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I have been thinking for a while about simplifying my billing practices for independent statistical consulting. There are a lot of reasons for doing this, but mostly it makes things simpler for me and my customers. Nothing's official yet, but here's a brief description of the proposed revision in billing.

One policy that won't change is that I offer the first hour of consulting for free.

For projects of moderate complexity (we would establish whether your project is moderately complex during the first hour of discussion),

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