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Pricing of an Education and unemployment insurance policy
(2014)The purpose of this project is to price an education and unemployment insurance cover. The idea was informed by the high demand for higher education and the high unemployment rates in Kenya. This culminates the financial ... -
The pricing of conventional life insurance Products by reflecting mortality risks
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2002)This project paper discusses the life insurance product pricing by showing how insurers estimate their costs of providing a product's benefits and incorporating this cost into the product's price, along with an underwriting ... -
Pricing of Futures With Basis Risk
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Pricing of Micro-insurance Product for Medical Insurance in Kenya Using Black-scholes Model
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Insurance is increasingly becoming more of a commodity, with customers often choosing their insurer purely on the basis of price. New products are being developed every day to meet the growing demands of the growing workforce ... -
Pricing on individual health insurance
(University of Nairobi, 2014-07)“How much” is the main problem at task in the health care insurance. This becomes more complex situation when it comes to the case of projecting on future possible financial scenarios. Due to the rising cost of health ... -
Pricing Options Using Trinomial Lattice Method
(University Of Nairobi, 2016)How much to spend on option contract is the main problem at the task in pricing options. This become more complex when it comes to the case of projecting the future possible price of the option. This is attainable if one ... -
Pricing unemployment insurance using burr xii mixture distributions and C.A.P.M with application to USA data
(University of Nairobi, 2016-08)The objective of this research is to consider varying unemployment duration in the pricing of unemployment insurance with application to USA data. The study assumes that unemployment duration follows Burr XII mixture ... -
Primary productivity dynamics in the winam gulf of Lake Victoria
(University of Nairobi, 1989-04)Primary productivity in the Winam Sulf and the various factors that are likely to influence it were studied from February, 1986 to May, 1987. Surface water temperature varied little among the fi/e sampling stations ... -
Primary productivity in relation to environmental variables of a semi-arid grassland ecosystem in Kenya
(Department of Botany, University of Nairobi, 1987)A semi-arid grassland was investigated for biomass production and the factors that influence its productivity. Live aboveground biomass ranged from 73 g m-2 in October 1984 to 338 g m-2 in April 1985. Peak live biomass ... -
The primary productivity of papyrus (cyperus papyrus l.) in relation to environmental variables
(University of NairobiDepartment of Botany, University of Nairobi, 1985)Papyrus growth dynamics, culm density, standing biomass, primary productivity and prevailing environmental variables (light, temperature and nutrients) were investigated in Lake Naivasha papyrus swamp. The effect of ... -
Primary productivity, energy flow and nitrogen cycling in a rangeland ecosystem
(School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1998)A study was conducted to estimate and characterize the structure and function of a rangeland ecosystem on the Njemps flats of Baringo District, Kenya. Herbaceous primary production and productivity were estimated, and ... -
Priming effects of Television on voting patterns. The case of the March 2013 Presidential elections
(University of Nairobi, 2013)This study was an evaluation of the effect of priming from TV media on the decision making patterns of the Kenyan people, during the March 2013 presidential elections. The objectives of the study were to investigate the ... -
The Principal Fibre Bundle and Riemannian connection on Riemannian Manifold
(School of mathematics, 2012-06)Differential geometry has long history as a field of mathematics and yet its rigorous foundation in the realm of contemporary mathematics is relatively new. We have written this project, Principal fibre bundles and ... -
Private Cloud Network Management System
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Network Automation is the game-changer in Network Management in most organizations and across the world. This is bring about change and shift in the way network configuration, design deployment, and monitoring have been ... -
Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Southern Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Kenya’s Indian Ocean coastline is a passive continental margin that resulted from the breakup of the East and West Gondwanaland supercontinent during the Jurassic-Tertiary age and is consequently expected to have minimal ... -
Probability distributions based on difference differential equations for pure birth processes
(University of NairobiSchool of Mathematics, 2013)The main objective of this work is to identify probability distributions emerging by solving difference- differential equations of a pure birth process given by p~ ( t) = - "-0 Po(t) for n = 0 and p~ (t) = - "-n Pn( t) ... -
Processing of structured documents using DSSSL
(2000)All documents are made up of a set of components. Take a case of documents composed in natural languages such as English. The document consists of sentences which are identified by full stops. Each time we come across a ... -
A produce-based credit service model: case for Limuru farmers dairy cooperative
(University of NairobiSchool of Computing and Informatics, 2012)For many years, Kenya has relied on coffee, tea and horticulture for empowerment of small holder farmers in the rural areas. This trend is changing as dairy farming has taken a key role complementing the traditional cash ... -
The production and fate of grasslands in Masai-Mara National reserve, Kenya
(School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi, 1998)A quantitative study of grassland standing crop and the losses through large herbivore offtake, tourist off-road driving. and fire was conducted in Masai Mara National Reserve for approximately one year. The Harvest ... -
Project Documentation
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2005)The objective of this study is to discuss Life Insurance Reserving methods by comparing different methods based on statutory requirements and for internal management purposes. The suitability of each of the methods depends ...