Workshop on Basics of Statistics
The Post-Graduate Department organised a 04 Hour Workshop on ‘Basics of Statistics’ for the students of M.Com Part I from 11th January to 14th January 2022 from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. The sessions were conducted through online mode via Google Meet platform. The objective of the workshop was to provide the students with a comprehensive knowledge of various statistical techniques and its practical usage in not only research but also in our day-to-day life. The Resource Person for the session was Dr. Dhaneesh Kumar, Assistant Professor, Dnyanprassarak Mandal’s College and Research Centre, Assagao. He explained all the topics theoretically and practically using various examples and practice problems.
On the first day, Mr. Dhaneesh emphasized on the basics and importance of various statistical tools and techniques in research as well as in today’s world, he started with the basic concept of ‘Mean’. He then went on to explain measures of central tendency and dispersion- its types, skewness which talks about the shape of the curve, and kurtosis which talks about the normality of the distribution along with probability distribution- normal, binomial, poisson distribution with practical examples for better understanding. At the end of the session the doubts raised by the students were clarified.
Day Two started with the concept of relationship analysis. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and regression analysis along with standard deviation and variance were covered with practical problems and examples for better understanding. Mr. Kumar addressed all the questions raised by the students at the end of the session. Overall it was an informative session.