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Modelling Hydrological Response to Urbanization: Case Study Syokimau – Katani Area, Machakos County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)The Syokimau – Katani peri-urban catchment has over time been affected by adverse urban development related flooding. The encroachment of the expanding Nairobi city on this metropolitan space has spurred the mushrooming ... -
Modelling Impacts Of Climate Change On Tree Biomass And Distribution In Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)The Arabuko Sokoke forest ecosystem is characterized by degradation from natural and anthropogenic drivers. Despite these challenges the forest has no study on how climate change will impact on forest biomass and species ... -
Modelling influenza incidence in relation to meteorological parameters in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Meteorological parameters are believed to play a role in the influenza seasonality; influenza activities occurs sporadically all year round in the tropical regions with some peaks coinciding with rainy season and cold ... -
Modelling intrinsic and potential growth of Acacia Senegal under varying nutrient conditions
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2004)This study uses a logistic model to a repeated measures data and models the intrinsic growth, time of maximum growth rate and potential growth of Acacia Senegal tree seedlings. Various factors such as the silvicultural ... -
Modelling Mothers’ Socio-Economic and Demographic Determinants of Nutritional Health of Children Under Five in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)This study analyzes how socio economic and demographic factors in uence Nutritional status of Kenyan children aged 0-59 months. Since malnutrition is classi ed as a critical health problem in sub-saharan Africa, this ... -
Modelling Multi-Drug Resistance During Chemotherapy Of Animal African Trypanosomiasis In Kwale, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Multi-drug resistance (MDR) has complicated treatment and control of numerous infectious diseases. The extent and rate of increase of MDR varies widely with different drug-pathogen combinations. Each year, animal African ... -
Modelling non-obstetric factors of cesarean section births
(School of mathematics, 2010-09)Cesarean section (CS) can be a life-saving technique for both mother and infant. On the other hand it presents documented medical risks such to both mother and baby, which if anticipated can be averted or have their ... -
Modelling of Auto Insurance Claims Using Discrete Probability Distributions
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Within general insurance, pricing of premiums is always a challenging task. Frequency of claims plays a big part in pricing of premiums. Frequency of claims are determined by the attributes of a particular policy holder. ... -
Modelling of Market Stock Using the Normal Variance Models
(University of Nairobi, 2019)Great work has been done on modeling of nancial instruments namely,shares,equities, stocks and many more.The focus of this thesis is mainly modeling of stocks based on normal mixtures.The essence of this work is to do ... -
Modelling of smear positive tuberculosis (PTB+) treatment outcome data in Kenya for the period 2002-2007
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2009)In this research project, we review and use two statistical methods namely poisson regression and multinomial logit regression are used to model rates of outcomes of count data. Thestudy reviews the research work on ... -
Modelling Rainfall Using Generalized Linear Models When The Response Variable Has A Tweedie Distribution
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Modelling School Factors And Performance In Mathematics And Science In Kenyan Secondary Schools Using Canonical Correlation Analysis
(University of Nairobi, 2017)The level of performance and participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) career subjects remains low in Kenya despite STEM’s critical role in economic development. Numerous factors contribute ... -
Modelling Socio-Economic and Demographic Determinants of Financial Inclusion Among RuralWomen in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)In this study, we consider determinants of nancial inclusion among rural women in Kenya as a special interest group. More precisely, we model socio-economic determinants of nancial inclusion among these rural women. ... -
Modelling Survival Among Patients With Prostate Cancer in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Prostate cancer is among the most common types of cancers in men in Kenya and worldwide. The exact cause of the prostate cancer is unclear. However, previous research has indicated that there are risk factors likely to ... -
Modelling survival for patients in relation to central venous catheter and nosocomial blood stream infections: a case study of Aga Khan university hospital, Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2016)Background Study was focussed on survival rates of patients admitted in acute care units who utilized medical devices known as Central Venous Catheters (CVC). CVC are useful devices in clinical care, however some ... -
Modelling teachers' duration in service in public schools and institutions in kenya
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi,, 2008)There has been increased enrollment in both primary and secondary schools in Kenya since the government implemented the free primary education in 2003 and now the subsidized secondary education. This means a higher demand ... -
Modelling telephone call center arrivals as a nonhomogenous poisson process with cyclic rate
(University of Nairobi, 2014)This project demonstrates that telephone call center call-arrival data can be effectively modelled as anonhomogenous Poisson process with cyclic rate. The data was from an Israeli bank telephone call center collected ... -
Modelling the cure rates of Female Sex Workers with STIs using a Mover-Stayer Markov chain Model
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Generally human beings undergo di erent types of diseases. One such are sexually transmitted infections(STIs)which are either chronic or curable. In this study, a Markov model, speci cally a Mover-Stayer Markov Chain ... -
Modelling the Determinants of Underemployment Among Youths in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Unemployment is mainly used as the indicator for labour underutilization. Underemployment is higher than the unemployment rate in 65% of the African countries (ILO, n.d.). Kenya’s unemployment rate is 7:4%, underemployment ... -
Modelling the factors contributing to under-five mortality in Somalia
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Under-five mortality rate is the key indicator of both child well-being and coverage of child survival interventions factoring social and economic development. This is in line with Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) ...
