Statistics Research Papers/Topics

The Effect of Government Expenditure in Agricultural Output in Uganda. A Case Study at and a Coffee Development Authority (Ucda)

Abstract This study examined the effect of Government expenditure on coffee output and productivity in Uganda over the period 2005-2015 with time series data collected from Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and Bank of Uganda (BOU). The present study applied ADF Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique as an analytical tool to analyze the data. The results of significance testing showed that there exists a long-run relationship among Government expend...

Real Exchange Rate, Inflation Rate and Private Investments in Uganda (1990-2014)

ABSTRACT  The main objective of the study is to examine the impact of real exchange rate and inflation on private investments in Uganda. The two objectives were to determine the effect of real exchange rate on private investment; to determine the effect of inflation rate on private investment. The study used Real exchange rate, Inflation rate, Bank credit, Foreign direct investment, Public investment and trade as the determinants of private investment using secondary data for a period of 199...

Effects of Boarding Students’ Living Conditions On Their Academic Performance in Secondary Schools: A Case of Masindi Central Division, Masindi Municipality.

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to assess the living conditions associated with the academic performance of boarding students in secondary schools in central Division, Masindi Municipality. The assessment was made by the characteristics of the students, living conditions in which feeding, sanitation and accommodation were investigated. Using primary data based on the sample of 180 boarding students from Masindi SS, Ikoba girls’, Jordan Pride SS and Masindi academy SS where data wa...

Accidents and Mortality Rates in Kampala, Uganda

ABSTRACT The study was about the relationship between accidents and mortality rate. The objectives of the study were:-To establish the level of accidents in Uganda, to determine the level of mortality rate in Uganda, to establish the relationship between accidents and mortality rate in Uganda. The study found that there was a weak relationship between accidents and mortality rates and the mortality rates largely depended on the other factors. Among the causes of accidents, human behavior was...

Attitude, Subjective Norm and Self-Belief as Correlates to Performance in Mathematics. A Study of Students of Freeway High School

ABSTRACT There has been a growing interest in research investigating various issues of students’ mathematics performance. Following the theory of planned behaviour and the Self—efficacy theory, this study aimed at determining the effect of attitudes, subjective norms, and Sd labellers on the mathematics performance of students in secondary schools. The study involved 75-I X() respondents who were randomly selected. Questionnaires were used to collect the data. Data going and entry were c...

Face Recognition Under Angular Constraint Using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Principal Component Analysis with Singular Value Decomposition

ABSTRACT The complexity of a face’s components originates from the incessant variations in the facial component that occur with respect to time. Notwithstanding of these variations, humans recognise a person very easily using physical characteristics such as faces, voice, gait, etc. In human interactions, the articulation and perception of constraints; like head-poses, facial expression form a communication channel that is additional to voice and that carries crucial information about ment...

Comparative Study of the House Rent a Case Study of Gw Agw Alada and Kw Ali Area Councils

CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study Housing is one of the 3 most significant in the sustainability of human existence with considerable economic, social, cultural and personal importance. The production of housing has been influenced largely by policies, innovation and the ability to sustain the environment. Housing in today's parlance has become amulet-dimensional bundle of services, encompassing the need for privacy, aesthetic value, and conformity to statutory stand...

A Proposed Method for Classification; An Application to Forecasting Students’ Qualification for Admission into First Degree Programs in Ghanaian Universities

ABSTRACT This study proposes a method for classification based on a Pattern Trace Network and Principal Component Analysis. Using data from a public Senior High School, the proposed method was applied to forecast whether or not a Senior High School (SHS) student would qualify for admission into the university. The method’s performance and the performance of Logistic Regression were compared. The independent variables used in the study are gender, boarding status, program of study, and cont...

Factor Analysis of Customer Preference for Mobile Phone Network (A Case Study of Cape Coast Polytechnic)

ABSTRACT This research tries to determine the “hidden” factors which ultimately influence the choice of mobile phone network in Cape Coast Polytechnic (study area). Principal Component method of Factor analysis is used to achieve the set objectives. There are six mobile phone network providers (MTN, Vodafone, Tigo, Airtel, Globacom and Expresso) in Ghana. All these operators try to improve their marketing strategies in order to attract more customers or subscribers to increase their mark...

Modeling And Forecasting CAD to Naira Exchange Rate

ABSTRACT The economy of any nation is greatly dependent on the level and stability of its exchange rate, with our nation’s (Nigeria) dwindling exchange rate, exploring the trend and pattern of our exchange rate is very needful. A secondary data on monthly exchange rates from 2010 to 2020 was obtained from ExchangeRate UK was analyzed using the Box-Jenkins (ARIMA) methodology. The series was first-order differenced in order to achieve series stationarity. The results showed that ARIMA(0,1,1...

Time Series Analysis on Marriage Registration in Ilorin, Kwara State (2000-2011) (A Case Study of Marriage, Registry of Social Welfare, Ilorin)

ABSTRACT The study examined time series analysis on marriage registration in Ilorin, Kwara State between (2000 – 2011). The data used was collected from marriage registry, ministry of social welfare, Ilorin, Kwara State. Moving average, simple linear regression was used for the analysis. The result on trend value clearly show that, there is a steady decrease in the number of marriage from second half of the year 2002 up to January 2003, and from there, there was a shape increase in the numb...

Time Series Analysis on Consumption of Electricity in Kwara State, A Case Study Of a NEPA District Office From 2001-2015

Time Series Analysis on Consumption of Electricity in Kwara State,  A Case Study Of a NEPA District Office From 2001-2015TABLE OF CONTENTCOVER PAGEAPPROVAL PAGEDEDICATIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTTABLE OF CONTENT 1.1           INTRODUCTION 1.2           BACKGROUND AND ITS OPERATION 1.3           SIGNIFICANCE 1.4           SCOPE OF STUDY 1.5           AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1.6           PROBLEMS AND LIMITATION OF STUDY 1.7           ...

Statistical Analysis of Motor Cycle Registration in Kwara State Between (2003-2011) (A Case Study of Central Motor Registry Under Board of Internal Revenue Ilorin)

TABLE OF CONTENTS Title page Certification Dedication Acknowledgement Abstract CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1    Preamble 1.2    Significance 1.3    Aims and Objectives of the study 1.4    Scope of the study 1.5    Limitation of the study CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1    Literature Review 2.2    Role of central motor registry in generating Revenues of state government.  2.3    Sources of data CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1    Regressi...

The Effecs Of Stock Control! Stocktaking On Stock Management A Case Study Of Tropical Supermarket Naguru

The purpose of the study was to analyze the effects of stock control on inventory in business organizations, basing on the following objectives; to find out reasons of stock imbalances during stocktaldng to determine ways of minimizing inventory costs, and to provide practical procedures that can enable business implementation and improvement of their stock management. The descriptive aspect of the research design was used to establish the company performance in relation to its stock manageme...

Wages And Labour Productivity at HR And Management Agency

ABSTRACT  The study was conducted as a requirement for the partial fulfillment for the award of Bachelors of Economics and Applied Statistics at Kampala international University. The study was aimed at analyzing wages and labor productivity at HR and Management Agency in time. The literature review shows the level of productivity, measurement of productivity, different theories explaining wage effect just to mention a few. The study used secondary data from the organization for the analysis....


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