Topic: Statistics

The BJP’s 2014 manifesto promised ‘real-time data’. Now, the Modi government has no data on migrant workers’ deaths during Covid pandemic.

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.

Economists aren’t buying the Statistics Department’s methodology for calculating India’s consumer price inflation numbers for April and May.

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.

The delay of high-frequency indicators such as inflation and industrial production may cloud the near-term assessment of economic trends.

The draft National Statistical Commission Bill, put out by Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, is open for public suggestions until 19 January.

Statistical significance can be misleading because it sets an arbitrary threshold on the level of uncertainty science should be willing to accept.

Amid talk of jobless growth and the urgent need for India to create employment for its millions of young men and women, the Chief Statistician of India, T.C.A. Ananth, says there is not much evidence to show that the unemployment scenario may have worsened in the last three or four years. Anubhuti Vishnoi

In recent months, many allegations have been made about fudging of official data by government departments in both the centre and the states. How...