BACKGROUND : Diabetes prevalence, as well as that of pre-diabetes, is rapidly increasing in South Africa. Individuals with pre-diabetes have a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, which is reversible with a change in ...

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Using the simple random sampling (SRS) for collecting the income data may results poor estimators specially when the sample size is not enough large. Since under this circumstance, it may be difficult to obtain a representative ...

Equitable allocation of resources targeting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at the local level requires focusing interventions in areas of the greatest need. Understanding the geographical variation in the HIV ...

The beta generator technique entails constructing a univariate distribution function as a composite function of two distribution functions. The success of this technique in the univariate setting has prompted research into ...

PURPOSE : Several surgical and clinical procedures are performed in the area of the medial compartment of the thigh. This places the obturator nerve and its branches in potential danger of injury. This study aimed to ...

The non-parametric Gaussian mixture of regressions (NPGMRs) model serves as a flexible approach for the determination of latent heterogeneous regression relationships. This model assumes that the component means, variances ...

The mixture of generalised linear models (MGLM) requires knowledge about each mixture component’s specific exponential family (EF) distribution. This assumption is relaxed and a mixture of semi-parametric generalised ...

This paper proposes a previously unconsidered generalization of the Lindley distribution by allowing for a measure of noncentrality. Essential structural characteristics are investigated and derived in explicit and ...

The logistics and cost of running large class tutorials to improve learning for students in high enrolment courses raise questions about whether the associated effort and cost are worthwhile. The option to replace these ...