HYDERABAD: Hyderabad is going to conduct the first ever Statistics Olympiad soon. After the first Statistics Olympiad at the national level was held in the city in January, the event, conducted by the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS) is going to expand to an international level.
With request from 15 countries to conduct the Statistics Olympiad, AIMSCS is looking to conduct the first ever international Statistics Olympiad next year. Students studying in class IX to XII are eligible to take the level one exam conducted separately for class IX and X(Stream- 1) and for class XI and XII (Stream- 2).
The national level Statistics Olympiad held in January got a great response whose results will be announced in June.
“This year we had 27,686 participants from across the country.
We have also received requests from several countries to hold an international level Olympiad. We are therefore, thinking of expanding the reach of the first ever national Statistics Olympiad to an international Olympiad next year. The Olympiad held on January 22 was the first of its kind in the country,” explained Prof SB Rao, director, AIMSCS.
“Although statistics is a young discipline, there is an immense demand for statisticians by governments, industry and academics throughout the world. Therefore, it is one of our aims to encourage talented young students to pursue careers in this field. To create awareness about the subject and encourage those with an aptitude for numerical reasoning, we constituted the Statistics Olympiad,” said Prof CR Rao, founder, AIMSCS.