On August 13, the Office of the Vice President for Research announced that the Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research unit will be permanently closed. OVPR provided only vague justification for this move, claiming it would make them more effective in meeting a variety of needs on campus.

CSCAR is a University of Michigan service unit that provides free statistical consulting to students, staff and faculty, enabling them to pursue research questions beyond their advisers’ or collaborators’ expertise while ensuring methodological rigor. CSCAR also provides practical workshops on a variety of statistical software and methods for nominal fees. The faculty, staff and graduate students who work there are experts in statistics, data science and survey methods. Closing C

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