AGU researchers win GCC statistical award

Doha, Mar. 22 (BNA): The Arabian Gulf University (AGU) has won the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Statistical Research Awards during its participation in the Statistical Research for Youth Competition held by the Statistical Centre of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries during the first Gulf Statistics Forum. The competition was held recently in Riyadh under the slogan, "Enhancing Statistical Partnerships in Support of Economic Policies and Sustainable Development in the GCC countries." The event was organised by the General Organisation for Statistics in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Statistical Center of the Gulf Cooperation Council under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Researchers Khalid Al-Rabie and Latifa Al-Fadaghi, of the Technical Management Programme at the Department of Technology and Innovation at AGU’s College of Graduate Studies, won the first and second prizes in the forum, organised to support development in all its economic, social and environmental dimensions at the national and regional levels, including the support of new economic GCC policies and the agenda of sustainable development 2030. On the occasion, a committee member of the College of Graduate Studies at AGU, Dr. Yas Al-Sultani, supervisor of the papers submitted by the Technology Management Program in the Department of Technology and Innovation, said that the first place winner’s research was entitled ‘Using statistical data for exploration and prediction of air quality’. AGU graduate student, Khalid Al-Rabie, researched methods of processing large amounts of data by using data mining methods, given that data collected from monitoring stations for air pollutants and air stations are of great sizes and require modern techniques to be processed and analysed. The second prize winning research was entitled, ‘Statistics, Processing, Modelling and Analysis of Educational Data for the State of Kuwait’. The researcher, Latifah Al-Fadaghi, used modelling and simulation to predict the future needs of the administration teaching process for the next twenty years by estimating the numbers of students, schools, classes, expected cost and other educational indicators. This technique proved the accuracy of its results compared to other statistical and quantitative methods. Dr. Al-Sultani explained that these researches were carried out by the College of Graduate Studies at AGU using the latest technologies, to develop solutions to the problems faced by the GCC countries. The Graduate School strives to produce applied scientific research of high quality that keeps up with current scientific studies at local and global levels. I