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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 ...
Modelling longitudinal binary disease outcome data including the effect of covariates and extra variability.
(2011)
The current work deals with modelling longitudinal or repeated non-Gaussian measurements for
a respiratory disease. The analysis of longitudinal data for non-Gaussian binary disease outcome
data can broadly be modeled ...
The role of immune-genetic factors in modelling longitudinally measured HIV bio-markers including the handling of missing data.
(2013)
Since the discovery of AIDS among the gay men in 1981 in the United States of America,
it has become a major world pandemic with over 40 million individuals infected world
wide. According to the Joint United Nations ...
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 ...
Multivariate time series modelling.
(2012)
This research is based on a detailed description of model building for multivariate time series
models. Under the assumption of stationarity, identification, estimation of the parameters and
diagnostic checking for the ...
Statistical and mathematical modelling of HIV and AIDS, effect of reverse transcriptase inhibitors and causal inference for HIV mortality.
(2010)
The HIV and AIDS epidemic has remained one of the leading causes of death in the world and
has been destructive in Africa with Sub-Saharan Africa remaining the epidemiological locus of
the epidemic. HIV and AIDS ...
Modelling longitudinally measured outcome HIV biomarkers with immuno genetic parameters.
(2011)
According to the Joint United Nations Programme against HIV/AIDS 2009 AIDS epidemic update, there were a total of 33.3 million (31.4 million–35.3 million) people living with HIV worldwide in 2009. The majority of the ...
Modelling a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a cash incentivised prevention intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy among high school learners in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2013)
A third of adolescent girls fall pregnant before the age of 20 in South Africa, and
this happens despite contraceptives and condoms being free and mostly accessi-
ble.
This thesis aims to evaluate the impact of a cash ...
Modeling the smoking status of Kenya's males in the presence of missing data.
(2014)
The current research, modeling smoking status in Kenya's males in the presence of missing data has three objectives: The first objective of this study is to identify factors, associated with smoking which will lead to ...
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 ...