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Research Articles (Statistics): Recent submissions
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(Springer, 2020-12)Efforts are being made to contain rabies in Tanzania, reported in the southern highland regions, since 1954, and endemic in all districts in Tanzania currently. It has been determined that mass vaccination of at least 70% ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2021)OBJECTIVE : To describe the effect of tinnitus distress on the hearing-related quality of life (QoL) outcomes over time in adult cochlear implant (CI) recipients. DESIGN : A retrospective, longitudinal study of adult CI ...
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(Springer, 2020-12)Artificial Intelligence (AI), and in particular, the explainability thereof, has gained phenomenal attention over the last few years. Whilst we usually do not question the decision-making process of these systems in ...
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(Springer, 2020-12)Current research on wildlife security games has minimal focus on performance evaluation. The performance of the rangers is evaluated by assessing their game utility, sometimes in comparison with their maximin utility, and ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2020-04-09)This paper introduces a new family of matrix variate distributions based on the mean-mixture of normal (MMN) models. The properties of the new matrix variate family, namely stochastic representation, moments and ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2020-01)The purpose of this paper is to introduce a useful online interactive dashboard (https://mahdisalehi.shinyapps.io/Covid19Dashboard/) that visualize and follow confirmed cases of COVID-19 in real-time. The dashboard was ...
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(Higher Education South Africa, 2020-03)While great strides have been made to improve accessibility to higher education in South Africa, successful completion of bachelor's degrees within the prescribed time remains a challenge. Research suggests that a lack ...
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(MDPI Publishing, 2020-07-29)The assumption of symmetry is often incorrect in real-life statistical modeling due to asymmetric behavior in the data. This implies a departure from the well-known assumption of normality defined for innovations in time ...
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(MDPI Publishing, 2020-05-26)South Africa has great potential for considering wind energy as an alternative resource. The climatology allows for significant wind energy production. An accurate joint description of the wind speed (linear) and wind ...
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(Education Association of South Africa, 2020-12)Modern science education the world over deliberately remains in the objective, rational, positivist paradigm. In South African classrooms, this paradigm is often alienating for young learners who then stop learning science ...
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(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020-08)OBJECTIVES: We report the effectiveness of a mentoring approach to improve health workers’ (HWs’) knowledge, attitudes and confidence with counselling on HIV and infant feeding. DESIGN: Quasi-experimental controlled ...
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(Elsevier, 2020-11)BACKGROUND : Alcohol use among Chinese vocational school students is widespread and associated with many negative consequences. However, alcohol-specific antecedents for this population are understudied. OBJECTIVES : The ...
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(Elsevier, 2020-07)OBJECTIVES : To describe the perceptions of South African elite and semi-elite athletes on return to sport (RTS); maintenance of physical conditioning and other activities; sleep; nutrition; mental health; healthcare access; ...
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(Routledge, 2020)Informal unpaved roads in developing countries arise naturally through human movement without government authorities being informed. These roads are not authorized nor maintained by council, nor reliably mapped in ...
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(Hindawi Publishing, 2020-04-29)Most topic models are constructed under the assumption that documents follow a multinomial distribution. The Poisson distribution is an alternative distribution to describe the probability of count data. For topic modelling, ...
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(Hindawi Publishing, 2020-04-25)This paper introduces an enriched α − μ distribution which may act as fading model with its origins via the scale mixture construction. The distribution’s characteristics are visited and its feasibility as a fading candidate ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2020-07-29)Although theoretical training of veterinary students is uncomplicated even for larger groups, practical training remains a challenge. Much has been said about the value of practical training in curriculum design. Yet, ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2019)This article explores the effects of group life design counselling on unemployed young adults’ career adaptability skills. Purposive and criterion sampling were used to select 62 participants involved in a skills programme ...
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(Elsevier, 2019-10)Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) provide a potential alternative to chemical insecticides to control root-feeding pests of agricultural and forestry crops. One of the challenges in using EPNs in these environments is low ...
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