Page 4 - Statistics

Damn lies and the truth

Book review of How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

Bureaucrat Kshatrapati Shivaji takes up India's top statistical post

But he has only been given additional charge, and govt has not appointed a full-time chief statistician yet

Happy National Statistics Day: How do we square jobs data with reality

The experience of the past three months provides proof that Indians do not protest loss of jobs. They just drop their rates and continue with their lives

MoSPI should end controversies related to GDP computation: Rangarajan

Gets lifetime achievement award on National Statistics Day

Covid-19 to structurally change collection of data for official statistics

The National Statistics Office is exchanging ideas with international agencies about handling data and statistics amid the pandemic situation

India's GDP growth at 4.7% in Dec quarter, marginal improvement over Q2

FY20 growth projections retained at 5% in the second advance estimates. The official Q3 GDP data showed that the impact of a global slowdown and weak manufacturing continued to weigh on the economy

Over 200 global economists seek junked NSO report details from govt

Chorus to make junk NSO report public grows

Best of BS Opinion: Why the govt must step in to help telecom companies

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Dump 'Statistical significance'

Critics argue that statistical significance can be misleading because it sets an arbitrary threshold on the level of uncertainty science should be willing to accept

Modernisation of official statistics

We need to eliminate information asymmetry at all levels. Here is a road map

Statistics office unveil supply-use table to address discrepancies in GDP data

This is for the first time the CSO has compiled the SUTs with 140 products and 66 industries of the Indian economy