Archive for July, 2008

1st Africa conference of young statisticians, wayforward

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Presenting a total of 110 quality statistics based papers at the 1st Africa young statisticians conference at Pretoria, South Africa’s capital city in only three days conveyed a million messages in the world of academia. “I am amazed” was the first statement the ISI president, Prof. Denise A. Lievesley said during her opening remarks. The [...]

multinomial logistic model for monitoring MDGs

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are UN millennium declaration of September 2000 as a way to monitor progress in the developing countries in the eight key MDGs. Uganda, is signatory to the UN, hence one of the countries where MDGs are being assessed. However, despite the close to 17 years since its inception, MDGs are little [...]