Browsing Research articles (Dept of Statistics) by Issue Date
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Opinion polls in Botswana
(Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, 2000)Opinion polls are a relatively new phenomenon in Botswana but nonetheless a welcome development as they inform both the candidates and the campaigners on pertinent issues facing the electorate. Opinion polls becomes more ... -
Ehrenberg law-like relationship and anthropometry
(Wiley-Blackwell, www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell, 2002)Summary. Ehrenberg presented the simple law-like relationship log(w) = 0.8h + 0.4 ? 0.04 between the weight and height of children aged 5-13 years. Several researchers have confirmed that this relationship holds, irrespective ... -
Bayesian computation for logistic regression
(Elsevier, http://www.elsevier.com, 2005)A method for the simulation of samples from the exact posterior distributions of the parameters in logistic regression is proposed. It is based on the principle of data augmentation and a latent variable is introduced, ... -
On almost sure behavior of stable subordinators over rapidly increasing sequences
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, http://epubs.siam.org, 2006)Let (X(t), t ≥ (0) with X(0) = 0 be a stable subordinator with index 0 < α < 1 and let (tk) be an increasing sequence such that tk+1/tk → ∞ as k → ∞. Let (at) be a positive nondecreasing function of t such that a(t)/t ... -
Determinants of effective productivity among service workers: the case of nurses in Botswana
(Academic Journals, http://www.academicjournals.org, 2007)The study proposes a measure of effective productivity among service workers and seeks a parsimonious predictive model of “effective productivity” among nurses in Botswana. Employee productivity has become a concern of ... -
Immigrants' and refugees' unmet reproductive health demands in Botswana: perceptions of public healthcare providers
(Medical and Pharmaceutical Publications, 2009)Background: The healthcare of Batswana (citizens of Botswana) as indicated in the country’s Vision 2016 is one of the top priorities of the government of Botswana, yet Botswana’s National Health Policy, the Immigration ... -
Estimating the cost of care giving on caregivers for people living with HIV and AIDS in Botswana: a cross-sectional study
(BioMed Central, www.biomedcentral.com, 2010)Background: Community home-based care is the Botswana Government's preferred means of providing care for people living with HIV (PLHIV). However, primary (family members) or volunteer (community members) caregivers experience ... -
Analysis of the burdens of caregivers providing care to people living with HIV/AIDS in Botswana
(Cogent OA, www.cogentoa.com/, 2011)Background: Caregivers, when providing care under the community home-based care (CHBC) programme, experience many burdens of a physical, emotional, financial or social nature. However, these problems are hardly ever ... -
Distribution of geometrically weighted sum of bernoulli ramdom variables
(Scientific Research, www.scirp.org/, 2011)A new class of distributions over (0,1) is obtained by considering geometrically weighted sum of independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) Bernoulli random variables. An expression for the distribution function (d.f.) is ... -
Multiple causes of death models for human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome and related mortality in South Africa in 2006 and 2007
(Dove Medical Press Ltd. www.dovepress.com/, 2012)Background: Predictive models for mortality due to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease as a result of opportunistic infections, such as tuberculosis and pneumonia, have been developed. Methods: The data are taken ... -
Healthcare providers’ perceptions of the sexual and reproductive health needs (including family planning) of elderly women from selected sites in Botswana
(Scientific Research, www.scirp.org/, 2012-09)Much of the sexual and reproductive health services and service delivery including family planning target women of child bearing ages (15 - 49 years) and sometimes men. Hardly are there programmes/interventions that ... -
Menopausal perceptions and experiences of older women from selected sites in Botswana
(Scientific Research, www.scirp.org/, 2013-07)Objective: To assess the menopausal perceptions and experiences of older women from selected sites in Botswana. De- sign: This study used snowball sampling to recruit 444 older women in four health districts of Botswana. ... -
Profitability of the informal cross-border trade: a case study of four selected borders of Botswana
(Academic Journals, www.academic journals.org, 2013-10)In this study, the views of 520 informal cross border traders, obtained using systematic sampling and snow ball techniques from four selected border posts in Botswana, were used to show how profitable ICBT is. The results ... -
Modeling severity of tuberculosis as a multiple cause of death in South Africa
(Scientific Research, www.scirp.org/, 2014)The multiple cause of death (MCOD) analysis is used to account for the full contribution of TB as acause of death to South African mortality in 2008 that were coded using ICD10. Following a review of MCOD methods, a ... -
Manpower systems operating under heavy and light tailed inter-exit time distributions
(Scientific Research, www.scirp.org/, 2014)This paper considers a Manpower system where “exits” of employed personnel produce some wastage or loss. This system monitors these wastages over the sequence of exit epochs {t0 = 0 and tk; k = 1, 2,∙∙∙} that form a re- ... -
A multivariate test for three-factor Interaction in 3 - way contingency table under the multiplicative model
(Scientific Research Publishing Inc, 2014-06-16)Abstract Two test statistics that have been commonly used in analysing interactions in contingency table are the Pearson’s Chi-square statistic, χ2, and likelihood ratio test statistic, G2. Both test statistics, in tables ... -
Knowledge and utilization of voluntary counselling and testing services for HIV by older adults (50 years and over) in Botswana
(OMICS Internationa, www.omicsonline.org/, 2015)The study explored the knowledge and use of Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) services by a stratified random sample of 609 older adults from four purposively selected districts in Botswana. Only 76.8% of the older ... -
Geo (λ)/ Geo (μ) +G/2 queues with heterogeneous servers operating under FCFS queue discipline
(Science and Education Publishing, http://www.sciepub.com, 2015-03-06)Please refer to the full text article for the abstract. -
Inclusion probabilities proportional to size sampling scheme based on splitting of sizes
(International Science Congress Association, www.isca.in/, 2015-11)Srivastava and Singh2 suggested inclusion probabilities proportional to size (IPPS or πPS) sampling scheme which depends upon a specific split of the sizes named as initial split. Each split provides a πPS sampling design ... -
Healthcare providers’ (HCPs) attitude towards older adults with HIV and AIDS in Botswana
(Academic Journals, www.academic journals.org, 2016)This study obtained the views of a random sample of 164 healthcare practitioners on their attitudes to older adults with HIV and AIDS. It shows that although the knowledge of protective measures to avoid HIV infection, ...