Workshop on Statistical Analysis of Research Data

The Hands-on Workshop on “Statistical Analysis of Research Data” was held during February 8 & 9, 2012 at SDMIMD Mysore. Dr S Ravi from Department of Statistics, University of Mysore, inaugurated the workshop and delivered the Keynote address on “Significance of Statistics in Social Sciences”. Dr Ravi called on Researchers to give adequate importance while understanding a problem, defining objectives and connect themselves deeply with the dynamics of Society, while collecting the research data. Earlier, Dr N.R. Parasurman, Director of the Institute welcomed the participants. The researchers are expected to be benefited with a wide variety of advanced statistical techniques in Microsoft Excel and to move further by using freeware add-in. Prof. R. Amruthavalli, Faculty, Center for Information Science and Technology (CIST), University of Mysore, Mysore; Dr. J. Balaji, Professor - Quantitative Methods, SDMIMD, Mysore and Dr. Srilakshminarayana, Professor - Statistics, SDMIMD, Mysore were the resource persons. Mr. Sunil M.V., Librarian was the Coordinator.