Your research question is important. The analysis needs to hold up.
Senior statistical and methodological support for study design, analysis, evaluation, and publication — explained clearly and built to withstand scrutiny.
"Reviewer 2 questioned my analysis."
Methods sections, power analyses, and revise-and-resubmit responses from a Co-PI on NSF and IES trials.
How we help researchers →"Our funder wants evidence of impact."
Program evaluation your board and funders can act on — designed to fit real budgets and real data.
How we help non-profits →"Our eval numbers won't hold up."
Statistically defensible evaluation frameworks and metrics for LLM and data products — before a customer audits them.
How we help startups →"My IES grant needs airtight methods."
Study design and reporting for IES-, NSF-, and foundation-funded education research — $16M+ in named awards to date.
How we help education researchers →"My model needs to satisfy a psych methodologist."
Multilevel modeling, SEM, and psychometrics from a team that includes an NSF CAREER Fellow in counseling psychology.
How we help psychology researchers →That's what the free 30-minute consult is for. Bring the problem; leave with a plan, whether or not you hire us.
Statistical consulting services, from study design to publication
Engage us for a single analysis or as an ongoing methods partner across the full lifecycle of a project.
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Statistical consulting for research, health, legal & AI industries
From grant-funded academic studies to fast-moving AI startups, we adapt the method to the question — never the other way around.
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Real questions, defensible answers
Representative federally- and foundation-funded projects our team has supported as PI, Co-PI, methodologist, or statistician.
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Expertise you can actually understand
Plenty of firms can run a model. Fewer can tell you what it means, whether it's the right one, and how to explain it to a reviewer, a board, or a grant committee. That's the gap we fill.
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A clear path from question to answer
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Trusted by researchers who don't cut corners
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DASS started from a simple frustration: too much good research stalls because the statistics are done to it, not with it. We built a practice where you talk directly to the statistician doing the work — someone who cares as much about explaining the result as computing it.
Statisticians who speak human
You work directly with senior methodologists who stay hands-on with your project from first call to final handoff.
PhD in psychometrics and a Harvard Strategic Data Fellow with 15+ years across NSF-, IES-, and foundation-funded research — from randomized trials at 22 colleges to healthcare and access-to-justice work. Today he also works as a Senior Data Scientist building AI products.
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Associate Professor at UMass Boston and PI on ~$5M in grants, with research cited over 2,000 times. She blends rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods to answer the questions numbers alone can't.
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