17Sep 2018

THE IMPACT OF HEALTH-RELATED PROBLEM ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS: APPLICATION OF DUMMY VARIABLE REGRESSION MODEL

  • Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Wolkite University, Wolkite, Ethiopia.
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Health is a base for social, cultural and economic development of society. But sometimes attaining this health, unfavorable condition is impossible due to some health problems. The aim of this study is to identify the main impact health-related problems of student?s academic achievement in Samara University. The type of the data in this study is primary data collected from students. In this study, we used some statistical techniques such as stratified random sampling and some statistical models such as regressionand chi-square which is used as inferential model to determine relationship between students? GPA and the impact of health related problems. Some statistical software packages like SPSS version 20 used in this study for analysis the data. There are 11 variables selected us health related problems that affect student academic achievement of student in Samara University those are sex, age, drug use, smoking cigarette, sleeping disorder, mental problem, TB, typhoid and gastric, but the study shows only there are five variables that affect student academic achievement of student in Samara University those are typhoid, TB, mental problem, sleeping disorder and gastric disease are the most variables that affect the students? academic achievement. Finally this study recommend that the University or the concern body will have to consider these problems and try to find the immediate solutions in order to the students to become successful in their academic achievement

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[Sebsib Muanenda (2018); THE IMPACT OF HEALTH-RELATED PROBLEM ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS: APPLICATION OF DUMMY VARIABLE REGRESSION MODEL Int. J. of Adv. Res. 6 (Sep). 350-357] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/7685      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/7685

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