This present study has discussed the levels and trends of under-five mortality in sub-Sahara Africa. This study aims to estimate under-five mortality using Summary of Birth Histories (SBH) of currently married women which may provide valuable information for assessing the interve...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2020/v7i230176
This paper studies the optimal investment plan for a pension scheme with refund of contributions, stochastic salary and affine interest rate model. A modified model which allows for refund of contributions to death members’ families is considered. In this model, the fund managers...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2020/v7i230175
Objectives: The study aims to develop a Bayesian multiple regression model with informative inverse gamma prior and t the model to malaria symptom dataset. Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out in Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST). The s...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2020/v7i130174
Several multivariate statistical methods are used in population genetics but there are very few studies that have revealed the strengths and weaknesses of different methods. Thus, this study aims to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the different multivariate statistical met...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2020/v7i130173
This article introduces and studies a new probability distribution called “Transmuted Power Gompertz distribution”. It looks at the properties of the transmuted power Gompertz distribution. The article also estimates the four parameters of the new model using the method of maximu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2020/v7i130172
We proposed a new family of distributions called the Topp Leone exponentiated-G family of distributions with two extra positive shape parameters, which generalizes and also extends the Topp Leone-G family of distributions. We derived some mathematical properties of the proposed f...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2020/v7i130170
As a mono-product economy, where the main export commodity is crude oil, volatility in oil prices has implications for the Nigerian economy and, in particular, exchange rate movements. The latter is particularly important due to the twin dilemma of being an oil exporting and oil-...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2020/v7i130171
The purpose of this paper is to find out the operating characteristics of the ATM service point of the Fidelity bank Plc, plateau state. Specifically, a computer package (MS60) was used for analyzing the data. Results obtained from the analysis showed the traffic intensity (ρ) to...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2020/v6i430168
Aim: We evaluate the performance of parametric models, mixture of generalized gamma frailty model with Gompertz distribution and compare it with Cox proportional hazard model that is commonly used in the analysis of TB patients and also by [1]. Place and the Duration of the Study...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2020/v6i430169
In this paper, we review some estimators of count regression (Poisson and negative binomial) models in panel data modeling. These estimators based on the type of the panel data model (the model with fixed or random effects). Moreover, we study and compare the performance of thes...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2020/v6i430167