Legal & Policies.

Who We Are

Stat.BD is a small, independent consultancy in statistics, data analysis, and research methods. Many of us are researchers at, or graduates of, 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 the University of Rajshahi or any other institution.

When you contact us, you are working with Stat.BD as an independent consultancy. We work online with clients in Bangladesh and abroad. A team member’s university affiliation describes their training and background. It is not a claim that any university or department endorses Stat.BD or your project.

Nature of Our Service

Each project begins with a scope we agree together. That might be thesis or dissertation support, survey or questionnaire design, statistical support for a manuscript, an evaluation or M&E report, a dashboard, a machine learning or bioinformatics analysis, a consultation, or a replication package you can reopen later.

Within that scope, you get full support, not a quick pass over your files. We do the analytical and methodological work we agreed to, with the same care we apply to our own research.

In short: we deliver the statistical and methodological parts you hire us for. We do not take over your research, your authorship, or the decisions that belong to you or your organization.

What Full Support Within Scope Means

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

The aim is work you can explain in a viva, a meeting, or a report, 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 project from first idea to final submission without real input from you. You remain responsible for the research question, data collection (unless we include it in the scope), interpreting the results in your own voice, the final thesis, paper, or report, and authorship.

We do not ghostwrite chapters, articles, or reports, invent or fabricate data, misstate your role in the work, or complete graded assignments, exams, or vivas for you.

Many universities, journals, and funders require you to declare outside statistical or methodological help. That declaration 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, reviewer, or client asks for changes, we work within the revision round included in the quote. We cannot bypass your university’s or organization’s process, and we do not promise publication, grades, viva results, approvals, or funding.

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 for what we need, and, when appropriate, send a quoted scope, timeline, and fee. Work starts once you accept that scope in writing; email is enough.

Payment is arranged after you accept the scope: cash, bKash, or bank transfer in Bangladesh. For clients abroad, the payment method is agreed in the quote. 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 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, approvals, funding, or any result that depends on someone else’s judgment. Sensitive material must stay on email and the contact form, not messaging apps.

Limitations

We are responsible for sound analysis and honest reporting. Whether a thesis passes, a paper is accepted, a report is approved, or a proposal is funded still depends on study design, data quality, writing, and other people’s decisions, 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.