Richard Kodzo Avuglah
Department of Statistics and Actuarial ScienceLife SciencesSocial SciencesPhysical SciencesHealth Sciences

Richard Kodzo Avuglah

21 Publications16 Research Themes16 Open Access
Research Overview & Focus

The researcher's work is centered on applying advanced statistical and computational techniques across diverse fields such as transportation, trade, finance, environmental science, health sciences, energy systems, biology, social behaviors, and economics. Utilizing innovative models and methodologies, the researcher addresses complex systems through applied mathematics and data analysis.

Faculty Biography

Dr. Richard Kodzo Avuglah is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. He is a Financial Statistician. His research area includes Design of Experiments, and Statistical and Financial Modelling.He holds a degree in B.Sc Mathematics from the University of Cape Coast (1999) and an M.Sc degree in Financial Mathematics and a Ph.D in Applied Mathematical Statistics from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (2003 and 2011 respectively).

Key Research Themes (16)
Life Sciences

Agricultural risk and resilience

Life Sciences

Agriculture and Rural Development Research

Social Sciences

Economic and Environmental Valuation

Social Sciences

Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling

Social Sciences

FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance

Physical Sciences

Forest ecology and management

Social Sciences

Global trade and economics

Social Sciences

Global trade, sustainability, and social impact

Physical Sciences

Image and Signal Denoising Methods

Physical Sciences

Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection

Physical Sciences

Integrated Energy Systems Optimization

Health Sciences

Malaria Research and Control

Social Sciences

Optimal Experimental Design Methods

Social Sciences

Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design

Physical Sciences

Traffic and Road Safety

Life Sciences

Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies

Publications (21)

Optimizing renewable energy integration: statistical models for grid stability and economic viability

Open Access
2025Integrated Energy Systems OptimizationDOI: 10.20935/acadenergy7430

Identifying Heterogeneous Preferences for Informal Sector Pension Plans in Ghana Using a Latent Class Discrete Choice Model

Open Access
2025Economic and Environmental ValuationDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5143950

Geographically weighted logistic regression model for identifying risk factors for malaria infection among under-5 children in Ghana

Open Access
2024Malaria Research and ControlDOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2024.e02398

Simulation Study of Estimators of the Gamma Rate Parameter Using MLE as a Baseline Estimator

2024Image and Signal Denoising MethodsDOI: 10.1007/s41096-024-00182-z

Quantum Leap and Uptake for Technological Advances in Africa in the Era of the COVID-19 Crisis

2024FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital FinanceDOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9962-7.ch013

Determinants of Length of Stay of Snakebite Victims in a Hospital. Statistical Modeling Approach

Open Access
2023Venomous Animal Envenomation and StudiesDOI: 10.59324/ejtas.2023.1(5).124

Some Steps towards Experimental Design for Neural Network Regression

Open Access
2022Optimal Experimental Design MethodsDOI: 10.24406/publica-fhg-279230

A Mixture of Clayton, Gumbel, and Frank Copulas: A Complete Dependence Model

Open Access
2022Financial Risk and Volatility ModelingDOI: 10.1155/2022/1422394

Improved estimators for the rate parameter of gamma model using asymptotic properties

Open Access
2021Probabilistic and Robust Engineering DesignDOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06941

Application of Joint Generalized Linear Models in Determining Physical Support Factors that Influence Crop Yield in Northern Ghana

Open Access
2020Agriculture and Rural Development ResearchDOI: 10.13189/ujar.2020.080404

On a Hybrid Clayton-Gumbel and Gumbel-Frank Bivariate Copulas with Application to Stock Indices

Open Access
2018Financial Risk and Volatility ModelingDOI: 10.9734/jamcs/2019/45668

RECOGNITION OF FACE IMAGES UNDER VARYING HEAD-POSES USING FFT-PCA/SVD ALGORITHM

2018Industrial Vision Systems and Defect DetectionDOI: 10.17654/ms103111769

Hybrid Clayton-Frank Convolution-Based Bivariate Archimedean Copula

Open Access
2018Financial Risk and Volatility ModelingDOI: 10.1155/2018/5902839

On Two Random Variables and Archimedean Copulas

Open Access
2017Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling

Performance Assessment of Penalized Variable Selection Methods Using Crop Yield Data from the Three Northern Regions of Ghana

Open Access
2016Agricultural risk and resilience

Impact of Trade Policies on Wood Products Export in Ghana

Open Access
2015Forest ecology and management

Analysis of Crop Yield Physical Support Services Data Using Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models

Open Access
2015Agricultural risk and resilience

Time Series Behavior of the Volume of Wood Products Export in Ghana

Open Access
2014Global trade and economicsDOI: 10.5539/ijsp.v3n4p12

Application of ARIMA Models to Road Traffic Accident Cases in Ghana

2014Traffic and Road SafetyDOI: 10.5923/j.statistics.20140405.03

Modeling Road Traffic Fatality Cases in Ghana.

2014Traffic and Road Safety

Modeling annual Coffee production in Ghana using ARIMA time series Model

Open Access
2012Global trade, sustainability, and social impactDOI: 10.18533/ijbsr.v2i7.129
Academic Metrics
DepartmentDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Total Publications21
Research Themes16
Open Access Papers16

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