Mangaluru: Department of Statistics of St. Agnes College organized a two-day national level workshop on Structural Equation Modeling on July 12 and 13.
The workshop was inaugurated on July 12 and was open to the Faculty members, research scholars and students of various constituent colleges of the country. As many as 62 delegates representing 32 institutions participated in this workshop.
Dr. Ismail B, Former Chairperson and Professor of Statistics Mangalore University was the chief guest of the programme. Sr Dr M. Jeswina AC, principal, St. Agnes College Mangaluru, presided over the function.
Inaugurating the programme, Dr. Selvamani R IAS, CEO of Zilla Panchayat, DK said that even though official statistics is considered as one of the yardsticks of development, it need not necessarily indicate real development as the 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 said. He focused on the fact that 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.
In her address to the gathering, Sr Dr Jeswina enlightened the audience with the applications of SEM and also mentioned about the Institution’s centenary programme.
This programme was designed to equip the participants with adequate knowledge about the various coding forms and data reduction techniques with a structural relationship between the variables.
Earlier, the programme began with a prayer and was followed by a welcome address by Shubharekha, programme coordinator. The programme was concluded with a vote of thanks by Harshini.
