Statistics

Since its inception in 1988, the Department of Statistics has been one of the college\’s leading departments. There are very few colleges in West Bengal offering statistics at the undergraduate level outside of Kolkata, and Haldia Government College is one of them. Currently, the Department of Statistics of the college has a good strength of teaching staff. The department has separate computer laboratories for the teachers and students. The department also has a seminar library consisting of an excellent range of text and reference books, which are accessible to the students. The faculties of the department are engaged in various UGC-sponsored Minor Research Projects along with their involvement in the teaching of all normal courses. The department also holds seminars or workshops at regular intervals. Presently, the head of the department is Dr. Shyamsundar Sahoo.
Statistics is an emerging scientific discipline that focuses on learning from data, which involves collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation utilising inductive reasoning based on the Theory of Probability. It has wide applications in almost every field of science and technology, and consequently, students with statistics have job or career opportunities in several government and private sectors. The course structure at Vidyasagar University is very well-designed with components from the disciplines of Statistics, Mathematics, Economics and Computer Programming. After completing the undergraduate course, the students of this department get an opportunity to pursue a Master’s degree at several prestigious universities and institutions, including IIT-Kanpur, Calcutta University, Banaras Hindu University, Presidency University, Delhi University, Pondichery University and others. The students of the department have established themselves in various academic and business sectors.

Only those students who pass the H.S. examination with Mathematics as a main subject are eligible to apply for the B.Sc. Honours in Statistics or B.Sc. Honours in Statistics with Research program in the college.

Events organized by the Department:

• State-sponsored workshop on “Applications and Career Aspects of Statistics” held on 7th October, 2013.
• One-Day seminar on “An Overview of Clinical Research: Career Opportunities in Biostatistics & SAS Programming” held on 31st October, 2014.
• Seminar lecture on “Accelerating Science and Skilling for the Next-Generation of Jobs: A Global Exposure” held on 1st March, 2017.
• One-Day seminar on “Probability and Statistics” in collaboration with the Calcutta Statistical Association on 5th March, 2018.
• Science Festival “PARADOX-2019” on 27th November, 2019.
• Webinar on “An Introduction to Probability and Statistics” on 3rd August, 2020.
• Webinar on “The Theory of Percolation” on 3rd August, 2020.
• Webinar on “Application of Statistics in Marketing Industry” on 30th November, 2021.