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Author:

Root, Tammy Lynn

Title:

LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS WITH INFORMATIVE PRIORS

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

latent class analysis
small sample
identification
Bayesian methodology
informative priors

File:

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Committee Members:

Linda Marie Collins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leann L Birch, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Rhonda Belue, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Tianjiang

Title:

Abstract Principal Component Analysis And Applications To Model Reduction

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Banach operator algebra
standing and traveling waves
signal decomposition
extraction of transient modes
abstract principal component analysis
data mining

File:

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Committee Members:

Qiang Du, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiang Du, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Committee Member
Anna L Mazzucato, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Yao, Weixin

Title:

On using mixtures and modes of mixtures in data analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

robust regression
label switching
mixtures

File:

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Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Yao, Xiaopan

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF THE GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON HYPERTENSION (HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE) IN AFRICAN AMERICANS

Graduate Program:

Genetics

Keywords:

hypertension

File:

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Committee Members:

George Patrick Vogler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David John Vandenbergh, Committee Member
Keith Whitfield, Committee Member
Karen Boomer, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Yan

Title:

Local Modeling For Data With Autocorrelations

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Multivariate
Autoregressions
Nonoparametric models
Variable Selection

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Yang

Title:

A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE REGULATION AND BEHAVIOR OF WEB CRAWLERS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

botseer
ethics
bias
web crawler
robots.txt

File:

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Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Z Wang, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yang

Title:

Varying-Coefficient Models: New Models, Inference Procedures, and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Monte Carlo simulation
semi-parametric
semiparametric
nonparametric regression
kernel regression
local likelihood
generalized likelihood ratio test
cross validation
Time-varying-coefficient model
Nonlinear
Local Linear
Varying-coefficient Model
forecasting
bandwidth
bootstraping
bootstrap

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Damla Senturk, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yiyun

Title:

Regularization Parameter Selection for Variable Selection in High-dimensional Modelling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

GLIM
LASSO
Penalized Likelihood
SCAD
Variable Selection

File:

Download yiyun_phd_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member

Author:

Jiang, Yuejiao

Title:

Estimation and forecasting methodologies for nonparametric regression models via dynamic linear models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

nonparametric regression models
dynamic linear models

File:

Download YuejiaoJiangdissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavković, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Wan, Yuanyuan

Title:

INTEGRATION BASED METHODS FOR ECONOMETRIC MODELS

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

cube root
Integration based methods
moment inequality

File:

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Committee Members:

Joris Pinkse And Sung Jae Jun, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joris Pinkes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sung Jae Jun, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Herman J Bierens, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member