The main purpose of modelling rare events such as heavy rainfall, heat waves,
wind speed, interest rate and many other rare events is to try and mitigate
the risk that might arise from these events. Heavy rainfall and ...
This thesis is based on application of frailty and copula models to under five
child mortality data set in South Africa. The main purpose of the study was to
apply sample splitting techniques in a survival analysis setting ...
Malaria is a mosquito borne disease, a major cause of human morbidity and
mortality in most of the developing countries in Africa. South Africa is one of
the countries with high risk of malaria transmission, with many ...
Recurrent peritonitis is a major problem of peritoneal dialysis (PD) due to its association with technique failure in the dialysis process. The literature on peritonitis focused only on investigating major risk factors ...
Temperature extremes have a crucial impact on agricultural, economic, health
and energy sectors due to the occurrence of climate extreme events such as
heat waves and cold waves. Limpopo province is among the hottest ...
A number of previous research studies have investigated volatility and financial risks
in the ermeging markets. This dissertation investigates stock returns volatility and
financial risks in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange ...
Operations Research (OR) is a scientific method for developing quantitatively
well-grounded recommendations for decision making. While it is true that it
uses a variety of mathematical techniques, OR has a much broader ...
If study subjects are tracked long enough, it is a typical assumption in survival analysis that they will eventually experience the event of interest. However, that is not always the case. In reality, it is not uncommon ...
The financial sector is vital to the economy as it encourages economic growth.
Therefore, modelling the extremes and risk management of financial stock returns
and losses is vital to economic survival. However, with ...
Business owners play a vital role in the social and economic development of
South Africa by providing employment and services to the country’s citizens.
South African infrastructure and community services are maintained ...
Business owners play a vital role in the social and economic development of
South Africa by providing employment and services to the country’s citizens.
South African infrastructure and community services are maintained ...
Injury is a truly global health issue with massive societal and economic consequences.
In this study, Negative-Binomial integer-valued generalised autoregressive
conditional heteroscedasticity (NB-INGARCH) and autoregressive ...
Statistics of extremes has seen much growth both in theory and application since its early theoretical developments almost a century ago in the 1920s and its first major applications to real-life problems pioneered by Emil ...
Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) is a process of replacing kidney function which cleans
waste from the blood and remove extra fluid from the body. In most cases, the
process of PD is slowed down by a peritoneal membrane infection ...
The health and survival of children are important measures of the social wellbeing and health status of the community. The World Community made a commitment to reduce under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and ...
Water is a precious natural resource and one of the most vital substance
for sustainability of life . The increase in water evaporation is a major prob lem where factors such as high temperature and minimum rainfall are ...