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Author:

Petrovich, Justin Peter

Title:

Functional Principal Component Analysis and Sparse Functional Regression

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

functional data analysis
sparse functional data
FPCA
scalar-on-function regression

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Outside Member
Carrie Daymont, Special Member

Author:

Yu, Xiufan

Title:

Nonparametric Estimation of Sufficient Forecasting with a Diverging Number of Factors

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

factor model
forecasting
principal components
high-dimensional predictors
nonparametric estimation
predictive inference

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member

Author:

Mirshani, Ardalan

Title:

Regularization Methods In Functional Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Data
Differential Privacy
Hilbert Space
Variable Selection
Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space
Oracle Property
Elastic Net
Smooth Estimate
Density Estimation

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sheen, Emily Marie

Title:

An Exploration of Mixed Effects Models for Analysis of Infant Weight Gain Trajectories

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

generalized linear mixed models
statistics
biostatistics
microbiome
INSIGHT
mixed effects random forest

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Moysidis, Ilias

Title:

Joint Estimation of Multiple Graphical Models From Heterogeneous Subpopulations

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Graphical Models
Joint estimation
heterogeneous subpopulations
neighborhood selection
variable selection
nonsmooth optimization
functional graphical models

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Bingyuan

Title:

Topics on Nonconvex Learning

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Nonconvex optimization
machine learning
statistical learning
deep learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Seng, Bibiana

Title:

Rerandomization in Fractional Factorial Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics (MS)

Keywords:

Design of Experiments
Rerandomization
Applied Statistics
Factorial Experiments

File:

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Committee Members:

Kari Lock Morgan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sheng, Ben

Title:

The Integration of Multiple Data Sources for HIV/AIDS Incidence and Prevalence Estimation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

antenatal clinic surveillance
HIV prevalence
statistical models
antenatal clinic surveillance
HIV prevalence
statistical models
routine HIV testing among pregnant women
Antenatal clinic
Unlinked anonymous HIV testing
Routine HIV testing
Calibration parameter
Linear mixed-effects model
weakly supervised learning
semi-supervised learning
logistic regression
contingency table
HIV recency
HIV incidence

File:

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Committee Members:

Le Bao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Le Bao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Xun Cao, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Mengyan

Title:

Statistical Inference with Corrupted Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Measurement error model
Efficient score method
Semiparametric regression
High dimensional inference
Nonignorable missing data
Statistical inference

File:

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Committee Members:

Yanyuan Ma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael G Akritas, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Outside Member
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liao, Yujie

Title:

Varying Coefficient Mediation Model

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Mediation analysis
Varying coefficient model
Indirect effect
Generalized linear model

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Major Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Helen Kamens, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Wen, Jiawei

Title:

Multi-block ADMM Algorithms for High-dimensional Sparse Estimation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Feature partition
Alternating direction method of multipliers
High dimensional data

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ethan Xingyuan Fang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Helen Marie Kamens, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Ethan Xingyuan Fang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cui, Shijie

Title:

Statistical Inference for High Dimensional Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

statistics
statistical inference
high dimension
partially linear single index
matrix
rank
double robust
measurement error
misspecified
sparse SVD

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Major Field Member
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Laga, Ian

Title:

Everyone Counts: Advanced Methods for Estimating Marginalized Populations

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

HIV
Key Population
Bayesian Modeling
Small Area Estimation
Prevalence Mapping
Size Estimation
Aggregated Relational Data

File:

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Committee Members:

Ashton Verdery, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiaoyue Niu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Le Bao, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hyungsuk Tak, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tao, Jun

Title:

New advances in structure learning of graphical models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

graphical model
statistical learning

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lingzhou Xue, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Antonio Blanca, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Cai, Zhanrui

Title:

New Statistical Tools for Independence and Conditional Independence

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Online leaerning
dimension reduction
test of independence
test of conditional independence
causal discovery

File:

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Committee Members:

Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Major Field Member
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Ming Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zeng, Mudong

Title:

Statistical Inference for High Dimensional Mediation Model

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Mediation Analysis
Penalized Least Squares
Sparsity

File:

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Committee Members:

Hong Ma, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair