Legal & Policies.

Who we are

stat.bd is a small, informal consultancy in statistics and research methods. Many of us are researchers at the University of Rajshahi, but stat.bd itself is not a registered company, and it is not an official unit, department, or endorsed service of Rajshahi University or any other institution.

When you contact us, you are working with stat.bd as an independent consultancy. A team member's university affiliation describes their training and background. It is not a claim that Rajshahi University, or any department, endorses stat.bd or your project.

Nature of our service

Each project begins with a scope we agree together. That might mean thesis or dissertation analysis, survey or questionnaire review, statistical support for a manuscript, a consultation session, or a replication package you can reopen later.

Inside that scope, you receive full support, not a quick pass over your files. We carry out the analytical and methodological work we have agreed to, with the same care we would apply in our own research.

Put simply: we consult on and deliver the statistical and methodological parts you hire us for. We do not take over your research programme, your authorship, or the parts of the work that belong to you as the researcher.

What full support within scope means

What counts as full support depends on what we put in writing. It often includes agreeing the analysis plan before heavier work starts; cleaning and preparing the scoped dataset; running models and checking assumptions; tables, charts, and syntax files; short notes on what the results mean; one revision round for supervisor or reviewer comments; and, if you ask, replication files (syntax, cleaned outputs, a short methods memo).

The aim is to leave you with work you can explain in a viva or meeting and return to months later. If anything in the scope is unclear, we settle it during the initial review, not after delivery.

What we do not do

We will not run a research project from first idea to final submission without real input from you. You remain responsible for the research question, data collection (unless we explicitly include it in scope), interpretation in your own voice, the thesis or manuscript write-up, and authorship.

We do not ghostwrite chapters or articles, invent or fabricate data, misstate your role in the study, or complete graded assignments, exams, or vivas on your behalf.

Many departments require you to disclose outside statistical or methodological help. That disclosure is your responsibility. If you need a written summary of what we did and did not do, ask and we can usually provide one.

Academic integrity and authorship

Authorship and intellectual ownership stay with you. We help on the analytical and methodological parts we agree to; we do not take your place as the researcher.

If your supervisor requests changes, we work within the revision round included in the quote. We cannot bypass your department's process, and we do not promise publication, grades, or viva results.

We turn down work that would require false claims, analysis copied without understanding, fabricated evidence, misleading reporting of results, or p-hacking.

Terms of engagement

The initial scope review is free. We read your message, say whether the project fits, ask what we need, and, when appropriate, send a quoted scope, timeline, and fee. Work starts once you accept that scope in writing; email is sufficient.

Payment is arranged after scope confirmation, usually via bKash or bank transfer. No payment is required for the initial review.

Please keep project communication on email and the contact form. We do not handle sensitive project material through informal messaging apps.

Revisions are limited to what the quote covers. New datasets, new analyses, or a major redesign after sign-off may require a fresh quote.

What we decline

We decline work involving fabricated or manipulated results, or methods chosen only to reach significance. We will not misrepresent your role or ours in a project. We do not guarantee publication, grades, viva outcomes, or any result that depends on academic or editorial judgement. Sensitive material must stay on email and the contact form, not informal channels.

Limitations

We are responsible for sound analysis and honest reporting. Whether a thesis passes, a paper is accepted, or a supervisor is satisfied still depends on study design, data quality, writing, and institutional rules, none of which we can control or guarantee.

We do not attend vivas, examinations, or meetings on your behalf. We give you methods and outputs you can explain yourself.

Privacy

How we handle contact information, project files, retention, and analytics is described on our Privacy page.