Browsing Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Statistics and Population Studies) by Title
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Proximate determinants of fertility and contraceptive use among currently married women in Ethiopia
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Fertility is one of the elements in population dynamics that has significant contribution towards changing population size and structure over time. In Ethiopia, fertility dropped only slightly between 2000 and 2005, from ... -
Public sector spending in Nigeria: implications for poverty, demographic changes and millennium development goals target
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)Over the last two decades, budgetary allocations to both the Health and Education sectors have been on the increase in Nigeria, while a counter-factual feedback on its effects for various economic groups and distributional ... -
Some non-standard statistical dependence problems
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)The major result of this thesis is the development of a framework for the application of pair-mixtures of copulas to model asymmetric dependencies in bivariate data. The main motivation is the inadequacy of mixtures of ... -
Statistical modelling of clustered and incomplete data with applications in population health studies in developing countries
(University of Western Cape, 2014)The United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) drafted eight goals to be achieved by the year 2015, namely: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender ... -
Survival modelling and analysis of HIV/AIDS patients on HIV care and antiretroviral treatment to determine longevity prognostic factors
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)The HIV/AIDS pandemic has been a torment to the African developmental agenda, especially the Southern African Development Countries (SADC), for the past two decades. The disease and condition tends to affect the productive ... -
Violence against women in Burkina Faso: A quantitative and qualitative study
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Many socio-anthropological and/or quantitative studies have attempted to address the issue of violence against women indirectly by focusing on the perceptions of the actors rather than on the fact of having suffered it ...