting and Analytics Group (SCAG)

Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of South Florida Tampa, FL

Introduction/Acknowledgement

• SCAG started from the discussion of an idea proposed by Dr. Rebecca Wooten, Assistant Professor with the department of Mathematics and Statistics with her doctoral candidate Kenneth Baah when they were working of submitting a NSF grant proposal during the 2013 Fall semester. Hence, they forwarded or sold the idea to the director of Statistics program, Dr. Tsokos who agreed to help promote and initiate such a proposal and it then began at the small office of Dr. Wooten, grew from there to a computer lab at the department of Economics where we currently meet on every Friday with an average of 5 students and two faculty members.

Mission Statement

• SCAG will work with graduate student in Statistics to hone their skills in Statistical Methodology, Computational Statistics, Research, Statistical Consulting and Analytics. Responsibilities include data acquisition, data management, modeling, and promotion of the organization's mission by offer statistical consulting to clients in the university community in support of their academic research, enriching the education and training of statisticians through their involvement in statistical consulting.

Data Management

• SCAG is interested in working with data types including qualitative and quantitative data in various formats/software including but not limited to txt files, Excel, Access, ArcGIS, R, SAS and Survey Monkey. All collections will be done by collaborating research and resulting analysis will be maintained for future use as course material covering Analytics, publications and for grant proposals.

• The major areas of SCAG research are : Environmental, Medical and Other. The Other folder will be subdivided into more specific areas of research in the future as the consulting demands.

Data Management

• Drought • Earthquake • Flood • Hurricanes • Tornados • among others • Cancer: • Breast • Colon • Lung • Heart attacks • Heart Failure • among others • Future Consulting • Finance • Economic • Industry • among others

• SACG has already started consulting with institutions and/or individuals such as iMaRS, USF St. Petersburg, FL on the environmental area of research; Turbidity, where RA stands for Regression Analysis. Other standard abbreviations include: TS (Time Series Analysis), SA (Survival Analysis), etc.