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Comparing Accelerated Failure Time and Cox Ph Models:a Case Study on Employee Attrition
(University of Nairobi, 2022)The goal of this project, is to compare the AFT model and Cox PH model using the employee attrition data set. Survival analysis examines the desired outcome until the occurrence of the event. Although Cox PH together ... -
Comparing different Classification Algorithms to predict the Adherence to Tuberculosis Treatment for new cases in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)This study determines factors that are associated to non-adherence to tuberculosis treatment in Kenya. In the African Region, over 25% of the tuberculosis deaths occur. Kenya is among the 30 high burden countries accounting ... -
Comparing group screening designs
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 1999)The problem of detecting defective members In a large population, consisting of defective and non-defective members has been tackled in various ways One procedure used in this kind of investigation is the group testing ... -
Comparing the effects of radiation-attenuated vaccine when administered either before or after praziquantel treatment in schistosoma mansoni infected balb/c mice
(Department of Zoology, University of Nairobi, 2006)Schistosomal vaccine candidates such as Paramyosin and Multiple antigen epitopes (MAP) are in different stages of development and clinical trials. However, it is probable that during initial field clinical trials, some ... -
Comparison Between Lee-Carter Model And Negative Binomial Regression Model In Forecasting Male Mortality Data Of Usa(1980-2020)
(University of Nairobi, 2018)People living in America today are living longer compared to yester years; this is due to reduced mortality rates and increase in life expectancy. According to (Dye & Williams, 2010) generally mortality rates have ... -
Comparison Between Two Simple Linear Catchment Models For The Yala River Basin
(Department of Meteorology, 1987)In this study, two simple linear catchment models were used to model the rainfall-runoff characteristics over Yala catchment. The first model was based on the response function. In this model a linear stochastic process ... -
Comparison of Activation Functions for Nse Stock Price Prediction.
(University of Nairobi, 2017)ANN timeseries prediction has been successfully implemented and tested on NSE stocks prediction by Barack (2014) and other stock exchanges (Safi & White 2017) however these studies focused on factors like training algorithm, ... -
Comparison of elastic net and random forest in identifying risk factors of stunting in children under five years of age in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Background: Children with a Height-for-Age (HAZ) below-2 Standards Deviations based on the World Health Organization (WHO) child growth standards median are said to be stunted. Most stunted children are too short for ... -
Comparison of estiamators in successive sampling models
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2006)Successive sampling is a type of sampling which is carried out on two or more occasions. Such sampling could either be on the same items or different items on the same population which is sampled repeatedly and the same ... -
Comparison of Hiv/aids mortality rates in an urban and a rural setting
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A comparison of log-logistic survival model to logistic model in credit risk modelling
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2008)Credit scoring systems are based on statistical and operations research models that seek to establish the likelihood of future credit behaviour based on information from past borrowers. Given that the cost of credit risk ... -
A Comparison of Parametric Methods for Modeling Mosquito Survival Using Temperature and Age-Dependent Survival Data
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2018-11)It is estimated that Malaria effects over 200million people every year, and accounts for about 750,000 deaths during the same period. The adult female Anopheles mosquito accounts for all transmissions of the human malaria ... -
Comparison of proteins of parasite stages of schistosoma mansoni and those of the tissues of the snail vector biomphalaria pfeifferi
(University of NairobiSchool of Biological Sciences, 2009)Antigen sharing between a parasite and its host is a stimulating facet of host-parasite relationship which is currently receiving considerable attention. The aim of the study was to investigate presence of common proteins ... -
Comparison of Random Survival Forests Split rules in selecting the determinants of under-five mortality in Kenya using 2014 DHS data.
(2019)Background Survival trees and Random Survival Forests are extensions of classi cation and regression trees and random forests in analyzing time to event data. These methods are alternatives to Cox Proportional hazards ... -
Comparison of regional flood estimation models over some catchents in Kenya
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A comparison of the classical black-scholes model and the Garch option pricing model for currency options.
(School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, 2008)This study looks at the consequences of introducing heteroscedasticity in option pricing. The analysis shows that introducing heteroscedasticity results in a better fitting of the empirical distribution of foreign exchange ... -
Comparison of the effects of praziquantel and metrifonate treatment in schistosoma haematobium (mazeras strain) infection in hamsters
(Department of Zoology, University of Nairobi., 2004)Schistosomiasis is the second most important parasitic infection, after malaria, mainly infecting poor people in the tropics who can hardly afford the cost of the currently available drugs for treatment. Consequently, ... -
Comparison Of The Efficacy Of Melia Volkensii (Gurke) Azadirachtin, Pyrethrum Plant Extracts, Cubex And Steladoner On Cattle Ticks, rhipicephalus Appendiculatus And Boophilus Decoloratus
(University of NairobiSchool of Biological Sciences, 1996)The objectives of this study were to determine the toxicity of M. volkensii plant extract on the larvae, nymphae and adult Rhipicephalus appendiculatus ticks and to compare the effects with those of the ticks treated ... -
A comparison of the moving averag, garth ( I I) and arch volatility models as measure of returns
(School of mathematics, 2012-11)Many empirical studies have shown strong evidence against some of the underlying assumptions of the Black Scholes Model. However this paper has focussed on the constant value that is assumed for the volatility. Empirical ... -
A comparison of the socio-economic status of female-headed and male-headed households in Kenya: Use of ordinal logistic regression
(University of Nairobi, 2018)With the HIV/AIDS epidemic, there is an increase in the number of female-headed households in Kenya. Most of these are living in abject poverty as compared to the male-headed households. For such households, the ...