Department of Stats and Maths Celebrates National Statistics day

Department of Statistics and Department of Mathematics celebrated National Statistics day by organising an “Online Quiz on Data Interpretation on 29th June and workshop on the software “MS-EXCEL” on 30th June to commemorate the Birth Anniversary of Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.

132 students from science and commerce participated in the online quiz competition on statistical data interpretation.

This deliberative two hour training workshop was conducted by Mr. Sanjit Jha, a Freelance Corporate Full-stack Trainer on 30th June at 12:00 noon for the UG students.

This workshop was participated by 82 students from all the streams of UG level. The main objective of the workshop was to familiarize our students with the various uses and functionalities of the software MS-EXCEL. The workshop was conducted online using the ZOOM platform.

Mr. Jha explained the uses of simple functions like sum, average, product, division, max, min, text function and various ways of formatting the entered data, explaining lucidly with the help of dataset. He also discussed the use of standard operators like AVERAGEIF, COUNTIF and various mathematical and statistical functions. He also taught the various paste special techniques that are available with EXCEL.

This workshop served its prime objective to expose the various tools of MS-EXCEL to the UG level students that are necessary for data handling, data entry and data analysis.

The workshop ended with immensely positive feedback given by the students.