Tadele Akeba Diriba

• Full Name:  Tadele Akeba Diriba
• Nationality: Ethiopian
• Academic Rank: Assistant professor
• College/institute: College of Natural Sciences
• Department: Statistics
• Research interest:
  • Extreme value analysis
  • Bayesian methods
  • Spatial data analysis
  • Survival data analysis
  • Longitudinal data analysis

Publications:

1. Futasa, T., Fufa, J.A., Diriba, T.A., Banbeta, A. (2024). Measuring transitional intensities and covariate effects for Chronic Kidney Disease progression: A multi‑state continuous‑time Markov process model. (BMC Nephrology, Under review).
2. Gemechu, B.H., Diriba, T.A., Kifle, D.,, Tadesse, M., Tukeni K.N. (2024). Unobserved heterogeneity effects and determinants for clustered time-to-death outcomes in patients with ischemic heart disease. (Discover Public Health, Under review)
3. Diriba, K, Diriba, T.A., Fufa, J.A., Tadesse, M., (2024). Time to recovery of diabetic patients from COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study at Eka Kotebe General Hospital, Ethiopia. (Accepted, Journal of Ethiopian Statistical Association)
4. Diriba, T.A., Debusho, L.K., (2023). Spatio-temporal dependence modelling of extreme rainfall in South Africa: a Bayesian integrated nested Laplace approximation technique. Communication in Statistics. Apr 3;9(2):152-80.
5. Adisu, M., Amankwah, S., Tamrat, R., Alemu, Y., Diriba, T.A, & Tadesse, M. (2023). Colonization and Associated Risk Factors of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Among People Living with HIV at Jimma Medical Center, Southwest Ethiopia. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medical Sciences, 9(4), 65-74.
6. Diriba, T.A., Debusho, L.K. (2023). Seasonal and station effects modelling to extreme temperature data in South Africa. Environmental modeling and assessment. 28(3):465-89.
7. Diriba, T.A., Daba B.F., Kenenisa, T.D., Debusho, L.K. (2023). Competing risk models to evaluate the factors for time to loss to follow-up among tuberculosis patients at Ambo General Hospital: a frequentist approach. BMC Archives of Public Health. 81(1):1-1.
8. Zewude B. T., Debusho, L.K., Diriba, T.A. (2022). Multilevel logistic regression modelling to quantify variation in malaria prevalence in Ethiopia. PloS one, 17(9), e0273147.
9. Diriba, T.A., Debusho, L.K. (2021). Statistical modelling of spatial extremes through max-stable process models: application to extreme rainfall events in South Africa. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 26(10): 05021028
10. Diriba, T.A., Debusho, L.K. (2021). Statistical modelling of extreme rainfall indices using multivariate extreme value distributions. Environmental Modelling and Assessment. doi.org/10.1007/s10666-021-09766-6
11. Debusho, L.K., Diriba, T.A. (2021). Conditional modelling approach to multivariate extreme value distributions: application to extreme rainfall events in South Africa. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. doi.org/10.1007/s10651-021-00498-0
12. Diriba, T. A., Debusho, L. K. (2020). Modelling dependency effect to extreme value distributions with application to extreme wind speed at Port Elizabeth, South Africa: a frequentist and Bayesian approaches. Computational Statistics. 35:1449-1479.
13. Diriba, T. A., Debusho, L. K. Botai, J. (2020). Modelling dependence structures of extreme wind speed using bivariate distribution: a Bayesian approach. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 27:319-362.
14. Diriba, T. A., Debusho, L. K., Botai, J., and Hassen, A. (2017). Bayesian modelling of extreme wind speed at Cape Town, South Africa. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 24:243-267.
15. Birlie, B., Diriba, T. A., Sisay, k., Gurmessa, A., Seyoum, D. and Tadesse, M. (2016). Mother to child HIV transmission and its predictors among HIV-exposed infants: A retrospective follow-up study in Southwest Ethiopia. Journal of AIDS Clinical Research. 2016, 7:9.
16. Debusho, L. K. and Diriba, T. A. (2016). Bayesian modelling of summer daily maximum temperature data. Recent advances in mathematics and computational science: Peer-reviewed Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mathematical, Computational and Statistical Sciences, Spain, (MCSS ’16), pp. 126-133.
17. Diriba, T. A., Debusho, L. K. and Botai, J. (2015). Modelling extreme daily temperature using generalized Pareto distribution at Port Elizabeth, South Africa. South African Statistical Journal: Peer-reviewed Proceedings of the 57th Annual Conference of the South African Statistical Association, pp. 41-48.
18. Diriba, T. A., Debusho, L. K., Botai, J., and Hassen, A. (2014). Analysis of extreme rainfall at East London, South Africa. South African Statistical Journal: Peer-reviewed Proceedings of the 56th Annual Conference of the South African Statistical Association, pp. 25 -32.