Tax revenue forecasting is of critical importance for a government in ensuring adequacy and stability in tax and expenditure policies, as it also contributes to the budget and strategic planning of a country. Henceforth, several tax types need to be projected for the specific fiscal year using...
Download PDF ↓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...
Download PDF ↓Breast cancer (BC) has become a public health problem world-wide due to its high mortality rate among women in both developed and developing countries. Numerous studies have been conducted to determine prognostic factors for breast cancer mortality and projection of mortality in developed...
Download PDF ↓Agricultural drought conditions driven by delayed onset of the rainy season is one of the main contributing factors to Acute Food Insecurity (AFI). A number of studies on AFI severity in Zambia have been done at national level but no assessment of severity of AFI at district level has been done....
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