Quantitative Consulting Services
Quantitative Consulting Services provides general assistance with quantitative methods and analysis to doctoral students. Our consultants are Warner doctoral students who are proficient in a range of statistical methods and can provide students with the strategies and guidance needed to address their quantitative research questions.
Consultants are available to assist with — not conduct — analyses of your data. Students are expected to take primary responsibility for their own work. Here are some of the free services provided:
- Assistance with planning the research methods for your dissertation.
- Guidance with research design.
- Guidance with survey design.
- Suggestions for approaches regarding data management (data manipulation, formatting, and coding).
- Guidance with selection of appropriate statistical procedures.
- Guidance with model selection.
- Assistance with interpreting results.
- Assistance with using SPSS or AMOS.
- Guidance with presenting quantitative results in APA format.
- Guidance to help you move forward with your quantitative research.
- Identification of additional resources that might prove useful to you.
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Preparing for an Appointment
At least 24 hours before your appointment, email any required information to quantconsulting@warner.rochester.edu. If not emailed in advance, please bring all relevant content and ideas for discussion to the consultation.
Spring 2026 Writing Workshops
Attend workshops in person or via Zoom and access workshop recordings.
Spring 2026 Quantitative Consulting Workshops
Attend workshops via Zoom and access workshop recordings.
Saturday, Feb. 7, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m., LeChase 305 and Zoom
If you plan to attend this workshop, please register here (2/7). Preregistration is not required, but it can help us with planning.
This workshop will focus on data screening, cleaning, coding, and recoding. We will review essential steps for preparing data for analysis, including detecting and correcting incorrect, duplicated, incomplete, or out-of-range values, as well as coding and recoding variables to ensure they are properly formatted for statistical procedures.
For accommodation requests, please contact the Office of Disability Resources at disability@rochester.edu or (585) 276-5075.
More information is available at www.rochester.edu/college/disability.
Saturday, March 7, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 p.m., LeChase 305 and Zoom
If you plan to attend this workshop, please register here (3/7). Preregistration is not required, but it can help us with planning.
This workshop will focus on how to select the appropriate statistical test based on research questions, study design, and types of variables. We will review the difference between categorical and continuous data, examine when to use tests that compare groups versus tests that explore relationships, and discuss key assumptions that guide test selection.
For accommodation requests, please contact the Office of Disability Resources at disability@rochester.edu or (585) 276-5075.
More information is available at www.rochester.edu/college/disability.
Saturday, April 4, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 p.m., LeChase 305 and Zoom
If you plan to attend this workshop, please register here (4/4). Preregistration is not required, but it can help us with planning.
This workshop will focus on interpreting and reporting quantitative findings. We will review how to read and understand output tables for descriptive statistics and tests that examine relationships among variables and compare groups. We will review how to interpret means, significance values, and estimates, and report these findings in APA style. The session will provide practical steps for summarizing statistical output, identifying meaningful patterns in the data, and presenting results.
For accommodation requests, please contact the Office of Disability Resources at disability@rochester.edu or (585) 276-5075.
More information is available at www.rochester.edu/college/disability.
Resources
Using SPSS at the University of Rochester: At the Warner School, SPSS is available to students in the Technology Classroom. On the River Campus, SPSS is available in the following locations: ITS Center (Rush Rhees); Hylan 303; Gavett 244; Harkness 114; and Carlson Library.
Downloading SPSS (trial version): A free 14-day trial version of SPSS is available for download at the following Web site: IBM SPSS Statistics Trial
At the Warner School, AMOS is available to students in the Technology Classroom.
A free student version is available for download at HLM free student edition.
Arinze Amanekwe
Arinze is a Scandling Fellow in education policy with experience in research design, data analysis and management. His interests cut across education production function design, learning disability studies, and teacher labor markets in K–12, as well as the broader equity and effectiveness of school systems. He is proficient in descriptive statistics, correlation, regression analysis and hypothesis testing. He regularly works with tools such as SPSS, AMOS, Google Data Studio & Power BI.
Simao Luis
Simao is a Scandling Scholar in human development with a deep passion for mixed-methods research. Grounded in biopsychosocial, life-course, and self-determination theories, his research investigates the sociopsychological and cultural factors influencing the relationship between digital media use and mental health outcomes, such as depression, stress, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. He is proficient in descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression analysis.
Contact Quantitative Consulting
For non-appointment inquiries, email quantconsulting@warner.rochester.edu
Accommodations
For disability-related accommodations, please contact the Office of Disability Resources at disability@rochester.edu or (585) 276-5075.
More information is available at www.rochester.edu/college/disability.