Dr Peter Njuho is a senior research specialist in the HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB research programme programme. He holds a PhD from Kansas State University and an MSc from North Carolina State University, USA, both in applied statistics. Before joining the HSRC, Dr Njuho worked as a senior lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Campus. His work involved teaching, consulting and conducting research. He was a visiting professor at the University of Hasselt, Belgium and Kansas State University, USA. He has supervised PhD and MSc students in applied statistics. Dr Njuho's research experience includes: application of meta analysis, confounding schemes, mixed model (REML), survey designs, randomised experiments, measurement errors, statistical evaluation of medical tests, analysis of health surveys studies, and handling of non-replicated experiments. Recent publications and research include authored and co-authored papers published in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of applied statistics and linear mixed models. Dr Njuho has presented papers at both local and international conferences.
Recent publications - P M Njuho and G A Milliken (2009). Analysis of Linear Models with Two Factors Having Both Fixed and Random Levels. Journal of Communications in Statistics Theory and Methods, 38(14), pp 2348-2365
- Girma Taye and P M Njuho (2008). Smoothing fertility trends in agricultural field experiments. Statistics: A Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics. Vol. 43(3), pp 275-289.
- Girma Taye and P M Njuho (2008). Monitoring field variability using confidence interval for coefficient of variation. Journal of Communications in Statistics Theory and Methods. Vol. 37(6), pp 831-846.
- Girma Taye and P M Njuho (2007). Improvement on Papadakis covariate to account for spatial variation. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. Vol. 12, No. 3, pp.397-413.
- P M Njuho (2007). Book review. Dose finding in drug development (N. Ting, Ed). Biometrics 63, pp 300-308.
- P M. Njuho and G A. Milliken (2005). Analysis of Linear Models with One Factor Having Both Fixed and Random Levels. Journal of Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods. Vol.34(9) Pp 1979-1989.
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