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Research Article Modelling Trends of Climatic Variability and Malaria in Ghana Using Vector Autoregression
Malaria is considered endemic in over hundred countries across the globe. Many cases of malaria and deaths due to malaria occur in Sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is of great public health concern since it affects people of all age groups more…
Optimum crop production and income in Brong Ahafo Region.
This paper seeks to present a proposed linear programming model to determine the best hectare allocation for optimum crop production to ensure food security and reduce poverty among farmers in the region. Five selected crops in fifteen sampled…
Application of Macrobenthic Faunal Indices in Assesssing the Ecological Quality Status of Laloi Lagoon of Ghana
The aim of this study was to assess the macrobenthic fauna structure and use its indices as a tool for characterizing the ecological state of the Laloi lagoon. Thus, a field assessment of the benthos in the Laloi lagoon was carried in January 2012.…
An Item Response Model for Understanding Item Non-response in Ghanaian Surveys
Survey research has been widely used in public opinion research in Ghana. Ghanaian researchers are happy about data richness and they are also concerned about data quality. In this paper Item Response Theory (IRT) has been used to identify the most…
Item Response Theory Model for Understanding Item Non-Response in Ghanaian Surveys
This paper explores four Item Response Theory (IRT) models to determine the most appropriate for understanding item non-response. The selected IRT model was used to identify among five categories of survey questions, the most difficult to answer by…
Discriminant Analysis of Discrimination against People with Disability
Negative stereotypes about physically challenged people result in discriminatory social policies which in turn reinforce or confirm negative attitudes that greatly affects them as they strive to function in the society, these problems create some…
Logistic Regression Model for Determining the Sex of a Child Using Age of the Mother and Month of Conception
The issue of sex determination (before conception) is beyond the study of Science. Though current studies have developed means to determine gender, it is not until the baby has been conceived. After conception, scientific methods can be used to…
Modeling the Trend of Performance of the Manchester United Football Club in the 1960-2013 English Premiership
This research studied the trend of performance of Manchester United Football Club in the 1960-2013 English premiership seasons. The three main variables involved in this study are the number of games won, games drawn and games lost by Manchester…