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Akoto Yaw Omari-Sasu

Statistics and Actuarial Science

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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.

Research Summary

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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.

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Analysis on the nexus of economic growth, fossil fuel energy consumption, CO2 emissions and oil price in Africa based on a PMG panel ARDL approach(2019)
Reinvestigating the pollution haven hypothesis: the nexus between foreign direct investments and environmental quality in G-20 countries(2022)
Potential economic indicators and environmental quality in African economies: new insight from cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lag approach(2021)
Investigation 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(2020)
Estimating the Determinants of Energy Consumption in Mutlisectoral African Economies: Evidence From Panel Methods Efficient to Heterogeneity and Cross-Sectional Reliance(2020)
Knowledge-Based Economy Capacity Building for Developing Countries: A Panel Analysis in Southern African Development Community(2021)
Estimation of the return periods of maxima rainfall and floods at the Pra River Catchment, Ghana, West Africa using the Gumbel extreme value theory(2021)
Seemingly unrelated time series model for forecasting the peak and short-term electricity demand: Evidence from the Kalman filtered Monte Carlo method(2023)
Dynamic linear state space model for forecasting peak and short-term electricity demand using kalman filtered monte carlo method(2021)
Corrigendum 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](2025)
Does obesity Kuznets curve exist in developing economies? Evidence from 38 African countries based on heterogeneous panel data analysis on income-level classification(2023)
Obesity Kuznets Curve conjecture assessment in African economies: conditioning effects of urbanization, food, and trade using gender-based regional analysis(2025)
Analysis 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(2019)
Teamwork quality and health workers burnout nexus: a new insight from canonical correlation analysis(2022)
A Mixture of Clayton, Gumbel, and Frank Copulas: A Complete Dependence Model(2022)
Volatility Assessment of Equities on the Ghana Stock Exchange(2015)
Hybrid Clayton-Frank Convolution-Based Bivariate Archimedean Copula(2018)
On Two Random Variables and Archimedean Copulas(2017)
On a Hybrid Clayton-Gumbel and Gumbel-Frank Bivariate Copulas with Application to Stock Indices(2018)
Climate change as a game changer: Rethinking Africa’s food security- health outcome nexus through a multi-sectoral lens(2025)
Revisiting the drivers of electricity consumption in designated Sub-Saharan African regions: Unraveling the role of education(2024)
Logit Model for the Determinants of Drug Driving in Ghana(2016)
Time-Frequency Coherence and Forecast Analysis of Selected Stock Returns in Ghan Using Haar Wavelet(2019)
Modelling the Determinants of Students’ Performance in Mathematics(2022)
Modeling Stock Market Volatility Using GARCH Approach on the Ghana Stock Exchange(2015)
Review of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture(2016)
Pension Fund Asset Allocation under the Markowitz Model: A Case of the National Pension Scheme in Ghana(2016)
Survival Analysis of Tuberculosis Patients in Upper West Region of Ghana(2016)
Hedging Longevity Risk using Longevity Swaps: A Case Study of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ghana(2016)
Forecasting Mortality Rate of a Ghanaian University Staff Superannuation Scheme(2017)
Stochastic Mortality Models with Birth Cohort Effects in Older People: A Systematic Review(2024)
Modeling GHS-USD Exchange Rate in Ghana: Application of Stochastic Volatility Model(2018)
Mixture Copula and K-Medoid Modelling of Value-at-Risk(2024)
A Novel Bivariate Regression Model Derived from the Clayton Archimedean Copula and the Odd Dagum-G Family and its Application(2025)
Bivariate Modelling of Stochastic Features: A Convex Mixture Copula Approach(2025)
Modeling Modern Life Insurance Policy Lapses in Ghana: A Competing Risk Approach(2025)
Stochastic and Correlated Waste Collection Problem with Time Windows: A Simheuristic Approach(2025)

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