Welcome to LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis)

LISA (Virginia Tech’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis) has been advancing research via expert statistical analysis since 1948. Our mission is to train statistics students to become interdisciplinary collaborators and to demonstrate the value of statistical thinking in interdisciplinary collaborations. We provide statistical advice, analysis, and education to Virginia Tech researchers by offering individual collaboration meetings, walk-in consulting, educational short courses, and support for interdisciplinary research projects.

LISA’s statistical collaborators are trained to help researchers design experiments, analyze and plot data, run statistical software, interpret results, and communicate statistical concepts to non-statisticians. Our assistance is free for Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and students on academic research projects. Areas of expertise include:

  • Grant Proposals
  • Experimental Design
  • Multivariate Methods
  • Biostatistics
  • Time Series
  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Quality Control
  • Response Surface Models
  • Publication Preparation
  • Statistical Software: R, SAS, JMP, MINITAB, SPSS, etc.

Review our policies and request a meeting with a LISA statistical collaborator.

 

LISA Walk-In Consulting Service

Summer 2013 Hours: 1-3 PM, Monday through Friday in the GLC Video Conference Room additional information is available on the Walk-In Consulting page.

A statistical consultant is available from 1-3 PM Monday through Friday when classes are in session to answer your quick questions or to help with research projects requiring less than 30 minutes of assistance. For more in-depth questions or longer projects, complete the LISA Request Form and a team of statistical collaborators will be assigned to work with you. LISA does not assist with class projects or homework.

 

Contact:

Collaboration Request Form

Tonya Pruitt
LISA Administrative Specialist
405-C Hutcheson Hall (0439)
Email: LISA@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-8354

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Updates and Upcoming Events

LISA is an International Year of Statistics participating organization

May 8, 2013

Wednesday, May 8th is the last day for Spring Walk-In Consulting. Walk-In begins again on May 28th, the first day of summer classes.

April 18, 2013

On April 18th from 3:30-4:30 pm in 300 Seitz, Dr.Eric Vance, Director of LISA (Virginia Tech's Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis), will be presenting a colloquium in honor of the International Year of Statistics entitled “LISA 2020 and Ut Prosim: Building statistics capacity in developing countries.”

April 12, 2013

Dr. Eric Vance and Dr. Ralph Hall at Virginia Tech describe how they developed the concept of an "on-the-ground statistician" to advance their data collection and cleaning practices in relation to large-scale household surveys.

April 12, 2013

Data science is "the sexiest job in the 21st century" according to the Harvard Business Review. LISA collaborators are gaining experience as data scientists with each project they work on!

April 8, 2013

A fun blog update on the Hidden Impacts of LISA based on one day of VT News stories.

April 7, 2013

April 3, 2013

The LISA 2020 website is now live and accepting applications from individuals interested in becoming our first LISA Fellow.

April 11, 2013

Eric Vance and Ralph Hall will discuss their experiences preparing students to conduct fieldwork on interdisciplinary research projects in developing countries.

March 15, 2013

LISA has received a grant from Google for our LISA 2020 project with the goal of training at least 20 statisticians to create a network of 20 statistical laboratories in developing countries by 2020.

March 8, 2013

February 2, 2013

Interested in earning a PhD in statistics and working with LISA? Check out our flyer. Please share it with any interested individuals!

January 22, 2013

Spring Walk-In Consulting begins. See our Walk-In Consulting page for more information.

January 1, 2013

Our spring semester Short Courses have been posted. Sign up soon to ensure you have a seat!

December 12, 2012

LISA's 2011-2012 Annual Report is now available on our About Us page.

August 10, 2012

How LISA fosters collaboration, an invited talk at JSM 2012 by Dr. Eric Vance has just been posted.

June 1, 2012

Check out Dr. Vance's article on "International Experiences in Statistics" in the AmstatNews.

February 1, 2012

In a recently published paper, Nigerian statistician Olawale Olushina Awe cites LISA as the example for African universities to follow as he calls for the establishment of statistical consulting centers and the training of young statisticians in consulting in all universities in Africa.