Objective:
To impart understanding about use of open source R Studio and other tools for data analysis in research and education, to educate participants about use of basic and advanced statistical techniques on open source platform, to introduce about mobile apps &other ICT tools and their infrastructure for agricultural information dissemination and use in analysis
Pre Event Description :
A total of 92 participants including students and faculty members of SKRAU were given training about statistical techniques on R Studio software and its effective implementation on Agricultural Data by eminent faculties of ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi. Topics like introduction to R programming and R studio, Descriptive and Inferential statistics on open source platform, Data visualization tools using R, Database Management, Artificial Intelligence, Correlation and Regression, MANOVA, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Data Mining, Discriminant Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Association Rule Mining, Time series analysis, CART, Multi-dimensional Scaling, Parametric and non parametric tests, use of mobile apps and infrastructure and dissemination of information etc were included in the training. Eminent scientist from ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistical Research Institute, New Delhi visited campus and delivered lectures. Pre and post training assessments were also held to know the effectiveness of training and that showed positive impact of training