Statistics - CIS Research and Consulting Laboratory
Opening February 2007
Developed by Professors Shulmith T. Gross and Karl R. Lang
Mission
The mission of the Research and Statistical Consulting Laboratory is to provide: (1) Statistical consulting services to Baruch College faculty and PhD students engaged in empirical research in all Business, Public Policy, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. (2) A facility where faculty can design and conduct research experiments in an electronic environment;.
Specifically, the lab will
- Promote first class empirical research at Baruch College, through individual consultations, graduate student training, and specialized statistics seminars to introduce Baruch faculty and Ph D students to currently ‘hot’ statistics methodology.
- Foster inter-disciplinary high quality, externally funded research across schools, and within schools at Baruch College.
- Help Baruch faculty and PhD students plan their empirical studies, create research databases for their studies, resolve difficulties in their application of statistical software to their data, and interpret their results.
- Help Baruch faculty and PhD students learn and adopt new statistical technology as it becomes available in their respective fields.
- Direct Baruch faculty and PhD students to appropriate statistical software, and provide such software at the lab, if it is not widely available at Baruch.
- Provide training in the use of new and old software.
- Offer seminar series by statistics professors on a variety of topics deemed of current interest to Baruch faculty and PhD students.
To these ends the Statistics Consulting Laboratory will have 10 workstations equipped with a variety of current statistical general-purpose and special-purpose statistical software that will permit sophisticated analysis of both mega files of mining data and experimental data. The laboratory will also have a network printer, seminar/meeting area with projection equipment where presentations to small groups of faculty/PhD students may be held, an area for group meetings, as well as an office for the consulting staff.
The consulting laboratory will be open to faculty and PhD students, and an assistant will be present at all opening times. Statistics faculty will hold office hours at the consulting office housed within the lab. Consultations with groups of faculty and their assistants, engaged in collaborative research will be possible within the facility.
The new Information Systems Experimental Laboratory will support the research of faculty in the SCIS Department that are actively engaged in doing experimental research projects, and have already published a number of papers in leading Information Systems journals reporting their findings. Experimental research has been established as a standard research method in the area of information systems. Studies examining questions related to user behavior of information systems applications and studies investigating issues related to the design and performance of electronic markets rely on experiments in the laboratory. The laboratory will have: 30 networked computer workstations, a network printer, dividers that separate subjects to prevent corruption of the experiments, and software including click stream capturing.
Facilities
Information Systems Experimental Lab
- 30 networked computer workstations
- Network printer
- Dividers that separate subjects to prevent corruption of the experiments
- Software including click stream capturing
Statistical Consulting Laboratory
- 10 networked computer workstations
- Network printer
- Seminar/meeting area with projection equipment where presentations to small groups of faculty/PhD students may be held.
- Area for group research meetings
- Office for consulting staff
