This study explores the use of exible link functions in discrete survival models through a simulation study and an application to the Swaziland Demographic and Health Survey (SDHS) data. The objective of the research ...

Energy demand forecasting is a vital tool for energy management, maintenance planning, environmental security, and investment decision-making in liberalised energy markets. The mini-dissertation investigates ways to ...

Renewable energy forecasts are critical to renewable energy grids and backup plans, operational plans and short-term power purchases. This dissertation focused on forecasting solar irradiance at one radiometric station ...

Daily peak electricity data from ESKOM, South African power utility company for the period, January 1997 to December 2013 consisting of 6209 observations were used in this dissertation. Since 1994, the increased electricity ...