At PRIMER-e, we meet you wherever you are on your research path. We start with in-depth discussions to help you refine ideas and develop actionable analysis pathways. You can choose to handle the analyses yourself, or leave it to us.
Every project is unique, and we tailor our approach to support you – whether it’s developing methods, improving design, performing analyses, writing code or visualising patterns.
We’re committed to communicating complex ideas with clarity, ensuring you achieve rigorous interpretations from data, analyses & results.
Our experienced consultants can help with ecological statistics, multivariate analysis, sampling methods, experimental design, generalised linear models, mixed models, Bayesian modelling, statistical simulation, power analysis, or other advanced techniques. Our team is recognised globally for statistical expertise across a broad range of fields.
Biology
Biology Agriculture
Genetics
Our consultants have decades of experience in multivariate statistics, ecological modelling, Bayesian approaches, and much more.
We work with clients across all scientific disciplines, and are comfortable using a wide range of statistical software, including R, Python, Quarto, and of course our own PRIMER and PERMANOVA+ software.
Oliviah Lines, PhD candidate, Centre for Freshwater Ecosystems, La Trobe University, Australia.
Ailish Ullmann, PhD Candidate
Sami J. Taipale, Associate Professor in Analytical Environmental Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
We understand that every project is unique, so we offer an initial free 15-minute consultation to discuss your specific needs. Our pricing structures are sensitive to the needs of clients with varying purchasing power across different sectors, in different types of organisations from different countries across the globe.
Contact us today to discuss how our statistical consulting services can help your project succeed.
Adam Smith has worked with PRIMER-e since 2017 as a Workshop Presenter and Statistical Consultant. Adam obtained his PhD in Statistics from Massey University (MU) in Auckland, New Zealand, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer in Statistics. He is Director of Sea Through Science Ltd., providing statistical consulting and marine ecological research services. Adam has extensive experience across a wide range of disciplines, including quantitative ecology, data mining, and biostatistics. He specializes in applying modern statistical methods to biology and ecology and is a key consultant to industry and government for fisheries and marine reserve assessments. As an educator, Adam is known for his enthusiastic and engaging teaching style and his passion for using statistical concepts to learn about our world. As a consultant, with over 20 years of scientific experience with hundreds of datasets, Adam can quickly grasp his clients’ analytical needs and identify the appropriate statistical methods to meet them.