Business owners play a vital role in the social and economic development of
South Africa by providing employment and services to the country’s citizens.
South African infrastructure and community services are maintained ...
If study subjects are tracked long enough, it is a typical assumption in survival analysis that they will eventually experience the event of interest. However, that is not always the case. In reality, it is not uncommon ...
Business owners play a vital role in the social and economic development of
South Africa by providing employment and services to the country’s citizens.
South African infrastructure and community services are maintained ...
The financial sector is vital to the economy as it encourages economic growth.
Therefore, modelling the extremes and risk management of financial stock returns
and losses is vital to economic survival. However, with ...
Eucalyptus is the most frequently planted genus tree in the world which is grown in more than 100 different countries. It is a subfamily of the Myrtaceae family with approximately 800 species of flowering evergreen trees ...
Injury is a truly global health issue with massive societal and economic consequences.
In this study, Negative-Binomial integer-valued generalised autoregressive
conditional heteroscedasticity (NB-INGARCH) and autoregressive ...
The multinomial model was fitted to the stated preference data of the transportation
problem by commuters in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria. The data analyzed in the study was
collected in 2001 among 151 less literate (highest ...
This thesis is based on application of frailty and copula models to under five
child mortality data set in South Africa. The main purpose of the study was to
apply sample splitting techniques in a survival analysis setting ...
Using the ARFIMA (autoregressive and fractionally integrated moving aver age) model extended with sGARCH (standard generalised autoregressive con ditional heteroscedasticity) and ’gjrGARCH (Glosten-Jagannathan-Runkle gen ...
Under-Five Mortality (U5M) remains a major health challenge in most sub Saharan African countries including SouthAfrica,despite the significant progress made in child survival and the government’s efforts and commitment to ...
Water is a precious natural resource and one of the most vital substance
for sustainability of life . The increase in water evaporation is a major prob lem where factors such as high temperature and minimum rainfall are ...
In spatial statistics, several methods have been developed to measure the extent
of local and global spatial dependence (clustering) in measured data across
areas in a region of research interest. These methods are now ...
The ever increasing number of students who drop out of university remains a challenge
for Higher Education administrators. In response to this, different studies have been
conducted globally in order to identify student ...
Background: Death and economic losses due to road traffic accidents (RTA) are huge global public health and developmental problems and need urgent attention. Each year nearly 1.24 million people die and millions suffer ...
Temperature extremes have a crucial impact on agricultural, economic, health
and energy sectors due to the occurrence of climate extreme events such as
heat waves and cold waves. Limpopo province is among the hottest ...
Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) is a process of replacing kidney function which cleans
waste from the blood and remove extra fluid from the body. In most cases, the
process of PD is slowed down by a peritoneal membrane infection ...
The main purpose of modelling rare events such as heavy rainfall, heat waves,
wind speed, interest rate and many other rare events is to try and mitigate
the risk that might arise from these events. Heavy rainfall and ...
Malaria is a mosquito borne disease, a major cause of human morbidity and
mortality in most of the developing countries in Africa. South Africa is one of
the countries with high risk of malaria transmission, with many ...
Recurrent peritonitis is a major problem of peritoneal dialysis (PD) due to its association with technique failure in the dialysis process. The literature on peritonitis focused only on investigating major risk factors ...