Survivor rates of new entrants into an undergraduate degree programme under clearance uncertainty
Author(s) -
Virtue U. Ekhosuehi,
Francis O. Oyegue
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
african journal of applied statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2316-0861
DOI - 10.16929/ajas/2016.57.201
Subject(s) - degree (music) , psychology , economics , physics , acoustics
. Considering the clearance exercise in a Nigerian university setting, this study attempts to answer the question of the following sort: ‘What is the survivor rate of candidates offered (provisional) admission into a course of study in the face of clearance uncertainty?’ We represent the problem as a system of differential equations within the framework of a network model with constant risk and then solve it using the Laplace transform. Rather than relying on steady-states fractional flow rates, we provide a transient solution to the problem. The survivor function for each entry level derived for the problem sheds some light on situations where a decision is to be made on two (or more) preferred courses and thus evades possible trauma in the application process. Résumé : Cette étude prend place dans la problématique de l’admission des étudiants dans les universités nigériannes. Elle se propose de répondre aux questions semblables à celle-ci : quel est le taux de survie (final) des candidats provisoirement admis à un programme dans une situation d’admission finale incertaine? Nous modélisons ce problème grâce à un système d’équations différentielles dans le cadre d’un modèle de réseau à risque constant. La transformation de Laplace est notre outil pour résoudre le problème théorique.
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