Tuberculosis is an infectious disease which can be fatal. Hence, availability of models predicting its potential outbreak can be very useful in its preventative strategies. This paper finds the best mathematical model which fits onto the tuberculosis occurrence data of Ashanti Re...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/5571
In this paper, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model is used to predict the prevalence and incidence of measles in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and the Mean Squared Error (MSE) are used to compare the in-sample forecasting performanc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/2182
Our study focused on identifying factors underlining the deteriorating health condition of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the New Juaben Municipality. After a review of the relevant literature, the following hypotheses were developed: the attitude of PLWHA to antiretrovir...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMPS/2015/13809