For dissertation & thesis researchers

Your defense shouldn't be where you learn your analysis was wrong.
Let's get it right before then.

Statistical consulting for dissertations, theses, and DNP/EdD capstones — from research design through your defense, explained clearly and built to hold up to committee scrutiny.

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Work directly with the person who did the analysis

When you work with DASS on dissertation support, you work directly with Dr. Nedim Yel — not a rotating team or a subcontractor. Every method and every result is something he can explain to your committee himself, because he's the one who ran it.

Real feedback from real students
4.68/5.0 average teaching evaluation across 7 semesters of graduate statistics courses
I came in intimidated by the idea of quantitative analysis and now I feel confident using it if I choose to.
Course evaluation, Spring 2025
This course was the best experience with advanced statistics that I could have asked for — the instructor provided extremely valuable resources for running statistical analyses and gave very detailed and supportive individualized feedback.
Course evaluation, Spring 2026
Dr. Yel is very knowledgeable about quantitative methods and cares about supporting his students' understanding.
Course evaluation, Spring 2025

Sound familiar?

How it works

Support mapped to the actual stages of a dissertation, not a flat service list — engage for one phase or all three.

Phase 1

Plan & Propose

  • Frame research questions and hypotheses so they're actually testable
  • Choose the right design and analysis before you defend your proposal
  • Review your proposed methods chapter
Phase 2

Analyze

  • Run the analysis correctly the first time
  • Troubleshoot problems as they come up — messy data, unexpected results, committee pushback
  • Interpret results and report them in APA format
Phase 3

Interpret & Defend

  • Make sure you understand and can explain every result yourself
  • Prepare for the questions your committee is likely to ask
  • Revise chapters based on committee feedback

What you get

Where this shows up in our work

The same rigor we bring to multi-site, federally funded studies — study design, multilevel models, defensible results — is what you get on your dissertation, scaled to your project.

Higher Education · NSF · $1.5M

A belonging intervention across 22 colleges

One coordinated analysis across 22 campuses

Statistical support on a multi-site randomized controlled trial testing whether a belonging intervention improves STEM outcomes for women and underrepresented students.

Special Education · IES · $3.7M

Project PRIME2: sustaining what works in schools

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Co-Principal Investigator on a federal trial helping educators plan, implement, and maintain evidence-based interventions in real classrooms.

$15M+
In funded research we've helped design and analyze
3,000+
Citations across our team's published research
15+ yrs
Applied statistics — from RCTs to psychometrics
50+
Consulting projects across education, health, and industry
Methods we work in
Multilevel models Structural equation modeling Bayesian methods IRT & psychometrics Randomized controlled trials Power analysis R & reproducible code
Working in a specific field?
Education research Psychology research Healthcare & clinical research

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