ABSTRACT The application of foreign life table in Sub-Sahara Africa had been a major concern all over the world. However, assessing the error for applying the foreign life tables as well as analysing the impact of the leading causes of death on Ghanaian longevity had not been studied. This study aimed at assessing the error of applying Foreign Life Tables in Ghana and analysing the impacts of the leading causes of death in Ghana. A cohort data of 3260 were collected from the University of Gha...
ABSTRACT The objective of this study has been to determine the major underlying factors that influence the choice of senior high schools. To this end, a survey of 510 BECE candidates in Junior High Schools in Nungua, a community in Accra, was conducted. The students were asked to indicate their opinions on twenty seven variables on a five-point Likert scale. The data generated from the survey were multivariate in structure since 27 variables were recorded on 510 respondents. Factor analysis, ...
ABSTRACT In this dissertation, Markov chain was used to model the rainfall pattern and sunshine duration for three regional capitals in Ghana (Tamale, Kumasi and Accra). Data on mean monthly averages and daily figures of measured parameters (sunshine duration and rainfall) for five years were used. To achieve these goals, a statistical basis was presented before adopting the three main approaches for modeling. Transition Matrix shows the short-run behavior of Markov chain; the steady-state pr...
ABSTRACT This study compares the performances of ARIMA, ARCH, GARCH, EGARCH and GJR-GARCH on their abilities in modelling and forecasting the volatility of world cocoa bean prices on the London Intercontinental Futures Exchange using weekly averages of prices in Great Britain Pounds from January 1985 through December 2017. It seeks to ascertain whether a model that provides a good in-sample fit necessarily provide the best out-of-sample forecast, in the midst of other models. A number...
ABSTRACT This study is concerned with the evaluation of the price levels of food items in various markets across Ghana. The objective was to determine the main dimensions along which to identify specific markets in which items are high-priced and those that are low-priced. To this end, data on prices in 2008 of fifteen food items in 100 selected markets from all the regions of the country were obtained from the Statistical, Research and Information Directorate of the Ministry of Food and Agri...
ABSTRACT Rainfall and temperature are important climatic factors for crop production and affects humans’ basic needs such as health, shelter, food and water in Ghana. However extreme rainfall causes flooding which can lead to loss of lives, properties among others. Extreme temperature also causes drought, hot and cold spells among others which have adverse implications on human beings and agriculture. It is therefore important to know about occurrences of such extreme events and thei...
ABSTRACT Choice of university education in Ghana is a competitive exercise for senior High School students. Choosing it requires consideration of various factors. The motivation for the study is to measure high school students’ perception of the University of Cape Coast. To this end, the study focuses on various factors. The objective of the study therefore is to determine the latent factors that are considered by the...
ABSTRACT The poor are not evenly distributed within the country and they do not share the same socio-economic and demographic characteristics. It is against this background that analysis of the characteristics that differentiate the poor from the non-poor in Ghana cannot be underestimated. Poverty indicators make it possible to analyze the likely determinants and are, therefore, essential for formulating policy interventions that may contribute directly or ...
This paper analyzes factor analysis, discussing both confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA), as they relate to survey design. Shi et al. (2017) is discussed and compared to another study applying factor analysis by Tungkunanan (2020). A discussion of how factor analysis is used in my current field and potentially for COVID research is also explored. First, however, a discussion of the history of factor analysis, how it was designed, improved, and is currently...
This paper discusses and analyzes the procedures of hypothesis testing, benefits, and detriments.
Binary response analysis is modeled when the response variable is nominal and as such violates the use of the ordinary linear regression model. This paper utilizes the classical approach to fit a categorical response regression model using the logit, probit. loglog and the complementary loglog (Cloglog) link functions under symmetric and asymmetric assumptions. It is captured in past studies that we can only make comparisons between these link functions when n is large say (n > 1000), In ...
Control chart is a useful technique which helps in detecting out of control signal in a process and it can either be a memory-type or memory-less control chart. This work is focused on evaluating the monthly incidence of diabetic disease using four univariate memory-type control charts. In this study we evaluated the average run length (ARL) properties of the memory-type control charts by adjusting the ARL value’s determinant parameters in each control charts, and the ARL value was set to...
Temperature is the coldness and hotness of the body and its unit is measured in Celsius. The data used for this research work is the average monthly temperature of Dhahran city which is located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The data range is from 1951 to 2010, and sample data of 1951 to 2008 was used for the estimation to choose the best model and the sample data from 2009 through 2010 was left for the forecast. Different models were tried but ARIMA (2, 1, 1) (0, 1, 1)12 is selected...
Abstract This paper attempts to evaluate the application of randomized complete block design (RCBD) model in improving crop production. Data for the study was sourced from an experiment that lasted for three weeks. The data were analyzed using SPSS package. After exploring the concept of the RCBD technique, the response of the soil nutrient to the treatment of the various manure types revealed that, there was a significant difference on crop yield with respect to the type of manure tre...
Abstract The current fertility rate(FR) reporting in developing and under developed countries of the globe has drawn the attention of national and demographic planners in seeking for solution to reduce the population growth and its attendant global consequences. It is in this light that this study seeks to determine some significant demographic characterization responsible for influencing fertility behavior and differentials. Using a random sample of 570 mothers both from a rural and urban e...