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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:

Download DziakDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

You, Cheng

Title:

Machine Learning Methods in Portfolio Replication

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

machine learning
portfolio replication
LASSO
LARS
trading strategies
hidden Markov model
hierarchical modelling

File:

Download ChengYou-MasterThesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Ryder Morton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Schill, Thomas Michael

Title:

An Exploration of the Function-on-scalar Lasso

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

variable selection
LASSO
FS-LASSO
GWAS
functional linear models
Framingham heart study

File:

Download ThomasSchill-Thesis_final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sun, Wei

Title:

Feature Screening in Ultra-high Dimensional Survival Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Cox’s model
feature screening
LASSO
SCAD
ultra-high dimensional survival data analysis
Gail-Simon test

File:

Download THESIS__final.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Qunhua Li, Committee Member
Arthur Steven Berg, Special Member