African Evaluation Database

9120 records found

Source	Electronic ID	Title	Authors	Publication Year	Source Title	Volume	Issue	DOI	Affiliations	Authors with Affiliations	Abstract	Author Keywords	Index Keywords	Funding Details
Scopus	2-s2.0-79953007457	Upper body muscle strength and batting performance in cricket batsmen	Taliep M.S., Prim S.K., Gray J.	2010	Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research	24	12	10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181e7261b	Department of Sports Management, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa...	Taliep, M.S., Department of Sports Management, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town...	The aim of this study was to determine if upper body muscle strength (as measured by the 1 repeti...	Elite; Fitness; Power; Skill; Training	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84878959307	Integrated value function construction with application to impact assessments	Stewart T.J., Janssen R.	2013	International Transactions in Operational Research	20	4	10.1111/itor.12016	Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa; Insti...	Stewart, T.J., Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, Sout...	In this article, an integrated structure is provided for processing various forms of imprecise pr...	Environment; Multiple criteria decision analysis	Decision making process; Environment; Impact assessments; Integrated structure; Multiple criteria...	National Research Foundation of South Africa	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84936849828	Predicting the impact of border control on malaria transmission: a simulated focal screen and tre...	Silal S.P., Little F., Barnes K.I., White L.J.	2015	Malaria Journal	14	1	10.1186/s12936-015-0776-2	Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa;...	Silal, S.P., Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, ...	Background: South Africa is one of many countries committed to malaria elimination with a target ...	Elimination; Focal screen and treat; Imported infections; Malaria	Article; controlled study; diagnostic procedure; infection control; malaria control; mathematical...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84866016107	Management and evaluation of technological capability in ICT firms: An information system approach	Aderemi H.O., Oyebisi T.O.	2012	International Journal of Business Information Systems	11	2	10.1504/IJBIS.2012.048887	Department of Technology Innovation and Enterprise Studies, National Centre for Technology Manage...	Aderemi, H.O., Department of Technology Innovation and Enterprise Studies, National Centre for Te...	Technological capability (TC) is the key assets and resources that enable a country and its enter...	Business; Evaluation; Firms; ICT; Information and communications technology; Management; Software...	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-57849090614	Evaluating performances at the 2007 cricket world cup	Barr G.D.I., Holdsworth C.G., Kantor B.S.	2008	South African Statistical Journal	42	2	None	Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town; Investec Securities, Cape Town, Sout...	Barr, G.D.I., Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town; Holdsworth, C.G., Depa...	In this paper we apply the methodology of Barr and Kantor (Barr & Kantor, 2003) to evaluate the b...	Cricket world cup 2007; Selection criterion; Strike rate	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84867268974	Measuring the performance of South African equity investment managers using portfolio opportunity...	van Heerden J.D., Botha A.F.	2012	Investment Analysts Journal	76	1	None	Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciene, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch 7650, Sou...	van Heerden, J.D., Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciene, University of Stellenbosch, Ste...	Market indices and peer group comparison are the most commonly used proxies to measure a portfoli...	None	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84873927521	Burn-in and the performance quality measures in continuous heterogeneous populations	Cha J.H., Finkelstein M.	2012	Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability	226	4	10.1177/1748006X12443217	Department of Statistics, Ewha Womans University, 11-1 Deehyun-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750,...	Cha, J.H., Department of Statistics, Ewha Womans University, 11-1 Deehyun-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seo...	Burn-in is a method used to eliminate initial failures in field use. To burn-in a component or sy...	burn-in; heterogeneous population; performance quality measures; Reliability; stochastically orde...	Burn-in; Conventional approach; Failure rate functions; Heterogeneous populations; In-field; Init...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-78650416758	Burn-in and the performance quality measures in heterogeneous populations	Cha J.H., Finkelstein M.	2011	European Journal of Operational Research	210	2	10.1016/j.ejor.2010.09.019	Department of Statistics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, South Korea; Department of Mathe...	Cha, J.H., Department of Statistics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, South Korea; Finkelst...	Burn-in is a widely used engineering method of elimination of defective items before they are shi...	Burn-in; Heterogeneous population; Performance quality measures; Reliability; Stochastically orde...	Bathtub shaped failure rate; Burn-in; Conventional approach; Defective items; Engineering methods...	None	View
None	None	The impact of time use differentials on poverty levels in the Eastern and Northern Zones of Tanzania	Akarro R.	2008	European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Sciences	None	13	None	Department of Statistics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam - Tanz...	Akarro, R., Department of Statistics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dar es S...	Development is positively correlated with poverty. People who are poor are generally less develop...	Development; Gender; Poverty index; Principal component analysis; Time use	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84927160851	The performance of serial correlation preliminary test estimators under asymmetry loss functions	Nakale S.N., Kleyn J., Arashi M., Bekker A.	2015	South African Statistical Journal	49	1	None	Department of Statistics, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, P...	Nakale, S.N., Department of Statistics, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University ...	The risk performances, under the symmetric squared error loss function, of the estimators of the ...	BLINEX loss; LINEX loss; Preliminary test estimation; Risk function.; Serial correlation	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-77956319397	The effect of social factors on students' academic performance in Nigerian tertiary institutions	Umar S.S., Shaib I.O., Aituisi D.N., Yakubu N.A., Bada O.	2010	Library Philosophy and Practice	2010	MAR	None	Department of Statistics, Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Nigeria; Department of Computer Science, Fe...	Umar, S.S., Department of Statistics, Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Nigeria; Shaib, I.O., Departmen...	[No abstract available]	None	None	None	View
None	None	Culture and its impact on the education of the Maasai and the coastal women of Tanzania	Akarro R.R.J.	2008	European Journal of Social Sciences	6	3	None	Department of Statistics, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Akarro, R.R.J., Department of Statistics, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	The percentage of educated women vs that of men in Tanzania and indeed in the whole of sub Sahara...	Circumcision; Coastal women; Education; Maasai; Marriage; Menarche; Tribal culture	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-53749100545	Performance of the estimators of linear regression model with autocorrelated error terms which ar...	Olaomi J.O.	2008	European Journal of Scientific Research	20	1	None	Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria	Olaomi, J.O., Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria	Assumptions in the classical normal linear regression model include that of lack of autocorrelati...	Autocorrelated error terms; Correlation; Estimators; Geometric trended regressor; Monte-Carlo exp...	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-37349024327	On the estimation and performance of subset autoregressive moving average models	Ojo J.F.	2007	European Journal of Scientific Research	18	4	None	Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria	Ojo, J.F., Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria	Full autoregressive moving average model are always characterize by many parameters and this is a...	Full autoregressive moving average model; Model estimation; Order determination criterion; Subset...	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-53749100085	Comparative performance of the limited information techniques in a two-equation structural model	Adepoju A.A.	2008	European Journal of Scientific Research	20	1	None	Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria	Adepoju, A.A., Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria	The samples with which we deal in practice are rather small, seldom exceeding 80 observations and...	Estimator; Identification; Monte Carlo; Mutual correlation; Random deviates	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-65249186432	On the estimation and performance of subset autoregressive integrated moving average models	Ojo J.F., Olatayo T.O.	2009	European Journal of Scientific Research	28	2	None	Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; Department of Mathematical Scien...	Ojo, J.F., Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; Olatayo, T.O., Depart...	Significant effort have been made in the study of the theory of subset autoregressive models and ...	Akaike information criterion; Bayesian information criterion and residual variance; Marquardt alg...	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-67649876364	Measuring forecast performance of ARMA and ARFIMA models: An application to US Dollar/UK Pound fo...	Shittu O.I., Yaya O.S.	2009	European Journal of Scientific Research	32	2	None	Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria	Shittu, O.I., Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Yaya, O.S., Department of ...	The classical approach to modelling economic series is to apply the Box - Jenkins approach of ARM...	Exchange rate; Forecasting; Fractional integration; Long memory; Nonlinearity	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84865279535	Evaluation of small sample estimators of outliers infested simultaneous equation model: A monte c...	Adepoju A.A., Olaomi J.O.	2012	Journal of Applied Economic Sciences	7	1	None	Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Department of Statistics, University of ...	Adepoju, A.A., Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Olaomi, J.O., Department ...	In practice, data collected in a broad range of applications frequently contain one or more atypi...	Autoregressive error terms; Outlier; Simultaneous equations; Small sample	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-44649178916	Measures of batting performance in a short series of cricket matches	Lemmer H.H.	2008	South African Statistical Journal	42	1	None	Department of Statistics, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, 2006, Johannesburg, South Af...	Lemmer, H.H., Department of Statistics, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, 2006, Johannes...	The traditional average is not a satisfactory measure of batting performance if a batsman has man...	Batting average; Cricket; Not-out scores	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-81155150391	The single match approach to strike rate adjustments in batting performance measures in cricket	Lemmer H.H.	2011	Journal of Sports Science and Medicine	10	4	None	Department of Statistics, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa	Lemmer, H.H., Department of Statistics, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa	Batting performance measures containing strike rate adjustments take into account the important f...	Batting average; Indian premier league; Ratings; Sports	None	None	View

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