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Friday, June 13, 2014

Skill development training for personnel engaged in statistics collection and analysis

GANGTOK, 12 June: Ten-day training programme on Basic Statistics and Computer Application in Statistics was organized by the Department of Economics, Statistics, Monitoring & Evaluation in collaboration with the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata at Chintan Bhawan, Gangtok from 02 to 11 June, 2014.The ISI, Kolkata is a reputed institute of Government of India engaged in research and offers advance courses in statistics.
A press release informs, the inaugural programme was held on 02 June 2014 which had DG-cum-Secretary, DESME, SD Tshering and Head of Sampling Unit of ISI, Dr. Prasanta Pathak as the guests of honour. The main objective of the training programme was to upgrade the skills of the personnel working in the Statistical field.
The ISI faculty members gave lectures on the Importance of statistics in today’s world by using computer application in statistics with the demonstration using Excel and SPSS software. The topics covered were Normal distribution, Time series analysis, State Domestic product, sampling techniques, survey data processing techniques etc.

Altogether, 42 number of officials from different departments underwent the training, the release informs. The valedictory programme was held on 11 June 2014 and was attended by the guest of honour Dr Aloke Kar of ISI, Kolkata and DG-Cum–Secretary DESME. The programme concluded by awarding certificates to the trainees.

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