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    • Envisioning Change in the Statistics-Education Climate. 

      David Stern, Roger Stern, Danny Parsons, James Musyoka, Francis Torgbor, Zach Mbasu (2020-02-01)
      The African Data Initiative started as a crowd-sourced campaign to improve the teaching of statistics in African universities. The analysis of climate data provides one suitable context to illustrate ideas that lead to ...
    • Envisioning Change in the Statistics-Education Climate. 

      David Stern, Roger Stern, Danny Parsons, James Musyoka, Francis Torgbor, Zach Mbasu (2020-02-01)
      The African Data Initiative started as a crowd-sourced campaign to improve the teaching of statistics in African universities. The analysis of climate data provides one suitable context to illustrate ideas that lead to a ...
    • Exploring the Role of Extra Curricula Maths Camps and Clubs in Kenya and Beyond 

      Emily Fleming, Zachariah Mbasu, David Stern, Danny Parsons, Mildred Ayere, Franca Hoffmann, James Musyoka, Thomas Mawora, Chris Clarke, Santiago Borio, Michael Obiero (2015)
      For the last four years Maseno University, Kenya, has been running a maths camp bringing together both international and local, lecturers and teachers to engage secondary students in the subject through puzzles, games, ...
    • Influence of Entrepreneur and Firm Characteristics in Accessing Bank finance 

      Kili Muhindi Rop, Edgar Ouko Otumba,Peter Kibas and Bernard Kibeti Nassiuma (Stratford peer reviewed journal and book publishing, 2021)
      SMEs are mostly guided by the owners’ characteristics which is an indicator of the level of decisions taken in the firm. Access to credit is a prerequisite for a high performance of an SME. The paper aimed at establishing ...
    • Models for Variable Premiums Payable to Benevolent Funds 

      Chora Damary Rehema, Fredrick Onyango, Joshua Were (Hikari Ltd., 2020)
      he application of multiple life actuarial calculations have been studied by many authours for instance Elizondo [5] studied the construction of multiple decrement models from associated single decrement experiences. He ...
    • Modernizing pension fund contribution 

      Calvine Odiwuor, Were Joshua (American Journal of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences(AJP), 2021)
      The purpose of this research is to develop a pension model which uses mobile phone technology to facilitate contribution towards the user’s pension scheme.
    • OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR STATISTICS TEACHING 

      James Musyoka, Roger Stern, David Stern (ISI/IASE, 2017)
      A series of papers at this conference have built on the African Data Initiative (ADI) which was started to improve statistical literacy and understanding. One immediate deliverables of this initiative has been new ...