B.Sc. Statistics

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

Department of Statistics has been offering B.Sc.(Statistics) programme from 1984 with affiliation from University of Madras. The Department was recognised as a Research department by the University of Madras from 2012 for offering M.Phil. & Ph.D. Programmes in Statistics. So far 22 M.Phil. scholars & one Ph.D. scholar have graduated from the department while one Ph.D. scholar has submitted the Thesis to University of Madras. Currently 3 full time & 4 part time Ph.D. scholars are pursuing their research in the broad areas of Multivariate analysis, Survival Analysis, generalised Linear Models & Fuzzy Data Analysis under faculty from the department.

The department has well equipped Research Laboratory having 15 computers systems with internet facility & latest Licensed software like IBM SPSS Statistics 23, AMOS & SYSTAT and freely downloadable R programming Language apart from excellent computer labs provided by the College for conducting courses on software & computer programmes. Undergraduate students are offered programming skills in C/C++ & R language and MS EXCEL & SPSS for Data Analysis. Hands-on training on Exploratory Data Analysis through group Mini Projects is a salient feature of the programme. Apart from these students take-up Computing Skills as a Self Learning Component and Spoken Tutorials offered by Ministry of HRD and IIT Bombay as soft-skills component.

STATISTICAL SPECTRUM 2022-2023

COURSES OFFERED

B.Sc STATISTICS

M.Phil STATISTICS ( Full Time – 8, Part Time – 4)

Ph.D

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

The department has well equipped Research Laboratory having 15 computers with internet facility & latest Licensed software like IBM SPSS Statistics 23, AMOS & SYSTAT and freely downloadable R programming Language apart from excellent computer labs provided by the College for conducting courses on software & computer programmes. Undergraduate students are offered programming skills in C/C++ & R language and MS EXCEL & SPSS for Data Analysis & group mini-projects for hands on training. Post graduate students are offers courses on latest research areas like Categorical Data Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, Data Mining Techniques & SAS programming to suit both Industry & Higher education needs.

Statistics Association (d-ANALYTICA)

d-ANALYTICA conducts inter department and inter collegiate activities every year to bring out the statistics talent of the students . More than ten colleges participate within and outside Chennai. Some of the events organized by the association are Stat Hunt, face painting, collage, creative singing, poster presentation, paper presentation, treasure hunt, pot painting, quiz, poster making, Tricky stats, case study etc.

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL CONF/SEMINAR/WORKSHOP ORGANIZED

Year	National_Seminar Conferrence Workshop	Topics	Dates	Funding Agency
2005-2006	State	Workshop on Data analysis using SPSS	January 2006	–
2010-2011	National Seminor	Career Avanues for bio statistical in clinical research	March 2011	UGC
2012-2013	National Seminor	Statistics in Life Sciences	January 2012	UGC
2014-2015	National Seminor	National level advanced orientation in programme in statistics	August 2014	NBHM
2015-2016	International Workshop	International workshop on Introductory SAS & R	March 2015	UGC
2018-2019	International Workshop	International Workshop on Statistics and Programming	December 2018	–
2019-2020	State	Faculty Development Program on Predictive Analysis using Python	October 2019	–
2019-2020	National Level	Data Science- The recent trends and Technology	June 2020	ICT academy
2019-2020	National Level	Practical Machine Learning Using R By Mrs.V.Tharangini, Lead Data Scientist, Happiest Minds Technologies, Bangalore	June 2020	–
2020-2021	National Level	Binary logistic regression By Dr.N.Vishvanadhan, Associate Professor, Presidency College, Chennai	June 2020	–
2020-2021	International Level	Data Science in the Real World” by Mr. Vishnu Sharon Ramesh, Data Scientist, ZYPTV,CA,USA	January 2021	–
2020-2021	National Level	A Classification Technique Under Supervised Learning” by Prof. Kanchan Jain, Panjab University Chandigarh.	March 2021	–