Christogonus Ifeanyichukwu Ugoh, Osuji George Amaeze, Nwankwo Chike Henry, Nneka Chidinma Nwabueze, Anabike Charles Ifeanyi & Muoneke Izuchukwu Godson·Asian Journal of Probability and Statistics·2022
The aim of this paper is to obtain the best model that will be used to predict Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) between Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model and Weighted Markov Chains (WMC). The annual dataset of U5MR in Nigeria for the period 1980-2019 is obtai...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v16i130393
Christogonus Ifeanyichukwu Ugoh, Nneka Chidinma Nwabueze, Nwabueze Achunam Simeon, Eze Theophine Chinaza & Okafor Chinasa Ogedi·Asian Journal of Probability and Statistics·2022
Paper proposes an appropriate time series model that is used to forecast the NMR in Nigeria. The data used for the study is sourced from the World Bank for a period of 1980-2019. The ARIMA model and Exponential Smoothing are fitted on the raw data. The Bayesian Information Criter...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v16i130391
This study examined the lead-lag relationship between between Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) and Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus (DPT) vaccinations in Anambra State using cross spectrum analysis with BCG as the input series. The monthly data on the number of vaccinations for BCG...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v16i130392
Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women, affecting 34 women per every 100,000. This has led to high number of fatalities annually, which need to be mitigated. Establishing alternative conventional therapies such as working on mindfulness-based stress...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2022/v16i130390
Scopes and Objectives: We analyzed some aspects of the first historical outbreak of Zika that occurred in Salta, Argentina, in the year 2017. We obtained elementary estimates, such as the prevalence ratio and describe the probabilistic behavior of the outbreak by simulation of ty...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2021/v15i430386
In this paper we have introduced semicopula function by using Rüschendorf method, semicopula which is related to correlation between one or more random variables and this way is more flexible than traditional correlation approaches and dependency among variables. Every semicopul...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2021/v15i430388
Some remarks and corrections of some properties the new distribution, quasi Lindley, of which the Lindley distribution is a special case, are given concerning its parameter space. In addition, a comparison study between the new two-parameter distributions (pseudo Lindley, gamma L...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2021/v15i430383
The aim of this paper is introduced a new distribution with one parameter called unit Monsef distribution (UMD) with it is regression model since it is more fitting than well-known distributions in educational attainment data , derived from a transformation on Monsef distribution...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2021/v15i430384
In this paper, we have proposed a new version of three parameters log-Pearson type III distribution known as weighted Log-Pearson type III distribution. The different structural properties of the newly model have been studied. The maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2021/v15i430385
There are various environmental factors that need to be considered when assessing the suitability of site for oil palm cultivation some of which are; climate, vegetation, and the soils. Using soil morphology and degree of profile development or the nature of the parent bedrock an...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2021/v15i430382