The stochastic nature of political and social processes determines economic development of the world’s poorest continent, Africa! History plays a fundamental role in all these interactions! I was either unfortunate or fortunate not to have studied history, not because it was a very difficult subject for me since I was the best in my senior […]

Delving into this area is often a nightmare because little has been done even by the national statistical offices in Africa. It is a bear truth that national statistical offices have the duty of collecting and safeguarding all the data in a given country, but even a simple survey shows that none of them currently […]

The just concluded international conference on climate governance in Berlin, Germany, held on the 15th June, 2010, organized by Inwent and Transparent International attempted to discuss the key issues of knowledge & information access, equity and the economy in addressing climate change. However, the common denominator seemingly emerged as failure to define equity! Does equity […]

In the previous posting, we made an attempt to understand what statistics is all about. Thanks for the compliments from all readers especially about the article ‘statistics aren’t just figures’, may God bless you to read even more!
Let’s make an attempt to define statistics without reservations. Statistics is all encompassing and therefore, it […]

Generation of probabilities for different scenarios, where scenarios are elections in different states has been and is still a point of contention for the DP primaries in the search algorithm for the US president in 2008. Each day that goes by Obama and Clinton hope to maximize the electral votes in those candidate […]

I haven’t been lost, but just out here in the field collecting data for this damn PhD research. The good news is that I have been cleared to collect all the data I need for my research by the management of civil aviation authority, but still going through the bureaucracies and i do hope that […]

Generally, stochastic (pronounced stow-KAS-tik, from the Greek stochastikos, or “skilled at aiming,” since stochos is a target) describes an approach to anything that is based on probability or chance occurrence. In science, a stochastic approach is one in which values are obtained from a corresponding sequence of jointly distributed random variables.
Classic examples of the stochastic […]

I take this opportunity to welcome you to this website… The purpose of this website mainly is to be used as a plate form for sharing the unending knowledge. I am sure you know you can do a lot, but not much alone. So I look forward to an exciting moment. Besides, sharing knowledge, we […]