Mangaluru: St Agnes College dept of statistics conduct workshop on Structural Equation Modeling


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Mangaluru, Jul 13: Department of Statistics of St Agnes College on July 12 and 13 organised a two day national level workshop on Structural Equation Modeling with the inaugural function on July 12.

The programme was open to the faculty members, research scholars and students of various constituent colleges of the country. 62 delegates representing 32 institutions in the country participated in the workshop.

The programme began with a prayer proceeded by the welcome address by Shubharekha, programme coordinator. The chief guest was Dr Ismail B, former chairperson and professor of Statistics Mangalore University. Dr Selvamani R IAS, CEO of zillapanchayat, DK inaugurated the workshop.



Sr Dr M Jeswina AC, principal, St Agnes College, here, presided over the function.

The guests inspired the audience and wished them success in the Workshop. Dr Selvamani said, "Even though official statistics is considered as one of the yardsticks of development, it need not necessarily indicate the real development as official statistics and real statistics differ a lot. We have plenty of data what is necessary for the time is to extract knowledge from the collected data." He focused on the fact that the real time data plays a very significant role in any field of social or agricultural sciences.

The chief guest gave a statistical touch to his expression and explained the need and importance of structural equation modeling. He stressed on manipulation, duplication and nonresponse data which may lead to error. Statistical techniques have shown tremendous development over the years.

Principal Sr Dr M Jeswina AC presided over the programme and in her address she enlightened the audience with the applications of SEM and also mentioned about the centenary programme. This programme was designed to equip the participants with adequate knowledge about the various coding forms and data reduction techniques with structural relationship between the variables.

The programme concluded with vote of thanks by Harshini.

  

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