KASTURBA GANDHI DEGREE & PG COLLEGE FOR WOMEN

WEST MARREDPALLY, SECUNDERABAD, TELANGANA - 500026

(Sponsored & Managed Jointly by the Osmania Graduates’ Association And The Exhibition Society, Hyderabad)

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Statistics is an application – oriented subject, which is widely used in all disciplines. It serves as an important tool in the analysis and presentation of information. Keeping in view, the ever-increasing demand of the subject in the corporate world, the college introduced the subject in the year 2000 in combination with Mathematics and Computer Science.

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The initial intake was 30 students and one teaching faculty. At present there are two lecturers in the department.As the demand for the subject is increasing day by day as it is useful for higher learning, a second section was started in the year 2008 with an additional in take of 39. Since the subject is practical oriented, to inculcate research attitude, the students in the department are encouraged to take up group projects. The Department has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the company Sigma India Pvt.Ltd.

NAME QUALIFICATION DESIGNATION EXPERIENCE
Dr.D.Lalitha Devi M.Sc., Ph.D(OU) H.O.D, Associate Professor 27 Years
Ms.K.Sangeetha M.Sc., B.Ed.(OU) Assistant Professor 17 Years
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Achievements Of The Department

Faculty Achievements

  • Ms. K. Sangeetha Presented a Paper in an international Conference in Mizoram University.
  • Dr. D. Lalitha Devi and Ms. K. Sangeetha presented a paper titled as, “Causative factors of Malnutrition and Preventive measures” on Feb 2nd 2023, organized by the Dept. of Statistics, Pachhunga University college, Mizoram University.
  • Dr. D. Lalitha Devi, Head, Department of Statistics, KGCW, has been appointed as BOS for St. Anns, Mehadipatnam from the year 2021-2022 onwards.
  • Dr.D.Lalitha Devi, Head, Department of Statistics,gave a guest talk on the topic:”Applications of Data Science in Multivariate Data Analysis” on the occasion of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of SV University.
  • Ms.K.Sangeetha, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics gave a guest talk on the topic:”Applications of Data Science in Health Care” on the occasion of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of SV University.
  • Dr.D.Lalitha Devi, Head, Department of Statistics presented a paper titled “Secular trend in dietary patterns and BMI among youth-A case study” in the International conference.
  • Ms.K.Sangeetha, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics presented a paper titled “Secrets of cow milk to combat obesity and to develop immunity-A case study” in the International conference
  • Dr.D.Lalitha Devi, Head, Department of Statistics was awarded “Best Teacher Award” for the year 2021 by the Red Cross Society, Hyderabad.
  • Dr. D. Lalitha Devi published a paper titled “A Statistical case study on usage of ICT in teaching in various schools and colleges of Secunderabad” in UGC approved journal SAEJ, Vol.24,Issue 9 2020.
  • Dr. D. Lalitha Devi and Ms. M. Divya presented a paper on “Data Science in Product Bundling – Evidence from an online pizza store” at a National Seminar organized by Department of Statistics, OU.
  • Ms. K. Sangeetha published a paper titled “Prevalence of obesity and causative factors in school going children- A statistical study” in IJSR.
  • Dr.D.Lalitha Devi attended a two day National conference on Data Science a Statistical perspective
  • Organized by Department of Statistics –UCS, O.U
  • Ms.M.Divya presented a paper Titled “DATA SCIENCE IN PRODUCT BUNDLING – EVIDENCE FROM AN ONLINE PIZZA STORE.
  • Dr.D.Lalitha Devi as BoS for Nalgonda Government Degree College
  • Dr.Lalitha &Ms.Sangeetha Analysed the Data of Ms.N.Aruna Principal VJIT on MSME (Dept. of Commerce)
  • Dr.D.Lalitha Devi was invited as Guest of honour at National Sample Survey Office Function Organized by NSSO.
  • Dr.Lalitha &Ms.Sangeetha analysed the data for Ms.Sulekha in the subject Library Science O.U
  • Dr.D.Lalitha Devi Chaired a session at IEEE conference, Chirala Andhra Pradesh.
  • Dr.D.Lalitha Devi has been invited as guest at St.Anns Mehdipatnam to inaugurate the Statistics club.
  • Ms.K.Sangeetha &Dr.D.Lalitha Devi Published a paper in International Journal
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Students Achievements

  • Ms. Aakanksha Nayak from B.Sc. III Year Secured First Prize in Elocution Competetion conducted by NSSO on the occasion of National Statistics Day 2023
  • Students of Statistics Dept. have secured PG Seats in Osmania University in CPGET- 2022.
  • Students have bagged 1st and 2nd prizes for paper presentation & poster presentation respectively at National Colloquim organised by St.Anns College Mehidipatnam
  • Ms.A.Swapna won first prize in Essay Writing Competition in “Sustainable Development Goals” organised by NSSO on account of National Statistics Day
  • Staff and Students participated in birth Centenary celebrations of Prof.C.R.Rao at AIMSCs, Gachibowli on 7th February 2020
  • Ms.Ragini has been selected for a two month internship by NSSO in Field Operations Division
  • Ms.Asha Gupta & Ms.Lipika,Ms.Sharanya have bagged prizes in Elocution and Power point presentation competitions respectively on “ADMINISTRATIVE STATISTICS” organised by NSSO on account of National Statistics Day

A three day Skill Development Program - “Survey Data Analysis Using SPSS” was conducted in collaboration with Sigma India Company

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Every year students of our Department visit SADHANA –Institute for Mentally Challenged as a part of community connect.

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The Department has visited and served the cows as a part of Decennial Celebrations of Community Connect.

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Free distribution of Eco friendly Clay Ganesha Idols as a Green Club Activity

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Dr. T. Sameer Nandan, DNB/MD Family Medicine, General Physician & Diabetologist, SSS Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Puttaparti presented a seminar on 16/05/2022, titled as “Well Being of Women”. Speaker emphasized on the health of women as they are the pillars behind a successful society. A healthy society is built by a healthy and independent women. He discussed the importance of well being of women and explained tips to improve ones health.

V. Vishwa Mohan, M.A., MLISc., Ph.D.Retired Professor(OU) presented a webinar on 30th Sep 2021, titled as “Formulation of Hypothesis”. Speaker emphasized on the importance of knowing the objective of experiment to frame a better hypothesis. He explained about different types of Hypothesis taking real life examples.

L.N. Yashaswy. A,Doctoral Candidate in Marketing, IIM Ahmedabad presented a webinar on 17th July 2021, titled as “Overview of R-Programming”. The speaker emphasized on the importance and applications of R programming language. He explained the basics of coding in R programming by considering different examples. He also stressed on the syntaxes and rules of using R programming. He also explained the procedures of importing the documents and explained how to save the programs after getting the output. Difference between R programming & Python was also discussed.

Dr.RameshAthe,Assistant Professor,IIIT Dharwad, Karnataka,Department of Data Science and Intelligence Systems presented a webinar on 18th Sep 2021 titled as “Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”. The speaker emphasized on the applications of statistics in Meta-Analysis and discussed real life examples. He also explained the importance of doing research and emphasized on paper publications. He gave few tips for choosing the objective of study and showed the procedure of navigating through PubMed applications.

Dr. U. V. Somayajulu, Co-Founder, CEO, Sigma Research and consulting Pvt Limited, New Delhi presented a webinar on 10th Sep 2020, titled as “ SIGNIFICANCE OF STATISTICS IN POPULATION HEALTH RESEARCH”. The speaker emphasized on the importance of statistics in Health domain. He explained different concepts like problem formulation, sampling frame, pilot survey, population, sampling techniques, data preprocessing tools etc. with relevant examples.

Dr. DebarshiDey, Associate Director,MorphosysAG, Munich,Germany presented a webinar on 29thJune 2020, titled as “How to Become Effective Statisticians”. The speaker emphasized on the applications of statistics in Pharmacuetical Industry and gave few tips to become an effective statistician. He also discussed real examples and explained the statistical tools to be applied in pharmaceutical field. He also encouraged students to become data analysts.

Prof.A.Dhandapani, Professor and Principal scientist at ICAR-NAARM presented a webinar on 27th May 2020, titled as “ National Webinar on Statistics & Agriculture”. Speaker emphasized on the real life applications of Statistics in the field of agriculture. Sir shared a different perspective of statistics and discussed different examples in Agriculture and Design of Experiments using Statistics. He also explained different statistical tools used in the analysis of Designs of Experiment and Agriculture.

SVSRK BHARADWAJ, Senior Manager - Operations, Sigma Research and Consulting New Delhi, India organized a two day Workshop on 28/12/2019 & 29/12/2019, titled as “ Skill Development Program on Survey Data Analysis Using SPSS”. The speaker emphasized on various methods used in SPSS. The speaker gave a brief idea on skill development, research design, selection of a sample, data collection, selection of respondent’s etc. Many real life examples were also given for easy understanding of the students.

Dr. D. Lalitha Devi, Head, Associate Professor,Department of Statistics,KGCW presented a seminar on 25/10/2018, titled as “ Steps involved in Quantitative Research”. The speaker emphasized on various methods used in quantitative research. The speaker gave a brief idea on hypothesis, research design, selection of a research site, data collection, selection of respondent’s etc. Many real life examples were also given for easy understanding of the students.

Ms. K. Sangeetha , Assistant Professor, departmet of statistics , KGCW presented a seminar on 20 September 2017, titled as “ Sampling Designs and Method of Data Collection”. The Speaker Emphasized on various designs of samples and collection of data by using statistics techniques. The speaker explained real life applications with suitable examples.

Events

On the occasion of National Statistics Day 2023 students participated in Quiz and Elocution competitions organised by NSSO and won prizes

On the occasion of Women's Day Celebrations 2023, the students of Statistics Dept. have attended a seminar on “ Data Science and Its Prospectus” held at Indian Statistical Institute, Hubsiguda, Hyderabad.

On the occasion of National Statistic Day Celebrations 2022, The Department of Statistics released a customized calendar and e-newsletter (Sankhya Samachar).

On the occasion of National Statistic Day Celebrations 2022, the students of Dept. Of statistics participated in quiz competition and essay writing competitions conducted by NSSO. Students got to know about National sample survey office and its functions, also had discussion with NSSO chief.

On the occasion of National Statistic Day Celebrations 2021, the students of Dept. of statistics performed a skit on the Importance of Statistics and conducted a Quiz on the topic of “Real life Applications of Statistics”

MoU’s – Objectives & Benefits:

The Department signed an MoU with “Sigma India.org – an Analytics Company” to facilitate students for Internships and skill based training programs / workshops on the recent updates in the field of statistics.

Advanced learners are encouraged for Internships to work with real time data for practical application of the subject.

Seminars / Workshops / Skill based training programs are conducted for the benefit of the students to create a platform for understanding the recent changes in the subject.

  • E - Newsletter.
  • Customized Calendar
  • SAC (Statistics Activity Center)
  • Students Seminars.
  • Train the Trainee.
  • Sa(M)pling Drive.
  • Distribution of Eco friendly Ganesha.
  • An Hour with our alumnae.
  • Weaversmart to Weaver’s Mart: A trip to Pochampally, GI of Telangana.
  • Project work.
  • Community connect: A visit to “Sadhana – A home for differently abled orphans”.
  • Club activities.

YEAR : I YEAR

SEMESTER : I SEMESTER

COURSE :DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS & PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

  • To understand different types of data, collection, classification and tabulation of data. Application oriented learning through interpretation of data using different diagrammatic and graphical representations
  • Practical way of learning the basics of central tendencies and measures of dispersion
  • Identifying the concept of uncertainty and probability. Exploring different applications of probability with examples
  • Ability to differentiate types of random variables and applications using different random variables
  • To apply different discrete distributions and understand their uses in real life. The importance of Binomial and Poisson distributions are explained with examples
  • The detailed importance of Negative Binomial, Geometric and Hyper Geometric distributions are studied along with practical problems
  • The concept of continuous random variables and its applications in different distributions is shown. Continuous distributions like Uniform, Exponential, Beta and Gamma are understood with examples
  • The importance of Normal distribution, Cauchy distribution their applications are learnt

YEAR : I YEAR

SEMESTER : II SEMESTER

COURSE : STATISTICAL METHODS & INFERENCE

  • Differentiating linear and non linear variables and identifying the relationship between two or more variables.
  • Practical orientation for predicting the variables with real life examples
  • Understanding the concepts of estimation theory with definitions and different criteria to identify the best estimator
  • Learning the basics of hypothesis testing
  • Ability to differentiate small sample tests and large sample tests
  • Application oriented learning to give valid conclusions by solving problems using different small sample tests
  • Practical orientation to understand different applications of large sample tests
  • Understand the concept of Non Parametric tests, the importance of NP Tests, their uses and advantages over parametric tests
  • To learn different methods to solve the problems using Non Parametric methods and also ability to identify different NP methods as an alternative to parametric methods

YEAR : III YEAR

SEMESTER : V SEMESTER

COURSE : SAMPLING THEORY ,TIME SERIES, INDEX NUMBERS AND DEMAND ANALYSIS

  • Able to prepare a schedule for the survey and will be able to draw representative data
  • Different types of sampling helps in deciding the suitability of the data
  • Time series Analysis always helps in predicting or forecasting. Students in the year 2018 predicted the profits of AMUL milk products for the year 2020
  • Demand analysis explains about the demand and supply and demand and price of the products. This enables the students to estimate current trends in price and supply

YEAR : III YEAR

SEMESTER : V SEMESTER

COURSE : STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL AND RELIABILITY THEORY

  • Quality control explains and helps in understanding whether the process is in control or not. Different control charts are available for different products
  • Acceptance Sampling plans are the plans to decide regarding the quality of a product
  • Reliability explains the warranty and guarantee of the product

YEAR : III YEAR

SEMESTER : VI SEMESTER

COURSE : : DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS, VITAL STATISTICS, OFFICIAL STATISTICS AND BUSINESS FORECASTING

  • Analysis of Variance is widely used in Agricultural research analysis. For any research question application of ANOVA is must
  • Vital statistics is an important concept in estimating the gross reproduction rate
  • This is most useful in estimating the specific death rates in epidemic, endemic and pandemic
  • Index numbers always show the change in price and quantity when compared base year (prices and quantity) with current year (price and quantity)

YEAR : III YEAR

SEMESTER : VI SEMESTER

COURSE :OPERATIONS RESEARCH

  • OR techniques are used in all most all fields. The main concept is the optimization of time and cost involved and maximizing the profits
  • Transportation problems deal with the techniques to implement in the transportation mode like how to reduce the shipping cost and how to save power and energy