Factors affecting Child Mortality in Bangladesh

ISBN-13: 9783659166136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 96 str.

Rifat Zahan

Opis

Infant and child mortality rate is still high in Bangladesh. The study of infant and child mortality in developing countries is an important issue in public health programs. This book deals with the extension of the Coxs proportional hazards model that allows for heterogeneity due to omitted covariates using frailty (random effect) approach. The covariates involve some key determinants of childrens time-to-death event. At first the Coxs proportional hazards model and frailty model were fitted with the help of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2007 data and get the estimates and corresponding standard errors of the regression coefficients. Then the application of Bayesian techniques on Coxs proportional hazards model (Kalbfleisch 1978) and frailty model (Clayton, 1991) were proposed. The frequentist parameters results were incorporated in the Bayesian methodology as the prior information. Also the frequentist confidence interval and the Bayesian credible interval of the regression parameters and frailty component were obtained.

O autorze

Ms. Rifat Zahan completed her Bachelor of Science (BSc, 2009) and Master of Science (MSc, 2010) in Applied Statistics from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her research interest mainly lies on Survival Analysis, Bayesian Statistics, Computational Statistics etc. She is working at icddr,b at Emerging Vaccines under the Center for Vaccine Sciences.