The ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi organized a Symposium on “Relevant and Quality Data for Agricultural Research and Policy Planning” to celebrate the World Statistics Day – 2020 today.
Dr. R.C. Agrawal, Deputy Director General (Agricultural Education), ICAR & National Director, National Agricultural Higher Education Project highlighted the need for quality, reliable and timely agricultural data.
Padma Shri, Dr. Bimal Kumar Roy, Chairman, National Statistical Commission, Government of India & Formal Director, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata highlighted the statistical challenges in Analysis of Crowd Source Data. He urged the statisticians to research and explore the data for better use. He also elaborated the case study on analysis of data generated by usage and issues with use of two different versions of Python.
Dr. Michael Steiner, Chair, Committee on Agricultural Statistics, International Statistical Institute, The Netherlands & Senior Consultant, World Bank, Rome shared his experiences on the Agricultural Statistics System in the global perspective and associated challenges in generating reliable and timely data under the broad heading Assessment of the Agricultural Information System.
Deliberating on “High Dimensional Time Series: An Eigen Value Approach”, Professor Arup Bose, Senior Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata emphasized on several researchable issues and ideas to handle such high dimensional data.
Shri Pravin Srivastava, Former Chief Statistician of India & Former Secretary, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, Government of India itemized the several data gaps in both global and national monitoring framework. He also amplified the demand of timely and disaggregated level data for meeting the challenges in sustainable development goals indicators.
Earlier, in his welcome address, Dr. Rajender Parsad, Director, ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi briefed about the history, themes and importance of the World Statistics Day. Providing a glimpse of ICAR-IASRI’s history, Dr. Parsad stressed on the heightened need for statistics and statisticians – both in terms of training in statistics to help generate, analyze and interpret the data and research to answer new questions arising from the data in the current era of data discovery.
More than 125 participants including the participants from World Bank, FAO of United Nations, different Departments and Ministries of State and Central Governments, Indian Statistical Institute, ICAR Institutes, Universities, Scientists and students from the Institute virtually participated in the Webinar.
Source: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi
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