Browsing Masters Degrees (Statistics) by Type "Thesis"
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Age, period and cohort analysis of young adult mortality due to HIV and TB in South Africa: 1997-2015.
(2019)Young adult mortality is very important in South Africa with the impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus /Acquired Immune deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), Tuberculosis (TB), injuries and emerging non-communicable diseases ... -
Analysis of a binary response : an application to entrepreneurship success in South Sudan.
(2012)Just over half (50:6%) of the population of South Sudan lives on less than one US Dollar a day. Three quarters of the population live below the poverty line (NBS, Poverty Report, 2010). Generally, effective government ... -
Analysis of time-to-event data including frailty modeling.
(2006)There are several methods of analysing time-to-event data. These include nonparametric approaches such as Kaplan-Meier estimation and parametric approaches such as regression modeling. Parametric regression modeling ... -
The application of classification techniques in modelling credit risk.
(2014)The aim of this dissertation is to examine the use of classification techniques to model credit risk through a practice known as credit scoring. In particular, the focus is on one parametric class of classification techniques ... -
The application of multistate Markov models to HIV disease progression.
(2011)Survival analysis is a well developed area which explores time to single event analysis. In some cases, however, such methods may not adequately capture the disease process as the disease progression may involve ... -
Application of statistical multivariate techniques to wood quality data.
(2010)Sappi is one of the leading producer and supplier of Eucalyptus pulp to the world market. It is also a great contributor to South Africa economy in terms of employment opportunity to the rural people through its large ... -
Application of survival analysis methods to study under-five child mortality in Uganda.
(2013)Infant and child mortality rates are one of the health indicators in a given community or country. It is the fourth millennium development goal that by 2015, all the united nations member countries are expected to have ... -
Applications of Levy processes in finance.
(2009)The option pricing theory set forth by Black and Scholes assumes that the underlying asset can be modeled by Geometric Brownian motion, with the Brownian motion being the driving force of uncertainty. Recent empirical studies, ... -
Aspects of categorical data analysis.
(1998)The purpose of this study is to investigate and understand data which are grouped into categories. At the onset, the study presents a review of early research contributions and controversies surrounding categorical data ... -
Bayesian data augmentation using MCMC: application to missing values imputation on cancer medication data.
(2017)Missing data is a very serious issue that negatively affect inferences and findings of researchers in data science and statistics. The ignorance of missing data or deletion of cases that contain missing observations may ... -
Bayesian hierarchical spatial and spatio-temporal modeling and mapping of tuberculosis in Kenya.
(2013)Global spread of infectious disease threatens the well-being of human, domestic, and wildlife health. A proper understanding of global distribution of these diseases is an important part of disease management and policy ... -
A comparison of cancer classification methods based on microarray data.
(2018)Cancer is among the leading causes of death in both developed and developing countries. Through gene expression profiling of tumors, the accuracy of cancer classification has been enhanced, leading to correct diagnoses ... -
Completion of an incomplete market by quadratic variation assets.
(2011)It is well known that the general geometric L´evy market models are incomplete, except for the geometric Brownian and the geometric Poissonian, but such a market can be completed by enlarging it with power-jump assets ... -
A complex survey data analysis of TB and HIV mortality in South Africa.
(2012)Many countries in the world record annual summary statistics such as economic indicators like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and vital statistics for example the number of births and deaths. In this thesis we focus on mortality ... -
Count data modelling application.
(2019)The rapid increase of total children ever born without a proportionate growth in the Nigerian economy has been a concern and making prediction with count data requires applying appropriate regression model.. As count data ... -
Estimating risk determinants of HIV and TB in South Africa.
(2009)Where HIV/AIDS has had its greatest adverse impact is on TB. People with TB that are infected with HIV are at increased risk of dying from TB than HIV. TB is the leading cause of death in HIV individuals in South Africa. ... -
Estimating the force of infection from prevalence data : infectious disease modelling.
(2013)By knowing the incidence of an infectious disease, we can ascertain the high risk factors of the disease as well as the e ectiveness of awareness programmes and treatment strategies. Since the work of Hugo Muench in 1934, ... -
Estimation and analysis of measures of disease for HIV infection in childbearing women using serial seroprevalence data.
(2011)The prevalence and the incidence are two primary epidemiological parameters in infectious disease modelling. The incidence is also closely related to the force of infection or the hazard of infection in survival ... -
Evaluation of strategies to combine multiple biomarkers in diagnostic testing.
(2012)A challenge in clinical medicine is that of correct diagnosis of disease. Medical researchers invest considerable time and effort to enhance accurate disease diagnosis. Diagnostic tests are important components in modern ...