In this study, we proposed a generalization of the Pranav distribution by Shukla (2018). This new distribution called an extended Pranav distribution is obtained using the exponentiation method. The statistical characteristics of this new distribution such as the moments, moment...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i430078
This article aims at estimating the scale parameter of the Weimal distribution using Bayesian method and comparing the estimators obtained to the estimator of the scale parameter obtained from the method of maximum likelihood. Under Bayesian approach, the estimators are obtained...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i429944
The interdependence among oil prices, exchange rates and inflation rates, and their response to shocks, was a cause of concern. Unrestricted Vector Autoregression (UVAR) was employed to analyse this interactions as well as to investigate the pattern of causality among the study v...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i429946
LASSO method is one of the most popular and more extensive regressions. It has been applied to many fields. However, it is rare seen to research with complicated big data in biology. This paper is to apply LASSO method to Lake Michigan Fish acoustic data. The main techniques incl...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i429875
In real work, we often confront complete linear and nonlinear time series data. But some time series are not pure linear and nonlinear, or complicated one, we need apply two or more models to analyze and predict them. It is necessary to explore and find some novel time series hyb...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i328793
The purpose of this paper is to determine the time that a patient can spend waiting for service in Kibabii University Healthcare Clinic in Bungoma County (Kenya). The main objective was to provide necessary information to service facility managers, stakeholders, hospital staffs a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i428794
This paper is based on electricity consumption pattern in rental houses around Kibabii University (KU) situated in Western region of Kenya. Because of unexpected blackout faced by nonresident students at the time they need electricity most for their studies, this work intends to...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i328789
Aims: Identifying factors related to suicide and the prediction of future suicides are very important because suicide becomes a significant factor that engaged with education, social status, age, gender and many other factors. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to fin...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i328785
Deaths of children younger than 5 years has been a global problem for long time. This study is focused on evaluating diseases that caused under five child mortality in Tanzania in 2013. Diseases that causes child mortality were collected from 25 regions and analysed for 42 diseas...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i328788
Probability distributions and their generalisations have contributed greatly in the modeling and analysis of random variables. However, due to the increased introduction of new distributions there has been a major problem with choosing and applying the right distribution for a gi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i228780