ABSTRACT Routine inspections are conducted at various food establishments that yield large data sets, which capture attributes useful for data mining algorithms to predict critical violations. Critical violations related to food establishments cause serious public health problems, which may happen as result of unhygienic environment, leading to food contamination. This study presents predictive models to detect critical violations in food establishments by employing Logistic Regression (LR),...
Abstract: Control charts are considered as powerful tools in detecting any shift in a process. Usually, the Shewhart control chart is used when data follows the symmetrical property of a normal distribution. In practice, the data from the industry may follow a non-symmetrical distribution or an unknown distribution. The average run length (ARL) is a significant measure to assess the performance of the control chart. The ARL may mislead when the statistic is computed from an asymmetric distri...
ABSTRACT The study examined men's involvement in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) ofl-IIV programmes in the Federal Teaching Hospital Ido-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study aimed at identifying correlates of PMTCT in the hospital. Questionnaires was used to elicit information from eligible respondents in the study area. Response were analysed at univariate by using simple frequency distribution and percentage. Cross- tabulation was done to examine the relationship betwe...
ABSTRACT The study described the neighborhood factors influencing contraceptive use among adolescents in Ile Ife. The problems of unwanted pregnancy and inadequate use of contraceptive methods among adolescents is worse in developing countries like Nigeria due to uneven distribution of contraceptives and lack of knowledge on its uses. This study was carried to examine the neighborhood factors affecting contraceptive knowledge among adolescents in Ile Ife. The study made use of primary data wh...
Abstract Nigeria is a country with one of the world’s highest rate of under-five mortality. Any innovative research aimed at bringing solutions to this problem should be considered worthwhile. This study examined how socio-economic, demographic and cultural factors (called underlying factors), influence under-five mortality in Nigeria by identifying some other direct factors (called proximate determinants) through which the underlying factors influence under-five mortality. It used data fro...
Abstract Nigeria is a country with one of the world’s highest rate of under-five mortality. Any innovative research aimed at bringing solutions to this problem should be considered worthwhile. This study examined how socio-economic, demographic and cultural factors (called underlying factors), influence under-five mortality in Nigeria by identifying some other direct factors (called proximate determinants) through which the underlying factors influence under-five mortality. It used d...
ABSTRACT Problems of pregnancy and birth delivery cause more deaths and disability than any other reproductive health problem. The situation is worse in developing countries like Nigeria due to inadequate access to antenatal care services and lack of utilization. A pregnancy not long after the previous childbirth may result in poor health outcomes for the mother, poor health status for the child and a reduction in probability of survival for both mother and child. There are past studies on m...
Abstract Lack of contraceptives use is major concerns not only in Sub-Saharan Africa but also in many other developing countries in the world especially in Nigeria. Therefore, this study assess the factors that determines contraceptive useamong couples in Nigeria, Data were obtained from 2013 NDHS, and weighted sample of 38,676. Univariate result showed that the socio demographic factor is significant with the contraceptive use. The bivariate analysis revealed that there is a significant ass...
ABSTRACT In Nigeria, not many considerations have been taken into the health of vulnerable children at the Internally Displaced Persons Camp. Hence, the need for more research that will help in designing necessary intervention programme. This study examines the determinants of child health among internally displaced persons in Taraba State, using data from a well-structured questimmaire. Binary logistic regression model was ernployed in multivariate analysis. Findings revealed that women betw...
ABSTRACT The study examined women's autonomy by fertility behaviour in northern Nigeria using Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey women recode dataset. Analyses were done at three levels, univariate level by means of frequency distribution, bivariate level by using Chi-square test and multivariate level by the use of multinomial logistic regression models. Findings revealed that 7.1 % of women enjoyed autonomy. In all, 63. 7% of women were working and there was a significance relationship ...
ABSTRACT This study was done to determine the model for endowment life insurance in Tanzania. Longitudinal research design covering data from year 2003 to 2017 was used. These data were typically secondary collected from the National Insurance Corporation (T) Limited. A trend line graph was used to fit the demand model to predict the endowment life insurance in Tanzania. Among the fitted models, cubic regression model was found to be the best model fit for endowment life insurance. The study...
Abstract: The exchange rate is one of the macro-economic variables that have an impact on macroeconomic with its different sectors and the Exchange rate policy is one the most important policies that adopted by some countries to solve some of the economic problems. Therefore we must stand on timeline impact of the exchange rate in Sudan and build a predictive model for predicting exchange rates in Sudan. It requires finding suitable models to the nature of commercial time-series data. We mus...
Abstract . Introduction In this research life time distribution known as exponentiated inverse Rayleigh distribution (EIRD) was developed and it can be used in reliability estimation and statistical quality control techniques. Te Rayleigh distribution is originated from two parameter Weibull distribution and it is appropriate model for life-testing studies. It can be shown by transformation of random variable that if the random variable (r. v) T has Rayleigh distribution, then the r. v. � =...