It is incredible, but true at 0.01 level of significance. I was invited to present a paper at an International conference in Yokohama, Japan between the 5th to 8th December, 2008. Click to visit the conference website. The workshop was organized by the International Association of Statistical Computing, IASC, an association to which I belong. […]

The South African Statistical Association organized a successful international conference from 27th to 31st of October, 2008. The conference was held at the University of Pretoria in Pretoria formally a white-biased university. Many internationally known statisticians all over the globe showcased their work in statistics by presenting papers. I happened to present a paper titled […]

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 […]

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 […]

Information communication technology is the key to agricultural development if developing countries are to optimize agricultural management. Many systems have been developed that collect vast amount of vital electronic data, perform data analysis and disseminate information. However, due to limited accessibility to these ICTs, developing counties still lag behind in exploiting technologies for timely decision […]

Of course stochastic programming is an aspect of statistics, but let us attempt to examine the influence of statistics on measuring Democracy, Governance and Human Rights from a participant’s perspective.
 
The magnitude of statistics should not be limited by only what is taught in class, rather there is a great need to attempt looking outside the […]