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Richard Minkah

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF BASIC & APPLIED SC.
School / InstituteSCH. OF PHYSICAL & MATH. SC.
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
Extreme Value TheoryComputational Statistics
Publications

37

Citations

331

H-index

11

i10-index

13

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
8.9
Most cited paper
60
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 09:27
Publications

37 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
A size-of-loss model for the negatively skewed insurance claims data: applications, risk analysis using different methods and statistical forecasting
HS Mohamed, GM Cordeiro, R Minkah, HM Yousof, M Ibrahim
2024 Journal of Applied Statistics 51 (2), 348-369, 2024 Natural Sciences 60
Assessing groundwater quality in peri-urban Accra, Ghana: Implications for drinking and irrigation purposes
GB Hagan, R Minkah, GAB Yiran, E Dankyi
2022 Groundwater for Sustainable Development 17, 100761, 2022 Agriculture 31
Endemic grasshopper species distribution in an agro-natural landscape of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa
S Adu-Acheampong, MJ Samways, T Landmann, R Kyerematen, ...
2017 Ecological Engineering 105, 133-140, 2017 Natural Sciences 30
Forecasting volatility
R Minkah
2007 Natural Sciences 24
A novel model for quantitative risk assessment under claim-size data with bimodal and symmetric data modeling
HM Yousof, W Emam, Y Tashkandy, MM Ali, R Minkah, M Ibrahim
2023 Mathematics 11 (6), 1284, 2023 Natural Sciences 22
An application of extreme value theory to the management of a hydroelectric dam
R Minkah
2016 SpringerPlus 5 (1), 96, 2016 Social Sciences 18
Robust extreme quantile estimation for Pareto-type tails through an exponential regression model
R Minkah, T de Wet, A Ghosh, HM Yousof
2023 Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods 30 (6), 531-550, 2023 Natural Sciences 16
Recognition of Augmented Frontal Face Images Using FFT‐PCA/SVD Algorithm
F Ayiah-Mensah, L Asiedu, FO Mettle, R Minkah
2021 Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing 2021 (1), 6686759, 2021 Engineering 15
Baseline comparative analysis and review of election forensics: Application to Ghana's 2012 and 2020 presidential elections
EF Agyemang, ENN Nortey, R Minkah, K Asah-Asante
2023 Heliyon 9 (8), 2023 Social Sciences 13
Robust estimation of Pareto-type tail index through an exponential regression model
R Minkah, T de Wet, A Ghosh
2023 Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods 52 (2), 479-498, 2023 Natural Sciences 11
Bayesian estimation of presidential elections in ghana: A validation approach
ENN Nortey, EF Agyemang, R Minkah, K Asah-Asante
2022 African Journal of Applied Statistics 9 (1), 1297-1317, 2022 Natural Sciences 11
A Novel Model for Quantitative Risk Assessment under Claim-Size Data with Bimodal and Symmetric Data Modeling. Mathematics, 11, 1284
HM Yousof, W Emam, Y Tashkandy, MM Ali, R Minkah, M Ibrahim
2023 Natural Sciences 10
The unfolding mystery of the numbers: First and second digits based comparative tests and its application to Ghana’s elections
EF Agyemang, ENN Nortey, R Minkah, K Asah-Asante
2023 Model Assisted Statistics and Applications 18 (2), 183-192, 2023 Natural Sciences 10
A Novel Insurance Claims (Revenues) Xgamma Extension: Distributional Risk Analysis Utilizing Left-Skewed Insurance Claims and Right-Skewed Reinsurance Revenues Data with …
H Yousof, M Afshari, M Alizadeh, V Ranjbar, R Minkah, MS Hamed, ...
2025 Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research, 83-117, 2025 Natural Sciences 8
Shrinkage methods for estimating the shape parameter of the generalized Pareto distribution
WA Pels, AO Adebanji, S Twumasi-Ankrah, R Minkah
2023 Journal of Applied Mathematics 2023 (1), 9750638, 2023 Natural Sciences 7
A reduced-bias weighted least square estimation of the extreme value index
E Ocran, R Minkah, K Doku-Amponsah
2021 arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.08570, 2021 Natural Sciences 7
A Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methodology with bootstrap percentile estimates for predicting presidential election results in Ghana
ENN Nortey, T Ansah-Narh, R Asah-Asante, R Minkah
2015 SpringerPlus 4 (1), 525, 2015 Social Sciences 7
Tail index estimation of the generalised Pareto distribution using a pivot from a transformed Pareto distribution
R Minkah
2020 Science and Development Journal 4 (1), 19-19, 2020 Natural Sciences 6
An enhanced method for tail index estimation under missingness
F Ayiah-Mensah, R Minkah, L Asiedu, FO Mettle
2021 Journal of Applied Mathematics 2021 (1), 3572555, 2021 Natural Sciences 4
Assessing the Performance of the Discrete Generalised Pareto Distribution in Modelling Non‐Life Insurance Claims
SKB Dzidzornu, R Minkah
2021 Journal of Probability and Statistics 2021 (1), 5518583, 2021 Natural Sciences 4
On extreme value index estimation under random censoring
R Minkah, DE Tertius, DA Kwabena
2018 African Journal of Applied Statistics 5 (2), 419-445, 2018 Natural Sciences 4
Comparison of confidence interval estimators: An index approach
R Minkah, T de Wet
2017 arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08572, 2017 Natural Sciences 4
Constant versus covariate dependent threshold in the peaks-over threshold method
R Minkah, T de Wet
2018 arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03432, 2018 Natural Sciences 3
A cost of misclassification adjustment approach for estimating optimal cut‐off point for classification
OA Ampomah, R Minkah, G Kallah-Dagadu, ENN Nortey
2024 Journal of Probability and Statistics 2024 (1), 8082372, 2024 Natural Sciences 2
Estimation of the Tail Index of Pareto‐Type Distributions Using Regularisation
E Ocran, R Minkah, G Kallah-Dagadu, K Doku-Amponsah
2022 Journal of Mathematics 2022 (1), 5064875, 2022 Natural Sciences 2