I will review the statistics in your research paper before submission

Mexico

I speak Spanish, English, French

PhD Candidate in Astrophysics, Statistical Consulting

PhD candidate in astrophysics. I spend my days doing statistics on messy, incomplete, correlated data — galaxy catalogs where nothing is clean and every error bar has to be defended. I bring that sta...
About this Gig

Your reviewer will check your statistics. I'd rather do it first.


I'm a PhD candidate in astrophysics. My own work lives or dies on whether the error bars are defensible, so I read papers the way a referee does: looking for the thing that gets a manuscript sent back.


What I check:


Is the test appropriate for your data, and are its assumptions actually met?

Are your error bars right? (Correlated data almost always has underestimated uncertainties: this is the single most common problem I find.)

Multiple comparisons: are you testing many hypotheses without correcting?

Sample size and power: can your data support the claim you're making?

Selection effects and missing data: who is not in your sample, and why?

Over-interpretation: where the text claims more than the numbers show.


What you get: a written report with every finding ranked by severity: what a reviewer will definitely catch, what they might, and what's fine. Each one with a concrete suggestion, not just criticism.


I'm not a native English speaker, and I don't edit language: this is about the statistics. Send me your draft (or just the methods and results sections) and tell me where you plan to submit.

Technology:

Jupyter Notebook

Pandas

Analysis type:

Quantitative analysis

Statistical analysis

Expertise:

Experiment design

Probability

Statistics

Programming language:

Python

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