Akoto Yaw Omari-Sasu
The researcher integrates multiple disciplines to explore complex systems spanning economics, social sciences, and environmental science. Their work encompasses economic factors like fossil fuels, energy consumption, and environment, public health issues such as poverty and demographics, and the application of advanced statistical methods including copulas, mixture models, and Bayesian approaches. The overarching focus is to uncover common mechanisms linking these diverse areas through innovative methodologies and comprehensive data analysis.
Faculty Biography
Akoto Yaw Omari–Sasu is currently an Associate Professor of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi, Ghana. He holds PhD in Applied Statistics from University for Development Studies (UDS) Tamale, Ghana. He also holds an MSc in Financial Mathematics and Statistics from Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany as well as a BSc Mathematics from KNUST Kumasi, Ghana. He has since September 2006 been involved in academic employment in various tertiary institutions in Ghana. He was first appointed Assistant Lecturer at All Nations University College (ANU) Koforidua, Ghana, then a lecturer at the University for Development Studies Tamale, Ghana before joining the Department of Mathematics KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana. During his course of work, he has served on various committees and boards within the universities. He continues to serve as a moderator and external examiner to some universities as well as a reviewer of international journals. His research area is in Applied Statistics. He has over twenty-five publications in peer-reviewed international journals. His research area is in Applied Statistics. He teaches mainly courses in Mathematics, Statistics, and Actuarial Science.
Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring
Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
Economic Growth and Development
Energy and Environment Impacts
Energy Load and Power Forecasting
Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling
Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
Global Health Care Issues
Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Image and Signal Denoising Methods
Insurance and Financial Risk Management
Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
Malaria Research and Control
Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Optimization and Mathematical Programming
Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications
Stock Market Forecasting Methods
Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
Stochastic and Correlated Waste Collection Problem with Time Windows: A Simheuristic Approach
Open AccessCorrigendum to “Seemingly unrelated time series model for forecasting the peak and short-term electricity demand: Evidence from the Kalman filtered Monte Carlo method” [Heliyon Volume 9, Issue 8, August 2023, Article e18821]
Open AccessBivariate Modelling of Stochastic Features: A Convex Mixture Copula Approach
Open AccessClimate change as a game changer: Rethinking Africa’s food security- health outcome nexus through a multi-sectoral lens
Open AccessObesity Kuznets Curve conjecture assessment in African economies: conditioning effects of urbanization, food, and trade using gender-based regional analysis
Open AccessModeling Modern Life Insurance Policy Lapses in Ghana: A Competing Risk Approach
Open AccessA Novel Bivariate Regression Model Derived from the Clayton Archimedean Copula and the Odd Dagum-G Family and its Application
Open AccessRevisiting the drivers of electricity consumption in designated Sub-Saharan African regions: Unraveling the role of education
Open AccessStochastic Mortality Models with Birth Cohort Effects in Older People: A Systematic Review
Open AccessMixture Copula and K-Medoid Modelling of Value-at-Risk
Open AccessDoes obesity Kuznets curve exist in developing economies? Evidence from 38 African countries based on heterogeneous panel data analysis on income-level classification
Open AccessSeemingly unrelated time series model for forecasting the peak and short-term electricity demand: Evidence from the Kalman filtered Monte Carlo method
Open AccessModelling the Determinants of Students’ Performance in Mathematics
Open AccessTeamwork quality and health workers burnout nexus: a new insight from canonical correlation analysis
Open AccessA Mixture of Clayton, Gumbel, and Frank Copulas: A Complete Dependence Model
Open AccessReinvestigating the pollution haven hypothesis: the nexus between foreign direct investments and environmental quality in G-20 countries
Potential economic indicators and environmental quality in African economies: new insight from cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lag approach
Dynamic linear state space model for forecasting peak and short-term electricity demand using kalman filtered monte carlo method
Estimation of the return periods of maxima rainfall and floods at the Pra River Catchment, Ghana, West Africa using the Gumbel extreme value theory
Open AccessKnowledge-Based Economy Capacity Building for Developing Countries: A Panel Analysis in Southern African Development Community
Open AccessInvestigation on key contributors of energy consumption in dynamic heterogeneous panel data (DHPD) model for African countries: fresh evidence from dynamic common correlated effect (DCCE) approach
Estimating the Determinants of Energy Consumption in Mutlisectoral African Economies: Evidence From Panel Methods Efficient to Heterogeneity and Cross-Sectional Reliance
Open AccessAnalysis of Haematological Parameters as Predictors of Malaria Infection Using a Logistic Regression Model: A Case Study of a Hospital in the Ashanti Region of Ghana
Open AccessAnalysis on the nexus of economic growth, fossil fuel energy consumption, CO2 emissions and oil price in Africa based on a PMG panel ARDL approach
Time-Frequency Coherence and Forecast Analysis of Selected Stock Returns in Ghan Using Haar Wavelet
Open AccessOn a Hybrid Clayton-Gumbel and Gumbel-Frank Bivariate Copulas with Application to Stock Indices
Open AccessModeling GHS-USD Exchange Rate in Ghana: Application of Stochastic Volatility Model
Open AccessHybrid Clayton-Frank Convolution-Based Bivariate Archimedean Copula
Open AccessOn Two Random Variables and Archimedean Copulas
Open AccessForecasting Mortality Rate of a Ghanaian University Staff Superannuation Scheme
Hedging Longevity Risk using Longevity Swaps: A Case Study of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ghana
Survival Analysis of Tuberculosis Patients in Upper West Region of Ghana
Open AccessPension Fund Asset Allocation under the Markowitz Model: A Case of the National Pension Scheme in Ghana
Review of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
Open AccessLogit Model for the Determinants of Drug Driving in Ghana
Open AccessModeling Stock Market Volatility Using GARCH Approach on the Ghana Stock Exchange
Open AccessVolatility Assessment of Equities on the Ghana Stock Exchange
Open AccessDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology