Achievements

Achievements

NAIP Consortium on Strengthening Statistical Computing for NARS (www.iasri.res.in/sscnars) targets at providing

research guidance in statistical computing and creating sound and healthy statistical computing environment and
providing advanced, versatile, innovative and state-of the-art high end statistical packages for analysis of data so as to enable drawing meaningful and valid inferences and converting research output into knowledge
The efforts also involve design intelligent algorithms to implement statistical techniques particularly for analyzing massive data sets, simulation, bootstrap, etc

To strengthen the high end statistical computing environment for the scientists in NARS
To organize customized training programmes and also to develop training modules and manuals for the trainers at various hubs
To sensitize the Scientists in NARS with the Statistical computing facility and statistical techniques.

Procurement and Installation

A General purpose Statistical Software Package has been procured with 151 licenses including one Enterprise Business Intelligence Server for perpetual use with three years updates and upgrades. The package can be installed on multiple official machines both in standalone as well as intranet mode. The software is installed on 2750 computers of 151 NARS organizations (on an average more than 18 computers per NARS organization)

Capacity Building

209 trainers have been trained through 30 working days training programmes on SAS: A Comprehensive Overview and SAS Genetics/JMP Genomics and 6 days training programme on Data Analysis Using SAS across 85 NARS organizations
180 research personnel have been trained in the Installation of the software

2166 research personnel have been trained on Data Analysis using SAS through 104 training programmes of one week duration each including 37 trainings at different organizations and 15 subject specific training programmes

164 researchers have been trained by nodal officers at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore and NRCAF, Jhansi; IGFRI, Jhansi; Junagarh Agricultural University, Junagarh; IGKV, Raipur

Organized 21 Sensitization workshops at Directorate of Sorghum Research, Hyderabad; Directorate of Oilseeds Research, Hyderabad; Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi; ICAR RCER, Patna; NCAP, New Delhi; NBAIM, Mau; Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agricultural and Technology, Meerut; NCIPM, New Delhi; Project Directorate on Cattle, Meerut; IIVR, Varanasi; DOGR, Pune; ICAR RC NEHR Sikkim; CIFE, Mumbai; NDRI, Karnal; College of Agriculture, Baptla (ANGRAU); TANUVAS, Chennai; NBPGR, New Delhi; SVPUAT, Meerut and MPUAT, Udaipur.

Indian NARS Statistical Computing Portal

For providing service oriented computing, Indian NARS Statistical Computing portal has been established which is available to NARS users through IP authentication at http://stat.iasri.res.in/sscnarsportal. Any researcher from Indian NARS may obtain User name and password from Nodal Officers of their respective NARS organizations, list available at www.iasri.res.in/sscnars. It is a paradigm of computing techniques that operate on software-as-a-service). There is no need of installation of statistical package at client side.

The above modules can be used by uploading *.xlsx, *.csv and *.txt files and results can be saved as *.RTF or *.pdf files. This has helped them in analyzing their data in an efficient manner without losing any time.

Macros for Customized Analysis

For customized analysis, macros for analysis of augmented designs, split split plot designs, split factorial designs, econometric analysis (diversity indices, instability index, compound growth rate, Garret scoring technique and Demand analysis using LA-AIDS model) have been developed and made available on the project website