Advanced techniques for modelling maternal and child health in Africa [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Gebrenegus Ghilagaber |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 613.0432096 |
Collana | The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis |
Soggetto topico |
Demography
Maternal and child health services Statistics Social sciences Maternal and Child Health Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences Methodology of the Social Sciences |
ISBN | 94-007-6778-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1: Advanced Techniques for Modelling Maternal and Child Health in Africa: Samuel OM Manda, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala and Gebrenegus Ghilagaber -- PART I: CHILD HEALTH AND SURVIVAL: 2: Disentangling Selection and Causality in Assessing the Effects of Health Inputs on Child Survival. Case Studies from Egypt, Eritrea, and Uganda: Gebrenegus Ghilagaber -- 3: Modelling Spatial Effects on Childhood Mortality via Geo-Additive Bayesian Discrete-time Survival Model: A Case Study from Nigeria: G Ghilagaber, D Antai and N-B Kandala -- 4: Bayesian Geo-additive Mixed Latent Variable Models with Applications on the Child's Health problems in some African Countries: K Khatab -- 5: Mapping socio-economic inequalities in health status in Malawian children: a Bayesian approach: L Kazembe -- 6: Analysis of Grouped Survival Data: A Synthesis of Various Traditions and Application to Modeling Childhood Mortality in Eritrea: G Ghilagaber -- 7: Modelling Immunisation Coverage in Nigeria using Bayesian Structured Additive Regression: SB Adebayo and WB Yahya -- 8: Macro Determinants of Geographical Variation in Childhood Survival in South Africa using Flexible Spatial Mixture Models: S Manda -- 9: Socio-demographic determinants of Anaemia in children in Uganda : A multilevel analysis: SN Kandala -- PART II: MATERNAL HEALTH: 10: A Family of Flexible Parametric Duration Functions with Applications to Modelling Transition to Parenthood in Eritrea, Ghana, and Kenya: G Ghilagaber, W Elisa, and S O Gyimah -- 11: Spatial variation of predictors of prevalent hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africa: A case study of South-Africa: N-B Kandala -- 12: A Semiparametric Stratified Survival Model for Timing of First Birth in South Africa: S Manda, R Meyer and B Cai -- 13: Stepwise Geoadditive Regression modelling of levels and trends of fertility in Nigeria: Guiding tools towards attaining MDGs: SB Adebayo and E Gayawan -- 14: A Spatial Analysis of Age at Sexual Initiation among Nigerian Youth as a Tool for HIV Prevention: A Bayesian Approach: AA Abiodun et al -- 15: Assessing Geographic Co-morbidity Associated with Vascular Diseases in South Africa: A joint Bayesian Modeling Approach: NB Kandala, SOM Manda, W Tigbe -- 16: Advances in Modelling Maternal and Child Health in Africa: What Have We Learned and What is Next?: Gebrenegus Ghilagaber. . |
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Robust nonlinear regression : with applications using R / / Hossein Riazoshams, Habshah Midi and Gebrenegus Ghilagaber |
Autore | Riazoshams Hossein <1971-> |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
Disciplina | 519.502855133 |
Soggetto topico |
Nonlinear theories
R (Computer program language) Regression analysis |
ISBN |
1-119-01044-6
1-119-01045-4 1-119-01046-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Robust statistics -- Nonlinear models -- Robust estimators in nonlinear regression -- Heteroscedastic variance -- Authocorrelated errors -- Outlier detection in nonlinear regression -- Optimization -- Nlr package -- Robust nonlinear regression in R. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910555169903321 |
Riazoshams Hossein <1971-> | ||
Hoboken, NJ : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2019] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Robust nonlinear regression : with applications using R / / Hossein Riazoshams, Habshah Midi and Gebrenegus Ghilagaber |
Autore | Riazoshams Hossein <1971-> |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
Disciplina | 519.502855133 |
Soggetto topico |
Nonlinear theories
R (Computer program language) Regression analysis |
ISBN |
1-119-01044-6
1-119-01045-4 1-119-01046-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Robust statistics -- Nonlinear models -- Robust estimators in nonlinear regression -- Heteroscedastic variance -- Authocorrelated errors -- Outlier detection in nonlinear regression -- Optimization -- Nlr package -- Robust nonlinear regression in R. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830754003321 |
Riazoshams Hossein <1971-> | ||
Hoboken, NJ : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2019] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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