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Ngunyi, Anthony |
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Stella Mutahi |
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dc.contributor.author |
Thomas Mageto |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2021-05-27T06:47:22Z |
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dc.date.available |
2021-05-27T06:47:22Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2020-12 |
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Stella Mutahi, Thomas Mageto, Antony Ngunyi, Inter-Arrival Time Modeling of Threshold Scores in Mathematics Among School Pupils; A Case of Acacia Crest School, Kenya, International Journal of Data Science and Analysis. Vol. 6, No. 6, 2020, pp. 213-219. doi: 10.11648/j.ijdsa.20200606.15 |
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2364-415X |
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doi: 10.11648/j.ijdsa.20200606.15 |
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http://repository.dkut.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/4760 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Mathematical literacy is the ability to use numbers to help solve real-world problems. It focuses on pupils' ability to analyze, justify and communicate ideas effectively with regard to formulating, solving and interpreting Mathematical problems in a variety of forms and situations. The study modeled above threshold scores in mathematics among school pupils as an indicator for being mathematically literate. Modeling was on the inter-arrival times for pupils scoring above threshold scores (Mathematics mean score) for a given sample of pupils in their mid and end of term examinations. The Poisson distribution has been widely used as a statistical procedure for modeling inter-arrival times for count data outcomes. However, for heavy-tailed inter-arrival times of successive outcomes, the Poisson distribution exhibits an empirical observational failure thus setting up a framework for the use of other distributions that can handle such heavy-tailed data. The study used the generalized Gumbel and Weibull inter-arrival time distributions which were assumed to nest the standard Poisson distribution in which Weibull inter-arrival gave a better fit to the data. Data used was secondary data on pupil performance in Mathematics in relation to other subjects from Acacia Crest School. |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
International Journal of Data Science and Analysis |
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dc.title |
Inter-Arrival Time Modeling of Threshold Scores in Mathematics Among School Pupils; A Case of Acacia Crest School, Kenya |
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Article |
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