Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation (I/c) Shri Sriprakash Jaiswal has said that statistical data plays a vital role in assessing the impact of policy measure and also helps to identify the gaps. Addressing a gathering of distinguished and eminent statisticians of the world the 57th session of the International Statistical Institute in Durban in South Africa recently, he said that measurement of the achievements on ground is possible through the flow of information from the grass root level to national level and to the policy makers at the apex level.
The Minister also gave away the 4th International Award in Statistics to Prof. Pedro Alberto Morettin from Brazil for his outstanding contributions in various aspects of statistics in his capacity as Chairman and Dean, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo. Prof. Morettin has worked actively in Brazil and Latin America for the development of statistical discipline and has developed statistical literature in Portuguese. Congratulating the awardees, Shri Jaiswal said that better appreciation and recognition of statistics as a science today has come about with widespread and variegated use of statistics made possible by the lifetime contributions of a galaxy of great statisticians all over the world.
The award has been instituted in memory of Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation in 2003 in collaboration with International Statistical Institute to identify and recognize eminent statisticians from the developing countries for their lifetime contribution. It aims at attracting, inspiring and motivating promising statisticians from across the developing countries.
The Minister also gave away the 4th International Award in Statistics to Prof. Pedro Alberto Morettin from Brazil for his outstanding contributions in various aspects of statistics in his capacity as Chairman and Dean, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo. Prof. Morettin has worked actively in Brazil and Latin America for the development of statistical discipline and has developed statistical literature in Portuguese. Congratulating the awardees, Shri Jaiswal said that better appreciation and recognition of statistics as a science today has come about with widespread and variegated use of statistics made possible by the lifetime contributions of a galaxy of great statisticians all over the world.
The award has been instituted in memory of Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation in 2003 in collaboration with International Statistical Institute to identify and recognize eminent statisticians from the developing countries for their lifetime contribution. It aims at attracting, inspiring and motivating promising statisticians from across the developing countries.
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