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
The tetrachoric correlation coefficient (rt) is a special case of the statistical covariation between two variables measured on a dichotomous scale, but assuming an underlying bivariate normal distribution. Our goal was to provide an analysis of seven different methods used to ca...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i328782
In this paper, the estimators of variance components are derived of two-way nested random model when the problem of missing information exists using combination between Modified Minimum Variance Quadratic Unbiased Estimation (MMIVQUE) and Modified Minimum Variance Quadratic Unbia...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i228777
Linear regression is the measure of relationship between two or more variables known as dependent and independent variables. Classical least squares method for estimating regression models consist of minimising the sum of the squared residuals. Among the assumptions of Ordinary l...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i228773
Generally in our day to day life we come across the real life situations when right decision making becomes difficult. In different fields like economics, social science, medical science, environment, where such complicacy arises and involves uncertainties. The conventional mathe...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i228772
High quality solar radiation data is required for the appropriate monitoring and analysis of the Earth’s climate system as well as efficient planning and operation of solar energy systems. However, well maintained radiation measurements are rare in many regions of the world. Ther...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i228768
In this study, we proposed a new generalised transmuted inverse exponential distribution with three parameters and have transmuted inverse exponential and inverse exponential distributions as sub models. The hazard function of the distribution is nonmonotonic, unimodal and invert...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i124568
The agriculture sector is the mainstay of the Kenyan economy. Thus, the sector has a significant role and contribution to GDP. In this study, Box-Jenkins seasonal ARIMA time series modeling approach is used to develop a model that best describes the quarterly agricultural gross d...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i124563
The University of Embu is one of the fast developing and recently chartered University in Kenya. It is located in Nthambo sub-location, which is an agricultural potential area. Universities establishment have considerable influence on the activities of community that stays around...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i124565
In this paper, we estimate a shape parameter of the Weibull-Frechet distribution by considering the Bayesian approach under two non-informative priors using three different loss functions. We derive the corresponding posterior distributions for the shape parameter of the Weibull-...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i124562
This study examined the probability distribution that best described the quarterly economic growth rate of Nigeria between 1960- 2015. The study collected secondary data from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Statistical Bulletin 2015 on Gross Domestic Product to compute the economic...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpas/2018/v2i124559