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Author:

Kang, Doh Yung

Title:

CAUSAL INFERENCE BY SEMIPARAMETRIC IMPUTATION

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

estimating function
survey inference
imputation
Causal inference
missing data

File:

Download joseph-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member

Author:

KIM, DAEYOUNG

Title:

MIXTURE INFERENCE AT THE EDGE OF IDENTIFIABILITY

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Local identifiability
Asymptotic identifiability
Nonidentifiability
Finite mixture models
Estimation of parameters
Labelling confidence

File:

Download Dissertation_DaeyoungKim_.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member
James Z Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Antoniou, Efi Savvas

Title:

NONPARAMETRIC IMPUTATION AND (MID-) RANK TESTS FOR MIXED EFFECTS MODELS WITH MISSING DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kernel estimation
Nonparametric tests
Marginal nonparametric model
Nonparametric imputation
Missingness conditionally at random
Analysis of covariance
Nearest neighbor windows

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Linda Marie Collins, Committee Member

Author:

Kurum, Esra

Title:

ESTIMATION IN COVARIATE-ADJUSTED NONLINEAR REGRESSION

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Multiplicative effects
Local Polynomial Regression
Varying coefficient models
Nonlinear regression

File:

Download Thesis_by_EsraKurum.pdf

Committee Members:

Damla Senturk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Damla Senturk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hui, Guodong

Title:

Matrix Distances With their Application to Finding Directional Deviations from normality in High-Dimensional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

non-normal direction
quadratic distance
eigenanalysis
Fisher information
projection pursuit
mixture model

File:

Download phd_thesis_guodong_hui.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Hong

Title:

Contributions to Adatpive Web Sampling Designs

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

cost
adaptive sampling
sampling
adaptive web sampling
resampling
nonresponses

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steve K Thompson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Mosuk Chow, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Hyang Min

Title:

Variable Selection and Regularized Mixture Modeling for Clustering

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Modal EM
Ridgeline EM
Wrapper method
Aggregated distinctiveness
Gaussian mixture models
Covariance shrinkage
BIC-type penalized log-likelihood
Mixture model based clustering
Model regularization

File:

Download Hyang_Min_Lee-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jia Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jia Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Teng, Huei-Wen

Title:

BAYESIAN MIXTURE MODELS FOR DENSITY ESTIMATION

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

density estimation
Bayesian anlaysis
mixture models
Dirichlet process

File:

Download Wen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John C Liechty, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John C Liechty, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jung, Hyekyung

Title:

A Latent-Class Selection Model for Nonignorably Missing Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

multivariate incomplete data
nonignorable nonresponse
latent variable.

File:

Download PhD_HyekyungJung.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Walter Graham, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Bruce G. Lindsay, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Hyunsook

Title:

Two Topics: A Jackknife Maximum Likelihood Approach to Statistical Model Selection and a Convex Hull Peeling Depth Approach to Nonparametric Massive Multivariate Data Analysis with Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kullback-Leibler distance
information criterion
statistical model selection
jackknife
jackknife information criterion
bias reduction
maximum likelihood
unbiased estimation
non-nested model
computational geometry
convex hull
convex hull peeling
statistical data depth
nonparametric statistics
generalized quantile process
descriptive statistics
skewness
kurtosis
volume functional
convex hull level set
massive data
outlier detection
balloon plot
multivariate analysis

File:

Download hlee.pdf

Committee Members:

G Jogesh Babu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member