ABSTRACT The study looks at identification of outstanding and abysmal performances of students in examinations involving seven common subjects taken in the first year at Ghana Senior High School in Koforidua. The scores of the students, who were grouped into six different program classes, in the seven subjects constituted the data for the study. In order to achieve the objective of the study using this high dimensional data set, a multivariate data analysis technique (the Principal Componen...
ABSTRACT The Bayesian approach conveys information not available in the data but on prior knowledge of the subject matter, which enables one to make probability statements about the parameters of interest, while the classical approaches deals solely with the data. Several researches on the classical approaches have shown them to be sensitive to multicollinearity, a violation of one of the assumptions of multi-equation models which often plagues economic variables. Studies on the performance ...
ABSTRACT This study is about diseases reported at the outpatient departments (OPD) in the Greater Accra Region. The objectives of this study was to find the trend of the various diseases reported at the Outpatient Departments, forecast 2007 reported diseases and finally, to identify the most reported disease(s) within the period. Data was obtained from the Adabraka Polyclinic which is the coordinating center for the region's health statistics. The data covered the period 1996 to 2006. Trend ...
ABSTRACT The study was to determine beneficiary community members’ expectation of the benefits of social development projects in Education Rights, Gender and Women’s Rights and Food Rights. Sixteen criteria were gotten, initially, using participatory rural appraisal. These were included in the basic information section of a questionnaire. The questionnaire also sought classification and identification information of respondents. It was administered to one hundred respondents selected thr...
ABSTRACT This dissertation is a report on efforts directed at finding the leading diseases, patterns and other characteristics of four kinds of data: Monthly Outpatient Morbidity Data, Statement Of Outpatients, Statement Of Inpatients and the Monthly Bed State Data of Kwesimintsim Polyclinic. The data spans the six-year period of 1997 to 2002. The analysis of the data relied on descriptive statistics and time series analysis. Projected values ofthe number of cases of the diseases to be repor...
ABSTRACT The application of foreign life table in Sub-Sahara Africa had been a major concern all over the world. However, assessing the error for applying the foreign life tables as well as analysing the impact of the leading causes of death on Ghanaian longevity had not been studied. This study aimed at assessing the error of applying Foreign Life Tables in Ghana and analysing the impacts of the leading causes of death in Ghana. A cohort data of 3260 were collected from the University of Gha...
ABSTRACT The objective of this study has been to determine the major underlying factors that influence the choice of senior high schools. To this end, a survey of 510 BECE candidates in Junior High Schools in Nungua, a community in Accra, was conducted. The students were asked to indicate their opinions on twenty seven variables on a five-point Likert scale. The data generated from the survey were multivariate in structure since 27 variables were recorded on 510 respondents. Factor analysis, ...
ABSTRACT In this dissertation, Markov chain was used to model the rainfall pattern and sunshine duration for three regional capitals in Ghana (Tamale, Kumasi and Accra). Data on mean monthly averages and daily figures of measured parameters (sunshine duration and rainfall) for five years were used. To achieve these goals, a statistical basis was presented before adopting the three main approaches for modeling. Transition Matrix shows the short-run behavior of Markov chain; the steady-state pr...
ABSTRACT This study compares the performances of ARIMA, ARCH, GARCH, EGARCH and GJR-GARCH on their abilities in modelling and forecasting the volatility of world cocoa bean prices on the London Intercontinental Futures Exchange using weekly averages of prices in Great Britain Pounds from January 1985 through December 2017. It seeks to ascertain whether a model that provides a good in-sample fit necessarily provide the best out-of-sample forecast, in the midst of other models. A number...
ABSTRACT This study is concerned with the evaluation of the price levels of food items in various markets across Ghana. The objective was to determine the main dimensions along which to identify specific markets in which items are high-priced and those that are low-priced. To this end, data on prices in 2008 of fifteen food items in 100 selected markets from all the regions of the country were obtained from the Statistical, Research and Information Directorate of the Ministry of Food and Agri...
ABSTRACT Rainfall and temperature are important climatic factors for crop production and affects humans’ basic needs such as health, shelter, food and water in Ghana. However extreme rainfall causes flooding which can lead to loss of lives, properties among others. Extreme temperature also causes drought, hot and cold spells among others which have adverse implications on human beings and agriculture. It is therefore important to know about occurrences of such extreme events and thei...
ABSTRACT Choice of university education in Ghana is a competitive exercise for senior High School students. Choosing it requires consideration of various factors. The motivation for the study is to measure high school students’ perception of the University of Cape Coast. To this end, the study focuses on various factors. The objective of the study therefore is to determine the latent factors that are considered by the...
ABSTRACT The poor are not evenly distributed within the country and they do not share the same socio-economic and demographic characteristics. It is against this background that analysis of the characteristics that differentiate the poor from the non-poor in Ghana cannot be underestimated. Poverty indicators make it possible to analyze the likely determinants and are, therefore, essential for formulating policy interventions that may contribute directly or ...
This paper analyzes factor analysis, discussing both confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA), as they relate to survey design. Shi et al. (2017) is discussed and compared to another study applying factor analysis by Tungkunanan (2020). A discussion of how factor analysis is used in my current field and potentially for COVID research is also explored. First, however, a discussion of the history of factor analysis, how it was designed, improved, and is currently...
This paper discusses and analyzes the procedures of hypothesis testing, benefits, and detriments.