Samuel Alao
Tanzania
Research Article
Differentiating Non-Homoscedasticity and Geospatially Extreme Outliers for Urban and Rural Landscape Dataset Using Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficients for Quantitating Clustering Tendencies in Non- Vaccinated Measles Populations in Nigeria
Author(s): Samuel Alao, Komi Mati and Benjamin JacobSamuel Alao, Komi Mati and Benjamin Jacob
Linearized Models on measles vaccination related centroids in literature cannot provide pertinent data for local government measles managers. Spatial analysis is a cost cutting epidemiological tool for large scale immunization programs. A multivariate regression model was constructed to determine anthropogenic related covariates. In addition, we quantitated the clustering tendencies in the auto- correlated dataset using orthogonal eigenvectors and also illustrated problem hot spots for effective vaccine coverage. Data was retrieved from Demographic Health survey 2013 for Nigeria (N=28,337). Poverty, illiteracy level, and no vitamin A supplements were strong determinants of measles non-vaccination at a statistically significant level of (P<0.0001). The first order autocorrelation statistics (DW=0.1647, P<0.0001), (DW=0.2406, P<0.0001); and second order correlation (Moran&rsquo.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2469-4134.1000185