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Modelling Economic Determinants Of Youth Unemployment In Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Despite numerous interventions by government and development partners, youth unemployment has remained an intractable challenge in Kenya. The “youth bulge” and attending challenges of unemployment resulting in social ... -
Modelling Efficacy of Demographic Changes on Capital Investment Returns: A Case of Kenya between 1965 and 2015
(University of Nairobi, 2020) -
Modelling Exchange Rate Volatility of Kenya’s Top Five Trade Partners Research Report in Mathematics,number 15, 2018
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Theworld has become a global village and trade among countries has also become inevitable. Since most countries use their own domestic currencies, how much of one currency should be exchanged for another has slowly become ... -
Modelling Exchange Rate Volatility Of KES/USD Using Garch Family Models
(University of Nairobi, 2014-07)Investors, Policy makers, Governments etc. are all consumers of exchange rates data and thus exchange rate volatility is of great interest to them. In this paper, the importance of exchange rate volatility modelling has ... -
Modelling extreme claims using generalised pareto distributions family in an insurance company
(University of Nairobi, 2015)The project focuses on modeling and estimating loss claims from Insurance company. Generalized Pareto distributions family was used and compared to come with a best fitting distribution. These distributions include ... -
Modelling Fatalities Associated With Road Traffic Accidents And Other Factors Using Poisson Model
(UoN, 2019)According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2018), 1.35 million people died in 2016 on the world’s roads, with road tra c injuries being the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 529 years. Road ... -
Modelling Green Gram Production in Kenya Under the Current and Future Climates
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Green gram is one of the legumes considered suitable for cultivation in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) of Kenya. However, the area that is currently suitable remains small due to inadequate knowledge on the variation ... -
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. ...