Browsing by Supervisor "Bolstad, William M."
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A nested random effects model analysis of child survival in Malawi
(The University of Waikato, 1998)This thesis investigates child survival in Malawi using a modified Cox proportional hazards model which includes family and community random effects in addition to the fixed effect of the covariates. The parameters of the ... -
Sexual network random effects models of migration and spread of HIV and other STIs in South Africa
(The University of Waikato, 2004)South Africa is experiencing an explosive epidemic of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)s. Furthermore, South Africa has extraordinarily high rates of migration. The predominant ...
