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Author:

Dziak, John Joseph

Title:

PENALIZED QUADRATIC INFERENCE FUNCTIONS FOR VARIABLE SELECTION IN LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

SCAD
LASSO
QIF
GEE
generalized estimating equations
variable selection

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Linda Marie Collins, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Min Kyung

Title:

On Dimension Folding of Matrix or Array Valued Statistical Objects

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kronecker Envelop
Directional Regression
Sliced Inverse Regression
Sliced Average Variance Estimate

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, 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:

Dong, Yuexiao

Title:

Dimension Reduction for the Conditional Kth Moment via Central Solution Space

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dimension reduction space
central space
central solution space
central kth moment solution space
central kth moment space

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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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:

Zambom, Adriano Zanin

Title:

Hypothesis Testing and Variable Selection in Nonparametric Regression

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Hypothesis Testing
Variable Selection
Backward Elimination
Nonparametric Regression
False Discovery Rate
ANOVA-type tests

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael G Arkitas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Adam Smith, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Ying

Title:

New Models For Conditional Covariance Matrix

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

covariance estimation
smoothing spline
Cholesky decomposition
local linear regression
semi-parametric regression

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Lou, Lejia

Title:

Thresholded partial correlation approach for variable selection in linear models and partially linear models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Variable Selection
Linear Model
Partially Linear Model
Nonparametric Regression

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Luo, Wei

Title:

Efficient estimation and order determination for sufficient dimension reduction

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dimension reduction
order-determination
bootstrap
augmentation
semi-parametric
efficient estimation.

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Yang

Title:

Approaches to reduce and integrate data in structured and high-dimensional regression problems in Genomics

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Data integration
Genomics
Ordinary least squares
Structured data
Sufficient dimension reduction
Variable selection

File:

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Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Mary Poss, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Zhuying

Title:

Locally Stationary Quantile Regression For Inflation and Interest Rates

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Locally stationary model; Nonparametric estimation; Quantile reg

File:

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Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Artemiou, Andreas A

Title:

Topics on Supervised and Unsupervised Dimension Reduction

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Unitary invariance
Regression
Kernel principal components
Sufficient Dimension Reduction
Support Vector Machines

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Michael Akritas, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Adam Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Dong, Yuexiao

Title:

Dimension Reduction for Non-elliptically Distributed Predictors

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

central space
dimension reduction
solution space
non-ellipticity

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael G. Akritas, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Dennis K. J. Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Jun

Title:

Dimension reduction for functional data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dimension reduction
random operator
supervised machine learning
unsupervised machine learning
functional data analysis
handwriting data
speech recognition data
dimension reduction
random operator
supervised machine learning
unsupervised machine learning
functional data analysis
handwriting data
speech recognition data

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S. Altman, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Christopher Parker, Outside Member
Matthew Reimherr, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Songshan

Title:

TIME-VARYING EFFECT MODEL FOR STUDYING GROUP DIFFERENCE IN HEALTH BEHAVIOR

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Time varying-coefficient effect model

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Songshan

Title:

NEW STATISTICAL ANALYTIC TOOLS FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

High Dimensional Data
Feature Screening
Statistical Inference

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Outside Member

Author:

Kang, Hyun Bin

Title:

Functional Manifold Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Data Analysis
Shape Analysis
Object Oriented Data Analysis
Manifold Learning
Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space

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
Bing Li, Committee Member
Mark Shriver, Outside 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:

Li, Changcheng

Title:

Topics in High-dimensional Statistical Inference

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Hotelling T2 test
Multiple sample mean test
Projection test
Two-sample mean test
Causal structural learning
Causal discovery
Causal graphical models
D-separation set
Generalized Method of Moments

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

Nandy, Debmalya

Title:

COVARIATE INFORMATION: A NOVEL APPROACH TO SUFFICIENT DIMENSION REDUCTION & FEATURE SCREENING FOR ULTRAHIGH-DIMENSIONAL COVARIATES IN SUPERVISED PROBLEMS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Fisher information
Density information
Supervised problems
Sufficient dimension reduction
Feature screening
Ultrahigh dimension
Bootstrap

File:

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Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Weixin Yao, Special 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:

Liu, Shuo Shuo

Title:

Statistical Learning on High-Dimensional Multi-Source Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Transfer Learning
Multi-View Clustering
High-Dimensional Data
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xiang Zhu, Major Field Member
Lan Kong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Zhe

Title:

Inference Methods for High-Dimensional Data: A Focus On Different Hypothesis Testing Problems

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

statistical inference
high dimension
marginal coordinate hypothesis
sufficient dimension reduction
partial linear model
power enhancement
linear hypothesis

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Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Major Field Member
Ming Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Qi

Title:

Dimension Reduction and Graphical Models using Optimal Transport

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Sufficient dimension reduction;
Metric space-valued data;
Graphical model;
Optimal transport;

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lingzhou Xue, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ting He, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Tong, Zhaoxue

Title:

Robust Techniques for High-dimensional Data: Modern Approaches and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

feature screening
false discovery rate control
robust regression
and precision matrix estimation
feature screening
false discovery rate control
robust regression
precision matrix estimation
heavy-tailed data
model-free
strong oracle property
winsorization

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Ming Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

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:

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:

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:

Sanei, Sanam

Title:

Essays in HIV: Mapping the distribution of marginalized groups and analysis of ART treatment effectiveness across patient groups

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology
Key Population
Size Estimation
Generalized Linear Mixed-Effect Models (GLMM)
Bayesian Modeling
Mapping HIV Prevalence
Case-Control Sampling
Hidden Markov Models (HMM)

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Le Bao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Major Field Member
Lingzhou Xue, Major Field Member
Qiushi Chen, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Yu, Xiufan

Title:

Topics on power enhancement in high-dimensional hypothesis tests

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

power enhancement
high-dimensional tests
multi-factor pricing models
two-sample covariance tests
simultaneous tests

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Jingzhi Huang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Hanks, Program Head/Chair

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:

Hernandez Bejarano, Manuel

Title:

Density estimation for some semiparametric models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Density estimation
Functional convergence
Nonparametric kernel den- sity estimator
Nonparametric regression
Specification testing
Density estimation
Functional convergence
Nonparametric kernel density estimator
Nonparametric regression
Specification testing
ARCH models
Quantile regression

File:

Download PSU_Thesis_Document_2024_Manuel_Hernandez_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lingzhou Xue, Major Field Member
Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Major Field Member

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