Department of Statistics

Prof G Kabera

College of Science, Engineering and Technology
School of Science
Department: Statistics
Associate Professor
Tel: 011 670 9062
E-mail: kaberg@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • PhD in Statistics (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Fields of academic interests

  • Optimal experimental Designs
  • Survival Analysis
  • Analytic Hierarchy Process

Field of Specialisation

  • Statistics

Journal articles

  1. B. J. Bucyibaruta,  J.  Eyles, B. Harris, G. Kabera, K. Oboirien and B.  Ngyende (2018). Patients’ perspectives of acceptability of ART, TB and maternal health services in a subdistrict of Johannesburg, South Africa. BMC Health Services Research, 7;18(1):839. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3625-5.
  2. M. S. Motebejane, G.  Kabera, D.  Royston, R. Harrichandparsad, I. Kaminsky , and I. S. Choi (2018). Demographic and Angioarchitectural features associated with Brain Arteriovenous Malformations Hemorrhagic Presentation, in South Africa. Journal of Neurology and Neurosurgery (Open Access).  (ISSN: 2373-8995)
  3. L. M. Haines, G. M. Kabera, and O. Ndlovu (2018).  D-optimal designs for the two-variable binary logistic regression model with interaction.  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 193, 136 -150.
  4. M. S. Motebejane, D. Royston, G.  Kabera, R.  Harrichandparsad, I.  Kaminsky and I. S. Choi (2018).  Demographic and angioarchitectural features associated with seizures presentation in patients with brain arteriovenous malformations in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.  Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 11, 14 -18
  5. R. Street, G. Kabera, and C.  Connolly (2018). Ethnopharmacological use of potassium permanganate in South African traditional medicine. South African Medical Journal, 108 (3), 187-189
  6. M. Loveday, A. Ramjee, G. Osburn, I. Master, G. Kabera, J. C. M.  Brust,  N. Padayatchi, R. Warren and G. Theron (2017). Drug-resistant tuberculosis in patients with minimal symptoms: favourable outcomes in the absence of treatment. INT J TUBERC LUNG DIS, 2017, 21(5):556–563.
  7. Street, R.A., Kabera, G.M. & Connolly, C. Copper sulphate use in South African traditional medicine. Environ Geochem Health (2016). doi:10.1007/s10653-016-9824-2
  8. Renée A. Street, Gaëtan M. Kabera and Catherine Connolly. Metallic mercury use by South African traditional health practitioners: perceptions and practices. Environmental Health journal 2015, 14 (1):67. Available online: doi:10.1186/s12940-015-0053-4
  9. Muhire, I., Ahmed, F., Abutaleb, K. and Kabera, G. Impacts of projected changes and variability in climatic data on major food crops yields in Rwanda.  International Journal of Plant Production July 2015, 9(3) 347:371.
  10. Gaëtan M. Kabera, Linda M. Haines & Principal Ndlovu (2015).  The analytic construction of D-optimal designs for the two-variable binary logistic regression model without interaction, Statistics, 49 (5), 1169-1186, DOI: 10.1080/02331888.2014.937342.
  11. Bantubani N., Kabera G., Connolly C., Rustomjee R., Reddy T., Cohen T., and Pym A. S. High Rates of Potentially Infectious Tuberculosis and Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among Hospital Inpatients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Indicate Nosocomial Transmission. PLoS One, 9(3), 2014. Available online: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090868.
  12. Kabera M. G. and Haines L. M.  A note on the statistical analysis of point judgment matrices, ORiON, 2013, 29, 75-86.
  13. Kabera M. G., Haines L. M. and Ndlovu P.  A note on the construction of locally D- and DS- optimal designs for the binary logistic model with several explanatory variables. Statistics and Probability Letters, 2012, 8, 865-870.
  14. Mavundza E. J., Maharaj R., Finnie J. F., Kabera G., Van Staden J. An ethnobotanical survey of mosquito repellent plants in UMkhanyakude district, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. J. Ethnopharmacology, 2011, 137(3), 1516-1520.
  15. Holtz T. H., Rustomjee R., Kabera M. G., Zingoni T., Nadesan S., Ross D., Chideya S., Allen J. and Sunpath H. Use of a WHO-recommended algorithm to reduce mortality in seriously ill patients with HIV infection and smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in South Africa: an observational cohort study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2011, 11 (7), 533-540.
  16. M. Gaëtan Kabera and Linda Haines, A Statistical Approach to the Analytic Hierarchy Process, in Peer-reviewed Proceedings of the 52th Annual Conference of the South African Statistical Association, 2010, 28 – 35.
  17. Haines, L. M., Kabera, M. G., Ndlovu, P. and O'Brien T. E. D-optimal designs for logistic regression in two variables. In: Lopez-Fidalgo, J., Rodriguez-Diaz, J. M. and Torsney, B. (Eds), MODA8 - Advances in Model-Oriented Designs and Analysis, 2007, 91-98.

Projects

  • Optimal designs for generalized linear models
  • Collaboration in biostatistical research (TB, traditional medicine, neurosurgery etc.)