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Welcome to the new semester/EP509

Welcome to EP509.

In this course, we shall study the nature of production conditions in contemporary Indian agriculture and the process of their evolution in the post-independence period.

As you can see, reading lists for each topic are substantial. You will be required to read at least about 200 pages every week.

I expect students to attend classes regularly.

All [...]

Interesting document

Making Data Meaningful: A guide to writing stories about numbers

The blurb: The guide is intended as a practical tool to help managers,
statisticians and media relations officers use text, tables, graphics
and other information to bring statistics to life.

Get the pdf version directly [...]

How to write the end-semester termpaper

Read the note here.

I suggest that the term paper be about 2500 word long. It should include a clear statement of objective, description of data, description of the econometric method used, analysis and interpretation of results, and a concluding section. Each student MUST write independently. Plagiarism will be heavily penalised.

Just staple your term paper on the [...]

Last date for end-semester term papers

The end semester term papers must be submitted by 30th 1 pm. This is an absolute deadline. I will leave Delhi after that and will not be able to take the term papers. There will be no late submissions after [...]

Extra classes on 16, 17 and 18

I would like to take extra classes on April 16 (afternoon), 17 (morning) and 18 (morning). Can you  consult  amongst yourselves and decide the [...]

Subset schdata to primary schools

Variable SCHCAT takes value “1″ for primary schools. Use that to get a subset of only primary schools. Merge that list with the relevant variables from village directories.

I will discuss problems related to the assignment only until the 17th. After that, we get back to the class-room. Please make sure that you have at least first [...]

Installed catdoc on cespserv

catdoc is installed on the cespserv. You can use xls2csv on cespserv to convert excel files [...]

Reading large tables into R

Here are some useful tips on [...]

Reading large datasets in R

Farnsworth has discussed with an example a faster way of reading large files. It would be nice if some of you tried to implement it to read schdata.txt

Also, let us collectively mine the documentation/r-help for more resources [...]

End-semester term papers

Until now, following people have registered their end-semester term paper topics.

Name
State

Md. Suher Khan
Uttar Pradesh

Rohin Anhal
Karnataka

Silpa
Nagaland

Bijoyata Yonzon
Assam

Akhil
Chhattisgarh

Sudeep
Manipur

Motiniva
Orissa

Vishal
Tripura

Shinjou Kim
Mizoram

Amarjyoti
Himachal Pradesh

Sheetal
Sikkim

Ganita Bhupal
Rajasthan

Aparajay
Bihar

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