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This dissertation develops a first-order multivariate Poisson integer-valued autoregressive (MPINAR(1)) model to improve disease outbreak detection in public health surveillance systems. The MPINAR(1) model is proposed as a computationally tractable alternative to the general multivariate...

This dissertation develops a negative binomial integer-valued generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic model of order p, q (negative binomial INGARCH(p, q)) for overdispersed count time series data with potential extreme values. The model is formulated such that its conditional...

This study aims to obtain a lower bound on the eigenvalue of the smallest modulus in a general weighted regular Sturm-Liouville problem with mixed boundary conditions. The problem is expressed as -u′′(x) + q(x)u(x) = λr(x)u(x) over the interval [a,b] with u′(a) = u(b) = 0. In 1988 Mingarelli [31]...

The COVID-19 epidemic in Zambia has had significant social and economic impact on the health sector and wellbeing of the population. Hence it is vital to investigate the effect of various Interventions that were implemented to control the spread of the pandemic. Non-pharmaceutical interventions...

This study aimed to determine the maximum likelihood (ML) estimates for the Gamma and Exponential distributions under conditions of left-truncated and right-censored data, employing the Expectation-Maximisation (EM) algorithm. Additionally, it sought to compare the performance of the EM algorithm...

In this dissertation we obtain quasi-deformations of the special linear Lie algebra of degree 2 over a eld F, abbreviated sl2(F). We take F to be a eld of characteristic zero. Our approach involves obtaining and deforming a linear operator representation of sl2(F) using-twisted derivations (with...

In this thesis, we recall three types of convexities in metric spaces, namely; Menger convexity, Takahashi convexity andM-convexity. We then generalise these convexities to the framework of T0-quasi-metric spaces. Since the concept of convexities heavily relies on the concept of betweenness, a...

The concept of hyperconvexity in metric spaces was introduced by Aronszajn and Panichpakdi in 1956. This concept was then generalised to the framework of quasi-metric spaces by John Isbell in 1964, which he called Isbell convexity. In 2019, Yi git and Efe generalised this concept of...

A commutatively ordered Banach algebra (COBA) is a complex unital Banach algebra A containing a subset C, called an algebra c-cone, such that C contains the unit of A and is closed under addition, positive scalar multiplication and multiplication by commuting positive elements. If the...

In this dissertation, we examine the small and large sample properties of the U-statistics (Un) for an estimable parameter : For small sample, Un is found to be MVUE and Su cient. Large sample properties of Un examined are Consistency and Asymptotic normality. We also compare the rate of...