Office of Research, Innovation & Commercialization (ORIC) organized hands-on training workshop on “R-Language” and “Advanced SPSS” on April 26 and April 29, 2019, respectively at Lawrence Road Office, Virtual University of Pakistan.

Ms. Anam Zakir (Instructor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Virtual University of Paksitan) delivered the training workshop on “Advanced SPSS”. In her three-hour session, she covered the topics including One Way and Two-Way ANOVA, Exploring Relationships between Variables, Correlation Testing and Factor Analysis along with the hands-on practice.

Dr. Amber Asghar (Lecturer, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Virtual University of Pakistan) delivered training workshop on “R-Language”. She introduced the basics of “R” software to all participants. In the three hours session, she covered all the essentials of the software, including different functions and codes for data analysis.

Dr. Syed Salman Hassan, Deputy Director ORIC described the overall activities of ORIC to the Rector, Virtual University of Pakistan and participants.

 Prof. Dr. Arif Rafiq, Director ORIC advised the participants to participate in research related activities. In closing remarks Mr. Naeem Tariq, Rector Virtual University of Pakistan highlighted the role of research in creating and spreading knowledge. He acknowledged the efforts of ORIC and said that such activities are highly useful and should be conducted more often for knowledge enhancement.

Mr. Naeem Tariq, Rector, Virtual University of Pakistan along with Prof. Dr. Abdul Majid, Registrar, Virtual University awarded the certificate of recognition and souvenir to resource persons and certificate of participation to the participants.