WORKSHOP ON APPLICATION OF ADVANCED MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TOOLS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHES

Program Schedule

    10.8.06
        9:30    :          Registration
        10:00             Inauguration
                                     Professor Amita Majumder (Professor-in-charge, Social Sciences Division): Inaugural Address
                                     Dr.Anjali Ghosh (Head, Psychology research Unit): Welcome Address
                                     Professor A.K. Chatterjee, (Dept. of Applied Psychology, C.U.)
                                     Professor Biswanath Roy (Ex-Dir. NCERT (E)); Ex-President, Section: Anthropological and Behavioural Sciences (including                                 Archaeology and Psychology & Educational Sciences): Key Note Address
        10:45-11:00   Tea Break
       11:00-12:00    Discussion on Current Needs of Statistical Methods in Psychological and Educational Research :Users' Perspectives
                                   Professor Biswanath Roy, (Ex-Dir. NCERT (E))
                                   Professor A.K. Chatterjee, (Dept. of Applied Psychology, C.U.)
                                   Professor B.K. Sinha (Stat-Math unit, ISI, Kolkata; Ex-President, Statistics Section, Indian Sc.
                                   Congress; Member, National Statistical Commission)
       12:00-13:00    Introduction to Multivariate Statistics
                                   Professor Debapriya Sengupta, (Stat-Math unit, ISI, Kolkata)
        13:00-14:00   Lunch Break
        14:00-15:30   Univariate and Multivariate Analysis of Variance
                                   Professor Ayanendra Nath Basu (Applied Statistics Unit, ISI, Kolkata)
        15:30-15:45   Coffee Break
        15:45-17:00   Stepwise and Hierarchical Regression Analysis
                                   Dr. Debasish Roy, (C.S.S.C. unit, ISI, Kolkata)
        17:00-18:30   Lab Work at CSSC unit.
                                   Faculty and Research fellows of the Psychology Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata
    11.8.06
        10:00-11:00   Hierarchical and Non-hierarchical Cluster Analysis
                                   Professor Debasis Sengupta (Applied Statistics Unit, , ISI, Kolkata)
        11:00-11:15   Tea Break
        11:15-11:45   Application of Principal Component Analysis in Psychology and Education
                                   Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy (Psychology Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata)
        11:45-13:00   Lab Work at CSSC unit.
        13:00-14:00   Lunch Break
        14:00-15:00   Application of Correspondence Analysis
                                   Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy (Psychology Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata)
        15:00-15:15   Coffee Break
        15:15-16:15   Discriminant Function Analysis
                                   Professor Debasis Sengupta (Applied Statistics Unit, , ISI, Kolkata)
        16:15-17:30   Item Response Theory
                                   Shri Subir Mitra (Ex-STA, Psychology Research Unit)
        17:30-18:15   Valedictory Session and Certificates Distribution
                                   Prof. Mallika Banerjee (Department of Psychology, Calcutta University.):Use of Multivariate Statistical Tools in Small and Large sample researches in Psychology
                                   Prof. Sanat Ghosh (Department of Education, Rabindrabharati University): Importance of Multivariate Statistical Tools in Researches on education
        18:15-18:30   Vote of Thanks
                                   Dr. Rumki Gupta (Psychology Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata)

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