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Volume 6, Issue 3, June 2018

Binary Logistic Regression Analysis of Identifying Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Factors that Affect Fertility Among Women of Child bearing Age in Ethiopia

Desalegn Dargaso Dana

Issue: Volume 6, Issue 3, June 2018

Pages: 65-73

Received: 26 March 2018

Accepted: 12 April 2018

Published: 1 June 2018

DOI: 10.11648/j.sjams.20180603.11

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Abstract: Fertility is one of the elements in population dynamics that has a significant contribution towards changing population size and structure overtime. The aim of objective of this study is to identify Demographic, Socio-economic, and Cultural factors that affect Fertility level among women of childbearing age in Ethiopia. The data for this study were... Show More

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Computer Simulation-Based Designs for Industrial Engineering Experiments

Dongyu Zhou, Weihua Guo, Hengzhen Huang

Issue: Volume 6, Issue 3, June 2018

Pages: 74-80

Received: 27 April 2018

Accepted: 19 May 2018

Published: 7 June 2018

DOI: 10.11648/j.sjams.20180603.12

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Abstract: Computer simulations have been receiving a lot of attention in industrial engineering as the rapid growth in computer power and numerical techniques. In contrast to physical experiments which are usually carried out in factories, laboratories or fields, computer simulations can save considerable time and cost. From the statistical perspective, the ... Show More

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The Mutual Nearest Neighbor Method in Functional Nonparametric Regression

Xingyu Chen, Dirong Chen

Issue: Volume 6, Issue 3, June 2018

Pages: 81-89

Received: 18 July 2018

Published: 19 July 2018

DOI: 10.11648/j.sjams.20180603.13

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Abstract: In recent decades, functional data have become a commonly encountered type of data. Its ideal units of observation are functions defined on some continuous domain and the observed data are sampled on a discrete grid. An important problem in functional data analysis is how to fit regression models with scalar responses and functional predictors (sca... Show More

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Determination of Optimal Public Debt Ceiling for Kenya Using Stochastic Control

Millicent Kithinji, Lucy Muthoni

Issue: Volume 6, Issue 3, June 2018

Pages: 90-98

Received: 13 May 2018

Accepted: 19 June 2018

Published: 23 July 2018

DOI: 10.11648/j.sjams.20180603.14

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Abstract: Public debt is a key economic variable. It is the totality of public and publicly guaranteed debt owed by any level of government to either citizens or foreigners or both. Due to recent debt crises in countries such as Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain, debt control has become a key important fiscal policy of every government. In this stud... Show More

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Application of Factor Analysis in the Assessment of Solid Waste Management in Bolgatanga Municipality of Ghana

Edward Akurugu, Abdul-Majeed Issahaku, Abdul-Samed Aliou

Issue: Volume 6, Issue 3, June 2018

Pages: 99-109

Received: 27 June 2018

Accepted: 9 July 2018

Published: 6 August 2018

DOI: 10.11648/j.sjams.20180603.15

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Abstract: The issue of waste management has become a daunting challenge for many countries particularly for developing countries. The adverse effects of waste on human lives and the environment have reached scary levels that call for a thorough assessment of waste management systems across the globe and in particular developing countries. In Bolgatanga munic... Show More

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