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[Audio] Indian Statisticians and Their Contributions A Journey through Notable Achievements. BY:-VAISHNAV TAPKIR.

[Audio] Introduction In some ways, this is the best of times for data users in India. The number of public datasets grows each year, allowing users to discover new facets of the economy and the country. Data on several important economic parameters, from rural road construction to vehicle registration, are now available at a high frequency and granular level..

[Audio] Pramit Bhattacharya Pramit Bhattacharya writes the “Truth, Lies, and Statistics” column for Mint and the “Simply Economics” column for Hindustan Times, two of India’s leading dailies. Pramit was earlier the data editor at Mint, where he helped set up one of the country’s first data journalism units, “Plain Facts,” in 2014. He won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award 2015 in the “commentary and interpretative journalism” category for his explanatory economics column, “Economics Express.” Pramit was trained in the study of economics and contemporary India at Cotton College, Guwahati, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, and at the King’s India Institute, King’s College London. He can be reached at pramit_b@protonmail.com..

[Audio] SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY The statistical systems of countries are not always well-defined entities, and they can comprise multiple agencies. Yet every major economy has a statistical office that standardizes statistical practices across the country. These offices ensure that such standards are in line with international norms set by the United Nations Statistical Commission. Most statistical offices also tend to produce the key socioeconomic statistics for their countries..

[Audio] STATISTICS DURING THE RAJ: 1858–1947 Statistics in India is as old as statecraft. The ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, Arthashastra, refers to a network of village-level accountants who would collect data on economic output. The medieval-era text, Ain-i-Akbari, details an exhaustive apparatus to collect data on farm produce and mentions royal attempts to standardize the system of weights and measurements..

[Audio] Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) Nationality: German Major contribution: Early foundational mathematics Overview: A mathematical prodigy, Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss laid much of the groundwork for statistics, particularly in the area of probability theory. He may be best known for the method of least squares, which focuses on managing errors in observations..

[Audio] William Sealy Gosset (1876–1937) Nationality: British Major contribution: Development of t-distribution, a method for interpreting information extracted from small samples of data Overview: Among the most famous statisticians is a man who was not a statistician at all. William Sealy Gosset was, in fact, the head brewer of Guinness beer. Gosset was tasked with testing the consistency of hops in small batches and thus was born the now prominent t-distribution. Why isn’t he better known? When he published his findings, Gosset was required to adopt a pseudonym in order to protect Guinness trade secrets, so he is often recognized as “A.Student.”.

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