With great pleasure, we inform that the Eighth International Webinar on “Recent Trends in Statistical Theory and Applications-2023 (WSTA-2023)” in conjunction with Seventh Annual Convention of “Statistics Fraternity Kerala (SFK)” and National Statistics Day Celebrations-2023 is proposed to be held as Webinar during 29 June 2023 to 02 July 2023. The event is organized by the Department of Statistics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Kerala, Trivandrum in association with Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS) and Kerala Statistical Association (KSA). Eminent Statisticians working in the prime areas of Statistics from various parts of the country as well as from abroad have agreed to deliver talks in the webinar. The webinar topic covers almost all areas of Statistics even though the focus of the Conference will be on the following areas: 

Clinical Trials & Biostatistics, Distribution Theory, Exploratory Data Analysis, Industrial Statistics, Order Statistics, Official Statistics, Reliability Theory, Sampling Theory, Statistical Inference, Stochastic Process Modelling and Time Series. 

About the Webinar: The webinar aims to bring forth recent developments in the field of Statistics and related areas, with an objective of formulating statistical strategies to solve the newly emerging problems in key areas of the subject. The event also aims to commemorate the contributions of Great Indian Statisticians like Professor P. C. Mahalanobis, Professor C.R. Rao, Professor S.N. Roy, Professor D. Basu, Professor U.S. Nair, Professor K.C.S. Pillai, Professor K.R. Nair, Professor A.M. Mathai, Professor J.K. Ghosh etc., by organizing National Statistics Day Celebrations-2022 and a national level online quiz programme: “Professor P.C. Mahalanobis Memorial Quiz Competition 2023 for graduate students who are studying Statistics and Mathematics at least at complementary level.