Objective:
This IMS sponsored mini-meeting
will have a flavor of workshop and will be designed to develop interaction
among the participating Statisticians ,Social scientists and Agricultural
scientists by the way of exchanging their ideas.Effort will be made
to identify the gap between the available theory and their practice. That
will further be strengthened by the discussion on the latest ideas
, concepts and applications of Statistical methods in the field of social
science and agricultural science. Impact assessment of some program ,modeling
of social and agricultural phenomenon,study of variability in the
field data, prediction , etc. are some major areas where the social scientists
and agricultural scientists need help of statistician for a valid conclusion.Discussion
will also be made on available statistical packages for the purpose of
data analysis and their right use.This workshop is interesting in the sense
that it will help reach Statistics to a group of scientists
who lack in the appropriate knowledge of Statistical methods and such a
workshop is very important because the inherent complexity
in the data arising out of the context of Social science and agricultural
science research makes the thing difficult to apply the standard
statistical practices.Variability in the data exists at different levels
because of the presence of dependence of unknown nature.Qualitative nature
of the data,non-normal distributionof the underlying variable,errors in
measurements ,unavailability of some observations are some of the
many reasons which prevent the direct application of the existing theory
and this meeting will try to see how the statisticians can
come out successful for rescue .