Mangani, Robert; Mazarura, Jocelyn; Matlou, Solly; Marquart, Arnim; Archer, Emma Rosa Mary; Creux, Nicky(Springer, 2025-02)
South Africa’s climate studies generally focus on coarser provincial levels, which aid policy recommendations, but have limited application at the farm level. District level climate studies are essential for farmer ...
Ramagole, Dimakatso Althea; Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina; Cowie, Charlotte; Mehta, Ritan; Ramkilawon, Gopika Devi; Pluim, Babette M.; Kerkhoffs, Gino M.M.J.; Gouttebarge, Vincent(MDPI, 2025-02)
The aim of this paper is to explore the gynaecological health patterns, contraceptive use, body perception, and motherhood experiences of female professional football players. The participants were recruited via email using ...
BACKGROUND: Identification of common spatial disease trends between cattle bovine tuberculosis (BTB) and human extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) and drug-resistant tuberculosis (DRTB) can support integrated disease control ...
The search and construction of appropriate and flexible models for describing and
modelling empirical data sets incongruent with normality retains a sustained interest.
This paper focuses on proposing flexible skew Laplace ...
De Klerk, Michelle; Fabris-Rotelli, Inger Nicolette(Copernicus Publications, 2024-10)
The accessibility to basic facilities and services plays a pivotal role in every society and city planning. Spatial accessibility can vary
between cities and countries and is mainly defined by the ease at which facilities ...
Accessibility analyses quantify the level of access to certain areas or opportunities, such as employment and healthcare facilities. Since public data is often aggregated at the level of regions, such as administrative ...
Big data poses challenges for storage, management, processing, analysis and visualisation. One technique of handling big data
is the use of a representative sample of the data. This paper proposes a sampling algorithm ...
Boshielo, Patience Matshepo; Jansen van Rensburg, Audrey; Viljoen, Carel Thomas; Botha, Tanita; De Villiers, Christina Elizabeth; Ramagole, Dimakatso Althea; Seyani, Limbikani; Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina(Taylor and Francis, 2025)
OBJECTIVES : Trail running is a popular off-road sport involving running in natural environments over various terrains, often in remote locations. This study aims to investigate the epidemiology and risk factors of injuries ...
Cronje, Rouxzan; Beukes, Johanni; Masenge, Andries; Du Toit, P.J.; Bipath, Priyesh(International Society for Neurofeedback & Research, 2024-03-29)
The aim of this study was to investigate whether the inflammatory marker neopterin and certain neurophysiological measurements could be used as complementary markers for stress and anxiety symptoms as determined by the ...
Van der Mescht, Mieke Adri; Steel, Helen C.; De Beer, Zelda; Masenge, Andries; Abdullah, Fareed; Ueckermann, Veronica; Anderson, Ronald; Rossouw, Theresa M.(MDPI, 2024-11)
Whether SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to a higher mortality and morbidity in people living
with HIV (PLWH) in Africa remains inconclusive. In this study, we explored the differences in the
T-cell phenotypes between people ...
INTRODUCTION: Retropubic hematomas are a common development in cases of pelvic ring trauma and post-operative repair of fractures to the anterior column of the pelvis. Early detection and diagnosis of such events using
computed ...
BACKGROUND : The majority of phase 3 clinical trials are implemented in multiple sites or centres, which inevitably leads to a correlation between observations from the same site or centre. This correlation must be carefully ...
Count regression models, particularly negative binomial regression (NBR), are widely
used in various fields, including biometrics, ecology, and insurance. Over-dispersion is likely
when dealing with count data, and NBR ...
Spatial regression models are widely available across several disciplines, such as functional
magnetic resonance imaging analysis, econometrics, and house price analysis. In nature,
sparsity occurs when a limited number ...
The classical Cox model is the most popular procedure for studying right-censored data
in survival analysis. However, it is based on the fundamental assumption of proportional hazards
(PH). Modified Cox models, stratified ...
In this paper, we introduce the skew-symmetric generalized normal and the skewsymmetric generalized t distributions, which are skewed extensions of symmetric special cases
of generalized skew-normal and generalized skew-t ...
The homogeneously weighted moving average (HWMA) chart is a recent control chart
that has attracted the attention of many researchers in statistical process control (SPC). The HWMA
statistic assigns a higher weight to ...
The Extended Cox model provides an alternative to the proportional hazard Cox model for modelling data including time-varying covariates. Incorporating time-varying covariates is particularly beneficial when dealing with ...
Kruger, Christa; Fletcher, Lizelle(Taylor and Francis, 2025)
Previous empirical studies on the relationship between psychotic
symptoms and dissociative disorders focused on auditory
hallucinations only or employed limited statistical analyses. We
investigated whether the frequency ...