Aims: Linking social needs to social classes using different criteria may lead to social services misuse. The paper discusses using ML and Neural Nentwoks (NNs) in linking public services in Scotland in the long term and advocates this can result in a reduction of the services co...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v19i130460
This paper presents a revised Fixed-base model (RFBM) for the estimation of adult mortality in developing countries. The RFBM also derives estimates of adult mortality from the age distributions of two censuses by 5-year age-groups. Unlike the original version, RFBM does not depe...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v19i130459
Probability Theory is a more of a game of chance. It has the condition of likely and unlikely certainties. This theory plays much in human life, in financial institutions, banking, education, governance, insurance, etc. Governments apply probabilistic methods in environmental reg...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v19i130458
Methods for estimating regression models to data in the areas showing varying variances is considered. The centre of attention is on diverse methods of evaluating varying variances. The nonparametric approach which incorporates the smoothing methods and the choice of the ideal ba...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v18i430455
Due to variations in life occurrences, descriptions or interpretations and predictions with some level of accuracy has become challenging. In order to use models to solve these problems, statisticians have provided numerous number of probability distributions which can be used to...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v18i430456
In this study, we modeled the dependence structure between inflation and exchange rate using the copula approach. To formulate a bivariate copula, we used ARMA+GARCH to model serial dependence for each univariate series of returns. Both for in ation and exchange rate, it was foun...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v18i430457
This study illustrates some practical steps lecturers could use to enable students to apply the chi-square concept. The study relied on a definition and theorem based on the chi-square theoretical model. The participants consisted of seventy (70) (fifty-five (55) males and fiftee...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v18i430454
In this study, a new generalization of the normal distribution called the unit half logistic normal (UHLN) distribution has been proposed by introducing a shape parameter into the normal distribution to make it more flexible. Several statistical properties of the new distribution...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v18i430452
In hypothesis testing, the purpose of two-sample problem is to determine the statistical significance of the difference between two independent populations. This paper proposes a nonparametric test statistic based on U -statistic, useful for two-sample scale problem when dealing...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v18i330451
In this study, we sought to model the time to the first birth interval from marriage for women in Nigeria, and identify the various factors affecting this timing. The study was also set to determine the average/median survival time for marriage to first birth interval among Niger...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v18i330450