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IIM Visakhapatnam concluded the 5-day online Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Handling Partial Least Squares - Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) on 1 July 2022.   

Dr Amit Shankar, Program Director and Faculty, IIM Visakhapatnam, welcomed the dignitaries and gave an overview of the program. He spoke about the relevance of the program and highlighted how the FDP helped the participants to get hands-on training in using the most popular software packages, such as Smart PLS, & R. At the end of the program participants gained an insight into using the data analyses tools and interpreting and reporting their results from both thesis as well as from publication point of view. The certificate program, held from 27 June to 1 July was attended by students, research scholars, and faculty members in management and allied areas. Sixty-three applications were received which included students, research scholars, and faculty members in management and allied areas. The participants were from IIM Bangalore, IIM Ranchi, IIM Shillong, IIM Jammu, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, IIT Roorkee, IIIT Allahabad, DTU, O P Jindal, Punjab University etc.