International Conference On

RECENT ADVANCES IN STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTIn conjunction with

XXXIX ANNUAL CONVENTION OF

INDIAN SOCIETY FOR PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS (ISPS)

21 – 23rd December, 2019

&National Workshop on

MODERN REGRESSION METHODS USING R20th December, 2019

POST GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICSUTKAL UNIVERSITY, VANI VIHAR, BHUBANESWAR – 751004, ODISHA, INDIA

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Convener

Prof. Kunja Bihari Panda

Professor and Head

Mobile: - +91-9437357249

Organizing Secretary

Dr. Priyaranjan Dash

Reader

Mobile: - +91-9438206307

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The theme of this conference is the “Recent advances in Statistics and Data Science for Sustainable

Development” in recognition of the advent of Statistics and Data Science. This conference plans to provide a

forum for interaction and knowledge sharing among academicians, data analysts, practitioners, researchers and

students in the domain of both Statistics and Data Science. It provides a platform to present their research

findings in the frontier areas of statistics and data science. The topics covered in the conferences are timely

and have great impact on data sciences, identifying important directions for future research, promoting

advanced statistical methods in big data science, and facilitating future collaborations across disciplines and

between theory and practice. Critical data for global, regional and national development policy making are still

lacking. Making good use of big data will require collaboration of various factors including researchers, data

scientists and practitioners. The target of hosting the conference is to make a rendezvous of statistical

researchers to explore their remarkable contribution and journey through new vistas of the advances in

Statistics and Data Sciences.

Co-Convener (Accounts)

Dr. Ranjan Kumar Sahoo

Assistant Professor

Mobile: - +91-9015146613

Co-Convener (Technical)

Dr. Prafulla Kumar Swain

Assistant Professor

Mobile: - +91-9015146613

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY

Utkal University (NAAC ‘A+’ accredited), Bhubaneswar is the 17th oldest University of India and the

mother University of the state of Odisha. Being established in 1943, it caters to the learning needs of

about 1.5 crore people belonging to nine districts of the state. It is a teaching-cum-research university

offering 27 full-fledged regular Post-Graduate Departments and 17 Self-Financing programs within the

campus.

The Utkal University is one among the ten best public funded state universities in the country. The

University is situated in the heart of the city. The University has completed its 75th year of excellence

and celebrating its Platinum Jubilee. In this occasion the department would like to host the ISPS, 2019

annual conference at Utkal University.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Post Graduate Department of Statistics is one of the oldest and leading departments of the Utkal

University. The Department of Statistics was established way back in 1958 and flourished under the

guidance of late Prof. Bama Charan Das and Late Dr. Chakradhar Mishra. Late Prof. Sadhu Charan Das,

had the distinction and privilege of being its first Head. Subsequently, Prof. J. Sarangi (Ph.D., University

of Alberta, Canada) steered the Department to a new height. Prof. A.K.P.C. Swain, Late Prof. I.S. Rao,

Prof. L.N. Sahoo, Prof. G. Mishra, Prof. B.K. Pradhan & Prof. P.K. Tripathy were the distinguished

faculty primarily responsible for leading the Department to its present status. The Department in its 60-

year span of existence has enriched the society by producing very distinguished academicians,

researchers, administrators, entrepreneurs and so on and so forth.

Currently, the department has four regular faculty members, Prof. K. B. Panda, Dr. P. R. Dash, Dr. R. K.

Sahoo and Dr. P. K. Swain. The department now offers MA/M.Sc., M.Phil., and Ph.D. courses in

Statistics and also one self-financing course viz. M.Tech.(IT). The thrust areas of the research are;

Survey sampling, Demography, Stochastic modelling, Operations Research, Biostatistics and Survival

Analysis. .

ABOUT LOCATION/ SIGHTSEEING

Bhubaneswar is the capital of the Indian state of Odisha. It is the centre of economic and cultural

importance in Eastern India. Historically, it was often depicted as Ekamra Kshetra. With the diverse

ranges of heritage resources, it showcases significant sacred cultural landscape components which have

evolved with the support of available natural resource base and cultural trigger. It is in the eastern coastal

plains, along the axis of the Eastern Ghats mountains. The city has an average altitude of 45 m

(148 ft) above sea level. The city is bounded by the Daya River to the south and the Kuakhai River to

the east; the Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary and Nandankanan Zoo lie in the western and northern parts of

Bhubaneswar, respectively. Bhubaneswar is often referred to as a ‘Temple City of India’ and with Puri

and Konark, it forms a ‘Golden Triangle’, one of eastern India’s most visited destination. The city is

well connected to major parts of the country by air, rail and road. Winter season will be in force during

conference days and temperature will vary between 150C to 250C.

ABOUT INDIAN SOCIETY FOR PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS (ISPS)

Eminent scholars belonging to the disciplines of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences laid the foundation for the

origin of Indian Society for Theory of Probability and its Applications (ISTPA) when they met in Sri

Venkateshwara University in 1980. In the same year, the draft constitution of the Society was drawn up during the

deliberation of the Conference held at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. Later, in 1981, it was

registered in Bombay with its official address at the Department of Mathematics, IIT, Bombay. The Society was

renamed as Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS) in 1985. It has attracted many researchers and

scholars for enrolment as life members over the years and presently, the strength has crossed 1000. The society

takes every effort to enhance this number inviting young faculty, research scholars and students of Statistics across

the country. ISPS publishes the Journal and News Letter annually.

Annual Convention/Conference/Workshop/Symposium of ISPS is being organized every year in one of the

reputed national universities where the Department of Statistics exists. The events in every conference/convention

include memorial lectures, endowment lectures, invited talks, presentation of research papers for the award of

Young Statistician and presentation of contributory research papers. ISPS Life Time Achievement Award has been

instituted and is being presented to an eminent personality in recognition of his/her scholarly contributions to the

development of Statistics.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The organizers invite original and unpublished research papers from students/research scholars, academicians and

industry experts to present their work in the specialized areas of Statistics and Data science. The abstract of

contributed papers should be focused on the items such as objective of the study, methodology, research findings,

significance and scope of the study. There will be a review on the abstracts by experts and selection of the paper is

based on the recommendations of the experts committee. The interested delegates are requested to submit the soft

copy of abstract at iconrasdssd@gmail.com before the scheduled date in the following forms:

Text Format

Title

Abstract Format

Author(s)

Address

Keywords and Phrases

Body

Heading

Equipment Needs

Funding Agency, if any

: Microsoft Word format : Times New Roman

: Limited to 200 characters in length. Use initial caps in the title; do not use

all caps, 14 Pt Bold, Justified

: Limited to 200 words, 10 Pt Italic , Justified

: 12 Pt Bold, Centered

: 10Pt Bold, Centered

: 10 Pt Bold, Justified

: 12Pt, Justified

: 12 Pt, Justified Bold

: Indicate your audio–visual equipment needs at the end of the abstract

: Indicate the Details of Funds and Funding Agency

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Thrust areas of the conference include the following topics:

Actuarial Statistics

Agricultural Statistics

Artificial Intelligence

Bayesian Inference

Big Data Analytics

Bioinformatics

Biostatistics

Clinical Trials

Data Analytics

Data Mining

Data Science

Design of Experiments

Distribution Theory

Econometrics

Epidemiology

Expert Systems

Information Theory

Inventory Theory

Multivariate Analysis

Meta Analysis

Machine Learning

Operations Research

Probability Theory

Quality Control

Queuing Theory

Reliability Theory

Sampling Theory

Sequential Analysis

Statistical Inference

Statistical Quality Control

Statistical Genetics

Time Series Analysis

Demography

Soft Computing

Information Technology

Computational Finance

Cloud Computing

Managerial Statistics

Statistics in Service Sector

Statistics for Society

Stochastic Inference

Survival Analysis

Neural Networks

Official Statistics

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of abstracts : On or Before 23/10/2019

Acceptance communication of abstract : 13/11/2019

Payment Registration fees : 23/11/2019 (Without late fee)

: After 23/11/2019 (With late fee)

Submission of full length paper : 09/12/2019

Pre-Conference Workshop : 20th December, 2019

Date of conference : 21st- 23rd December, 2019

REGISTRATION

The selected participants are advised to get pre-registration to ensure their participation at the conference. They are

required to send Demand Draft / Cheque in favour of “CONVENER-ISPS CONFERENCE” payable at Syndicate

Bank, Utkal University Campus Branch, Bhubaneswar, Odisha and send the Draft to the address of the Convenor

specifies at the first page. For ONLINE transfer, one can use the Bank Details as follows and send the fee receipt to

the Convenor.

BANK DETAILS:

Name: CONVENER-ISPS CONFERENCE

Account Number: 80162250002419

Name of the Bank: Syndicate Bank

Branch Name: Utkal University Campus Branch, Bhubaneswar

IFSC Code: SYNB0008016 , MICR: 751025008

The registration fee includes the lunch (one day for Workshop Only, Three days for Conference Only and all four Days for

Both), conference banquet, coffee breaks and Conference / Workshop Kit.

Participants Registration Fee

On or Before 23/11/2019 After 23/11/2019 For Workshop

Faculty/ Scientists ₹ 3000 /- * ₹ 4000 /- * ₹ 1500

Research Scholars/Students ₹ 2000 /- * ₹ 2500 /- * ₹ 1500

Industry Personnel ₹ 6000 /- ₹ 7000 /- ₹ 1500

Accompanying Person ₹ 2000 /- ₹ 2500 /- ₹ 1500

Foreign delegates US$ 300 /- US$ 400 /- ₹ 1500

* Life members of ISPS will be given a discount of 20% in the registration fee.

CONFERENCE EVENTS

Keynote Address

Invited Lectures

Plenary Sessions

Contributory Sessions

Prof. P. V. Sukhatme Memorial Lecture

Prof. Y. C. Narasimhulu Endowment Lecture

Prof. A. M. Mathai Endowment Lecture

Prof. M.P. Shastri Endowment Lecture (Donated by Prof. P. Rajasekhar Reddy and Prof. K. Nageswara Rao)

Prof. David Hanagal Endowment Lecture

ISPS Young Statistician Award for Best Research Paper Presentation (Dr. J. Sethu Raman Gold Medal)

Prof. C. R. Rao Gold Medal for the Second Best Research Paper Presentation

Prof. A. M. Mathai Cash Prize for the Third Best Research Paper Presentation

Prof. M. N. Gopalan Cash Prize for the Fourth Best Research Paper Presentation

Prof. B. K. Kale Cash Prize for the Fifth Best Research Paper Presentation

Prof. A. R. Kamath Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis*

Competition for ISPS Young Statistician Award*

Competition for Best Student Project*

* Separate notification regarding the modalities of these awards will be issued by ISPS

ACCOMMODATION AND LOCAL TRANSPORT

Participants will have to make their own arrangements for accommodation and transportation. However, the

organizing committee will help them in identifying hotels located close to the conference venue. The list of hotels

will be made available in the conference website.

Limited accommodation on shared basis in the University Guest House and Hostels is available on request.

Accommodation charges are not included in the registration fees.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Prof. S. M. Patnaik, Vice Chancellor, Patron

Prof. K.B. Panda, Professor, Convener

Dr. P.R. Dash, Reader, Organizing Secretary

Dr. R. K. Sahoo, Assistant Prof. Treasurer

Dr. P.K. Swain, Assistant Prof., Co-Convener

Members

Dr. P. Sarangi, RU, Cuttack

Prof. R.N. Subudhi, KIIT, Bhubaneswar

Dr. N. Mishra, Bhubaneswar

Mr. K.P. Misra, NSSO, Bhubaneswar

Mrs. Gopa Chattopadhyay, Kolkata.

Dr. M. Patnaik , SU, Sambalpur

Dr. M. Panda , CUO, Koraput

Student Volunteers

Mr. Bhabani Sankar Mohanty

Mr. Manas Ranjan Tripathy

Mr. Manoranjan Sen

Miss. Sujata Shukla

Miss. Kalyani Sunani

Miss. Upasana

Miss. Subhadra Priyadarshini

ISPS EXECUTIVE MEMBERS

Prof. P. Rajasekhara Reddy, Hon.President

Prof. K. Srinivasa Rao, President

Prof. Debasis Kundu, Chief Editor, JISPS

Prof. K. Muralidharan, Vice President

Prof. Aquil Ahmed, Vice President

Prof. R. Ravanan, Secretary

Prof. P. Tirupathi Rao, Treasurer

Prof. C. Satheesh Kumar, EC Member

Prof. Paramewsar. V. Pandit, EC Member

Prof. S.C. Malik, EC Member

Prof. Sheela Mishra, EC Member

Prof. David Hanagal, EC Member

Dr. B.S. Biradar, EC Member

Dr. M. Venkateswaran, EC Member

Dr. P.K. Gupta, EC Member

NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Prof. J. Sarangi, Bhubaneswar

Prof. A.K.P.C. Swain, Bhubaneswar

Prof. G. Mishra, Bhubaneswar

Prof. L.N. Sahoo, Bhubaneswar

Prof. B.K. Pradhan, Bhubaneswar

Prof. P.K. Tripathy, Bhubaneswar

Dr. U.N. Rout, Cuttack

Dr. S.C. Senapati, Cuttack

Mr. Loknath Sarangi, Bhubaneswar

Prof. Debasis Sengupta, Kolkata

Prof. P.R. Vittal, Chennai

Prof. B.K. Gupt, NEHU

Prof. C.R. Mittal

Prof. K. Senthanarai Kannan, Tirunelveli

Prof. A. Loganathan, Tirunelveli

Prof. R. Kannan, Annamalai

Prof. S.S. Maity, Vishwa Vharati

Prof. M. Srinivasan, Chennai

Prof. Athar Ali Khan, AMU, Aligarh

Prof. N. Balakrishna, Coachin

Prof. Elonganvon, Annamalai

Prof. Gurprit Grover, Delhi

Prof. S. N. Dwivedi, New Delhi

Prof. S K Upadhyay, BHU, Varanasi

Prof. S K Sharma, PU, Chandigarh

Prof. Kalpana Mahajan,PU, Chandigarh

Prof. Rakesh Gupta, CCSU, Meerut

Prof. Vyas Dubey, Raipur

Prof. D Bhattacharya, Vishwa Vharati

Prof. Rajendra Prasad, New Delhi

Prof. C K Jaggi, DU

Prof. SK Singh, Raipur

Prof. A K Sihna, Patna

Prof. B. Re. Victor Babu, A.P.

Prof. Hukum Chandra, New Delhi

Prof. K.K. Suresh, Coimbatore

Prof. Rahul Gupta, Jammu

Prof. Ashok Shanubhogue, Anand, India

Prof. Sunil Kawale, Aurangabad

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Prof. C.R. Rao, USA

Prof. Jammalamadaka S Rao, USA

Prof. N. Balakrishnan, Canada

Prof. G.K. Subramani, USA

Prof. Bhudev Sharma, USA

Prof. S.R.S. Varadhan, USA

Prof. Hoang Pham, USA

Prof. M.B. Rao, USA

Prof. Barry D. Nussbaum, USA

Prof. YSS Yadavalli, South Africa

Prof. A.M. Mathai, Canada

Prof. Cem Kadilar, Turkey

Prof. Thesis Lange, Denmark

Prof. Jan Rychtar, USA

Prof. Chandra Gulati, Australia

Prof. Sat Gupta, USA

Prof. Bimal Sinha, USA

Prof. B.L.S. Prakasa Rao, ISI,Kolkata

Prof. S.P. Mukherjee, Kolkata

Prof. B.K. Sinha, ISI, Kolkata

Prof. P.K. Kapur, AU, Noida

Prof. Govindan Kannan, Denmark

Prof. Mohan Krishna Murty, Australia

Prof. Raj Srinivasan, Canada

Prof. H.N. Nagaraja, USA

Prof. Hiroshi Sakai, Japan

Prof. Satosi Hatori, Japan

Prof. Surendra Kumar, Japan

Prof. B.K. Dass, Delhi

Prof. Ramanathan, UK

Prof. Diago Galar, Sweeden

Prof. S.K. Varma, Norway

Prof. Ricardo Combani, Italy

Prof. Ashis Sengupta, India

Prof. Junzo Watada, Japan

Prof. Y. P. Chaubey, Canada

Dhauli Giri Hills

Khandagiri and Udayagiri

Puri Sea Beach

Puri Jagannath Temple

Nandankanan Zoological Park

Lingaraj Temple

Chilika Lake

Raja Rani Temple

International Conference on

RECENT ADVANCES IN STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

In conjunction with

XXXIX ANNUAL CONVENTION OF INDIAN SOCIETY FOR PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS (ISPS)

21 – 23rd

December 2019

&

National Workshop on

MODERN REGRESSION METHODS USING R

20th December, 2019

POST GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

UTKAL UNIVERSITY, VANI VIHAR, BHUBANESWAR – 751004, ODISHA, INDIA

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