Climate change and variability have been a source of contention and debate in many parts of the developing world for many years. Different people have different perspectives on climate change and variability. This study examines small-scale farmers' perceptions on climate change...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v17i330424
Generalized distributions have become increasingly popular in applications. They are highly flexible in data analysis, especially with skewed data, which are common in many applications. The Generalized Logistic Distribution (GLD) and its special cases have recently received a lo...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v17i330423
Combining China's development concepts of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, the paper constructs a high-quality development measurement system of Yangtze River Delta of China, which contains five dimensions: the optimization of economic structure, the efficie...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v17i330422
Mineral shortages can be avoided if the mineral industry accurately predicts mineral deposits, which is critical given the importance of minerals in Ghana's economy. The goal of this dissertation was to use the block maxima (BM) approach of Extreme Value Theory (EVT) to accuratel...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v17i230421
Researches on artificial neural network models have shown that the method used to initialize and estimate weights and bias always determines the rate at which the network will converge and how efficient the model will perform. Although there are several methods that can be used t...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v17i230420
The Nigerian disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programme known as the Amnesty Programme have become common practice in countries facing violent conflict. A time-series model for monthly crude oil production was developed to examine the effect of Government’s Amnesty P...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v17i230419
The power series generalised power Weibull class of distributions were developed in this study by compounding the power series family of distributions and the generalised power Weibull distribution. The statistical properties of this new class were derived. Maximum likelihood par...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v17i230417
The FBN bank is the oldest and largest of the twenty-four banks operating in the Nigerian economy. The objective of this study is to assess the impact of Operational Risk Management on FBN Banks. Past literatures were reviewed and theoretical frameworks such as the extreme-value...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v17i230416
This research work compared the Ordinary Least Squares Regression and Quantile Regression models, as well as the differences between them thereby examining the compared models in terms of goodness of fit statistic and also recommend a suitable fit model for the data collected. Th...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v17i130415
Logistic regression is a popular statistic modelling algorithm in predicting a binary outcome. Although logistic regression almost always has an intercept, logistic regression without intercept is sometimes appropriate or even necessary. However, logistic regression without inter...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v17i130414