American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics

Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2018

  • First–Passage Time Moment Approximation for the General Diffusion Process to a General Moving Barrier

    Basel Mohammad Said Al-Eideh

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2018
    Pages: 167-172
    Received: Jun. 13, 2018
    Accepted: Jul. 09, 2018
    Published: Aug. 02, 2018
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    Abstract: The problem of determining the first-passage times to a moving barrier for diffusion and other Markov processes arises in biological modeling, population growth, statistics, engineering, etc. Since the development of mathematical models for population growth of great importance in many fields. Therefore, the growth and decline of real populations c... Show More
  • A Univariate Time Series Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Model for the Exchange Rate Between Nigerian Naira and US Dollar

    Nasiru Mukaila Olakorede, Samuel Olayemi Olanrewaju, Maji Yusufu Ugbede

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2018
    Pages: 173-179
    Received: Mar. 09, 2018
    Accepted: Mar. 30, 2018
    Published: Aug. 06, 2018
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    Abstract: This research fit a univariate time series ARIMA model to the Monthly data of exchange rate between Nigerian Naira and US Dollar from January 1980 to December 2015. The Box-Jenkins Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model was estimated and the best fitted ARIMA model is used to obtain the post-sample forecasts for three years (January... Show More
  • Necessary Conditions for Isolation of Special Classes of Bilinear Autoregressive Moving Average Vector (BARMAV) Models

    Anthony Effiong Usoro, Eyo Awakessien Clement

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2018
    Pages: 180-187
    Received: Jul. 22, 2018
    Accepted: Aug. 07, 2018
    Published: Sep. 04, 2018
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    Abstract: Bilinear Autoregressive Moving Average Vector (BARMAV) Models are models aggregated with the linear and non-linear vector components of autoregressive and moving average processes. The linear part is the sum of the two vector processes, while the non-linear part is the product of the processes. From the general BARMAV models, Bilinear Autoregressiv... Show More
  • Statistical Analysis of Factors Affecting Poverty Status of Rural Residence

    Bereket Getachew Mamo, Markos Abiso

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2018
    Pages: 188-192
    Received: Jul. 05, 2018
    Accepted: Aug. 06, 2018
    Published: Sep. 21, 2018
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    Abstract: Poverty is one of the serious problem affect the life of peoples in third world countries. Identifying major factors affecting poverty status of a society is important to decide what action should be taken to alleviate the poverty. The aim of this paper is to assess the factors that affect the poverty status of rural Residence in the study area. A ... Show More
  • A Comparison of Poisson Model and Modified Poisson Model in Modelling Relative Risk of Childhood Diabetes in Kenya

    Christine Gacheri Mutuura, Anthony Kibira Wanjoya, Isaiah Njoroge Mwangi

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2018
    Pages: 193-199
    Received: May 26, 2015
    Accepted: Jun. 07, 2015
    Published: Oct. 11, 2018
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    Abstract: This study models the relative risk of diabetes, taking obesity and malnutrition as the major risk factors to define exposure, using three different prevalence rates i.e. 3%, 7% and 11% (estimates and projections from various studies). Secondary data consisting of a sample population of 300 children from the Kenya Diabetes Management and Informatio... Show More