Agricultural Statisticians Network

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Agricultural Statisticians Network
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Introduction
The agricultural statisticians working in the
National Agricultural Research System (NARS) are
playing important role in agricultural research
programmes. They play leading role in the
analysis, interpretation and presentation of
research data. These statisticians are spread
over the length and breadth of the country.
Consequently, there is a need for close
collaboration and cooperation among the
agricultural statisticians.
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Agricultural Statistician Network (ASN)
Indian Agricultural Statistics Research
Institute, New Delhi, has taken lead in
developing a website for the network of
agricultural statisticians under NATP project
"Institutionalization of Research Priority
Setting, Monitoring Evaluation and Networking
of Social Scientists".
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Objectives

• Global coverage
• Resource Sharing
• Rapid Information Exchange
• To provide comprehensive view of research
  information in statistics
• To optimize response time in addressing
  methodology related problem

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Structure of ASN

• The information base has been categorized
  discipline wise to provide the comprehensive
  knowledge about a particular discipline. The
  website has been structured to provide
  information categorically for the following
  disciplines
• Agriculture Statistics
•    Mathematical Statistics
•    Biometrics
•    Statistics
•    Bio-Statistics
•    Computer Application

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Features of ASN
Institute/ Department This link provide general
information about the institutions like their
correspondence address, phone, fax, email and
other information like mandate of the institute,
head of the institute etc Courses Information
about the course offered by different
institutions for Ph.D., M.Sc. and other
certificate courses under different disciplines
of statistics along with their syllabus and
duration. Expert information Includes general
information like address, area of
specialization, qualifications, research,
technology developed, training, awards, society
membership and information about foreign visits.
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Interactive Features of ASN
Discussion Group It is a powerful utility for
the users and expert groups to share their views
for discipline related problems solving and
clarifications. Chat All the registered users of
the site can go for online interaction for
sharing of their ideas and solving their problems
with the experts. Search Unique feature of the
search facility is that it provides database
search and allows multiple search about experts,
institutions, courses, books etc.  Notice Board
Website contain tool for creating awareness among
all the registered members and provide facility
to create notices.
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Features of ASN
Books Information about books under different
disciplines are available in standard reference
method. Information on Statistical Journals
Provide information on Statistical Journals
covering name of the journal, type
(national/international), periodicity, editor,
place of publication. Dictionary of statistical
terms For Dictionary of statistical terms a link
to another site on the Internet is provided. In
second phase of the site we may go for creating
our own directory of statistical terms.
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Features of ASN
Statistical Packages It covers utility on the
statistical packages with brief descriptions with
its cost and availability. Statistical Databases
Includes the name of databases, their utility and
availability. Also provide links to other sites
containing statistical databases. Other
Institutes Link to other statistical institutes
around the world.
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Address of ASN The site is available at the
address http//iasri.res.in/ASN/
Membership to the website Facility for online
registration is provided on the site. After
filling the online registration form one can
become the member of this site.