This article introduces a new distribution called the Lomax-Gompertz distribution developed through a Lomax Generator proposed in an earlier study. Some statistical properties of the proposed distribution comprising moments, moment generating function, characteristics function, q...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2019/v3i230092
This study investigated the impact of volatility shock persistence on the conditional variance in the Nigerian stock returns using symmetric and asymmetric higher order GARCH family models in the presence of random level shifts and non-Gaussian errors. The study utilised Bai and...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2019/v3i230091
The analysis of climate change, climate variability and their extremes has become more important as they clearly affect the human society and ecology. The impact of climate change is reflected by the change of frequency, duration and intensity of climate extreme events in the env...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2019/v3i230086
Abstract: Malaria remains a major infectious disease that affects millions of people. Once infected with Plasmodium parasites, a host can develop a broad range of clinical presentations, which result from complex interactions between factors derived from the host, the parasite an...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2019/v3i230087
In regression analysis, it is relatively necessary to have a correlation between the response and explanatory variables, but having correlations amongst explanatory variables is something undesired. This paper focuses on five methodologies for handling critical multicollinearity,...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2019/v3i230085
In this article, the Quadratic rank transmutation map proposed and studied by Shaw and Buckley [1] is used to construct and study a new distribution called the transmuted Lomax-Exponential distribution (TLED) as an extension of the Lomax-Exponential distribution recently proposed...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2019/v3i130084
The study applied Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Intervention in modelling crude oil prices in Nigeria spanning the period from January 1986 to June 2017. The time plot of the series showed an abrupt increase in the series and this called for intervention modelling. The...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2019/v3i130083
The Central limit theorem is a very powerful tool in statistical inference and Mathematics in general, since it has numerous applications such as in topology and many other areas. For the case of probability theory, it states that, “given certain conditions, the sample mean of a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2019/v3i130082
The Radon transform maps a function on n-dimensional Euclidean space onto its integral over a hyperplane. The fields of modern computerized tomography and medical imaging are fundamentally based on the Radon transform and the computer implementation of the inversion, or reconstru...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2019/v3i130081
This paper is to estimate the survey for 98000 addresses from 1999-2017 in United States bureau of Census by using cluster analysis. The analysis is mainly applied by Approximate Covariance Estimation for CLUSTING (ACECLUS), and procedure variables for CLUSTING (VARCLUS) to test...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2019/v3i130080