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Water Filter Provision and Home-Based Filter Reinforcement Reduce Diarrhea in Kenyan HIV-Infected Adults and Their Household Members
(The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2014)Among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -infected adults and children in Africa, diarrheal disease remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. We evaluated the effectiveness of provision and home-based reinforcement ... -
Adverse information on social media will always send Kenyans to withdraw their money
(2016-04)In the paper “The Extent to Which Social Media Can Influence a Bank Run” Atieno,T. and Mutinda, M. (2014) provided empirical evidence that there was a huge risk of a bank run occurring in Kenya due to social media. This ... -
A Phase transition in the distribution of the length of integer partitions
We assign a uniform probability to the set consisting of partitions of a positive integer n such that the multiplicity of each summand is less than a given number d and we study the limiting distribution of the number of ... -
Surprising applications and possible extensions of Dellsarte's method
This is a short informal survey on some surprising applications of Delsarte's method, written for anyone being interested. I try to keep it as short and as informative as possible -
A Bayesian hierarchical model for correlation in microarray studies
Microarrays are miniaturised biological devices consisting of molecules (e.g. DNA or protein), called \probes", that are orderly arranged at a microscopic scale onto a solid support such as a nylon membrane or a glass ... -
Conditional CAPM in financial risk management: a quantile autoregression approach
The study aims to provide a comprehensive description of dependence pattern of a stock by studying a range of betas derived as quantiles of conditional return distribution using quantile regression based on moving window ... -
Extending genstat capability to analyze rainfall data using Markov chain model
Rainfall is of critical importance for many people particularly those whose livelihoods are dependent on rain fed agriculture. Methods of analysis of daily rainfall records based on Markov chain models have been available ... -
Devolution and nation building
One of the key reforms of the constitution is the establishment of devolution through the country’s government. It is in the current constitution and will only come into effect after the next general elections, when the ...
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