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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:

Download PennState_StatisticsPhDDissertation_Final_eTD_081619.pdf

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:

Download Ilias_Moysidis_-_Dissertation.pdf

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:

Download Thesis_BingyuanLiu.pdf

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:

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:

Download BenSheng-Dissertation.pdf

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:

Download Dissertation_Mengyan_final.pdf

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:

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:

Download jiawei_dissertation.pdf

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