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Research Articles (Statistics)
Recent Submissions
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Likassa, Habte Tadesse; Chen, Ding-Geng (Din); Chen, Kewei; Wang, Yalin; Zhu, Wenhui
(MDPI, 2024-07)
Please read abstract in the article.
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Botes, Rian Hendrik; Fabris-Rotelli, Inger Nicolette; Mahloromela, Kabelo; Chen, Ding-Geng (Din)
(Elsevier, 2025-03)
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Tshabalala, Khanyisile; Fabris-Rotelli, Inger Nicolette; Basu, Debashis; Myburgh, Magriet; Abdullah, Fareed
(AOSIS, 2025-03)
BACKGROUND : Before coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), global health was improving, with
declining mortality trends. The pandemic disrupted this progress, increasing mortality in
South Africa between April 2020 and ...
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Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Rossouw, G.J.; Van Staden, Paul Jacobus
(Springer, 2024-05)
We recorded intra-sexual behaviour of adult male sub-Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus tropicalis at Gough Island, Southern
Ocean, during the 1975/76 summer breeding season. Our re-analysed data address male ‘contest ...
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Belay, Alebachew Taye; Belay, Denekew Bitew; Yilema, Seyifemickael Amare; Moyehodie, Yikeber Abebaw
(Wiley, 2025-04)
BACKGROUND : The poliovirus is mostly transmitted by the fecal–oral route and can cause viremia after replication in the gastrointestinal tract. The current global coverage of polio immunization is 85%, against the 90% ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Ngwira, Alfred; Manda, S.O.M. (Samuel); Karimuribo, Esron D.; Kimera, Sharadhuli Iddi
(Elsevier, 2024-12)
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 ...
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Otto, A.F.; Bekker, Andriette, 1958-; Ferreira, Johannes Theodorus; Arslan, O.
(Springer, 2024-11)
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 ...
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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 ...
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Thiede, Renate Nicole; Fabris-Rotelli, Inger Nicolette; Debba, Pravesh; Cleghorn, Christopher
(Copernicus Publications, 2024-10)
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 ...
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Rangongo, Tshepiso Selaelo; Fabris-Rotelli, Inger Nicolette; Thiede, Renate Nicole
(Copernicus Publications, 2024-10)
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 ...
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Likassa, Habte Tadesse; Chen, Ding-Geng (Din); Sun, Dayu
(Lifescience Global, 2024-11-26)
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Naicker, Jade; Tshabalala, Zithulele Nkosinathi; Janse van Rensburg, Jacques; Masenge, Andries; Modisane, Obakeng; Matshidza, Steven; Mogale, Nkhensani
(Elsevier, 2024-12)
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 ...
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Mazinu, Mikateko; Gwebushe, Nomonde; Manda, S.O.M. (Samuel); Reddy, Tarylee
(BMC, 2025-01)
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 ...
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Lukman, Adewale F.; Albalawi, Olayan; Arashi, Mohammad; Allohibi, Jeza; Alharbi, Abdulmajeed Atiah; Farghali, Rasha A.
(MDPI, 2024-09-20)
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 ...
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Al-Momani, Marwan; Arashi, Mohammad
(MDPI, 2024-02)
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 ...
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