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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"scale and shape (GAMLSS)"”.
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Constructing growth reference curves for a cohort of South African children
… impacts the future welfare of an individual and ultimately the nation. The importance of childhood growth monitoring with growth curves that accurately represent the growth of the population of interest cannot be overemphasised. This dissertation sought to model the growth of a cohort of …
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STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ANALYSIS OF HIGH-DIMENSIONAL NEUROIMAGING DATA
… tools to capture neuroimaging patterns and address these challenges. First, we propose an approach for capturing unique neuroimaging information in multi-modal datasets. Information within each modality can be analyzed by existing methods; however, additional information is present in …
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Latent class modelling of respiratory outcomes in a South African birth cohort
… long-term health, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) where negative exposures are common. This thesis focuses on two key respiratory outcomes: childhood wheezing and lung function. It examines (1) the underlying heterogeneity of wheezing and lung function …
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Mechanisms of observed spatial heterogeneity in rainfall variability over the winter rainfall zone of South Africa
… in the wake of the 2015–2017 “Day Zero” drought and water crisis. However, this has yielded little insight into the spatial heterogeneity in WRZ climatological seasonality and rainfall variability or their drivers, despite such understanding being crucial for interpreting past and robustly …