{"id":2229,"date":"2021-07-05T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indcareer.com\/news\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2021-07-08T10:46:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T10:46:53","slug":"national-statistics-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indcareer.com\/news\/national-statistics-day\/","title":{"rendered":"NATIONAL STATISTICS DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Aligarh, July 5:&nbsp;<\/strong>Prof Ashis Sen Gupta (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) discussed the necessity of spreading awareness among the masses on the importance of statistics in daily life and the&nbsp;importance of statistics for the formulation of national policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was delivering the keynote address of the \u201815th National Statistics Day\u2019 celebrations of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indcareer.com\/news\/tag\/aligarh-muslim-university-amu\/\">Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)<\/a> to commemorate the&nbsp;birth anniversary of late Prof Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis&nbsp;and his invaluable contribution in establishing the National Statistical System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe essence of statistics is to make sense out of data which can be done only when it is implemented sensibly,\u201d he said highlighting the contributions of&nbsp;Prof&nbsp;Mahalanobis such as the establishment of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), Central Statistics Office (CSO) and publication of the internationally reputed journal of statistics, Sankhya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof Ashis reminded that leading researchers of his time from UK, USA and Russia among other countries such as Prof R A Fisher, Prof Kolmogrov, and Prof Weiner visited the ISI and published their work in Sankhya<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presiding over the inaugural function, Prof Qazi Mazhar Ali (Dean, Faculty of Science) said that by a good choice of data and that of the efficient data analysis techniques, we can compete in the computer intensive world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He highlighted the potential available in the Faculty of Science in the form of collaborative work on Geospatial data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the plenary talks, Prof V Charles (Chief Analytics Officer, Anthrolytics Ltd. 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