Facts cannot become subjects of debate. So when the census is not conducted, and an eminent statistician who was calling for it gets fired quietly, it’s time to worry.
At one point, India was the leading developing country that created a statistical system to monitor living standards. But today, there is rank confusion.
Legendary statistician CR Rao has been a recipient of not just the Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan, but also the prestigious International Prize in Statistics, awarded in 2023.
Indian-American statistician CR Rao is known for making seminal contributions to statistics such as development of Cramér-Rao Lower Bound, Rao-Blackwellization, & Lagrange multiplier test.
Averages are useful, to know where we're at in dealing with the pandemic, but there will be further flare-ups, easily large enough to overwhelm local resources.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
That is unfortunate, avoidable. At a time of growing formalisation of the economy, more use of banks and digital payments, when the quality of data collection can improve dramatically.
That is unfortunate, avoidable. At a time of growing formalisation of the economy, more use of banks and digital payments, when the quality of data collection can improve dramatically.