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Author:: Wang, Luojun
Title:: The Joint Modeling of Recurrent Events and Other Failure Time Events
Graduate Program:: Biostatistics
Keywords:: survival analysis
joint modeling
semi-competing risks
recurrent events
acute kidney injury
tri-vairate Weibull
acute kidney injury
tri-variate Weibull
File:: Download Dissertation_LuojunWang.pdf
Committee Members:: Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Theodore Mauger, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member
Laura Carrel, Outside Member

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Author:: Gosik, Kirk D
Title:: STATISTICAL MODELS FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL SCREENING OF GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC EFFECTS
Graduate Program:: Biostatistics
Keywords:: variable-selection
gene-expression
eQTL
genetic-architecture
epigenetics
File:: Download Dissertation_KirkGosik.pdf
Committee Members:: Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Chinchilli, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member
James Broach, Outside Member

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Author:: Xu, Cong
Title:: JOINT MODELING OF A LONGITUDINAL BIOMARKER, RECURRENT EVENTS AND A TERMINAL EVENT IN A MATCHED STUDY
Graduate Program:: Biostatistics
Keywords:: Joint modeling
Frailty model
Survival analysis
Longitudinal biomarker
File:: Download Cong_Xu-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Wang, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member
William Brian Reeves, Outside Member

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Author:: Li, Zheng
Title:: Joint Modeling Recurrent Events and a Terminal Event with Frailty-copula Models
Graduate Program:: Biostatistics
Keywords:: Joint Frailty-copula Models
Bayesian Augmentation
Recurrent Events
Joint Frailty Model
File:: Download zheng_li.pdf
Committee Members:: Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ming Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Nasrollah Ghahramani, Committee Member
Feng Yue, Outside Member

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Author:: Li, Menghan
Title:: A LATENT CLASS APPROACH FOR JOINT MODELING OF CLINICAL OUTCOMES AND LONGITUDINAL BIOMARKERS SUBJECT TO DETECTION LIMITS
Graduate Program:: Biostatistics
Keywords:: JOINT MODELING;
MCEM;
BIOMARKER
File:: Download thesis__final_.pdf
Committee Members:: Lan Kong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lan Kong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
David Theodore Mauger, Committee Member
Xuemei Huang, Outside Member

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Author:: Tashakor, Elahe
Title:: L-STATISTICS OF ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCES FOR QUANTIFYING THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO VARIABLES
Graduate Program:: Biostatistics
Keywords:: Agreement
Concordance correlation coefficient
L-statistics
Robust estimation
File:: Download Dissertation_Elahe_Tashakor.pdf
Committee Members:: Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tonya Sharp King, Committee Member
Ming Wang, Committee Member
David Spencer Phelps, Outside Member

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Author:: Zhang, Ying
Title:: A MULTI-LEVEL MIXED-EFFECTS MODEL FOR INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT DATA META-ANALYSIS
Graduate Program:: Biostatistics
Keywords:: meta-analysis
individual participant data
longitudinal data
mixed-effects model
multi-level model
exponential family outcome
File:: Download Dissertation-Ying_Zhang_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Vernon M. Chinchilli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vernon M. Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lan Kong, Committee Member
David T. Mauger, Committee Member
Christopher N. Sciamanna, Outside Member

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Author:: Chen, Chixiang
Title:: Statistical Models for Recovering Dynamic Gene Networks from Static Data
Graduate Program:: Biostatistics
Keywords:: The Genotype-Tissue Expression
Disease progression
Network learning
Ordinary differential equations
Quasi-dynamic network
File:: Download CCX_Penn_State_University_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Joanna Floros, Outside Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Xiang Zhan, Committee Member
Arthur Steven Berg, Program Head/Chair
Ming Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Midya, Vishal
Title:: Frequentist and Bayesian hypothesis testing focusing on meaningful effect sizes
Graduate Program:: Biostatistics
Keywords:: Testing of Hypothesis
Bayes Factor
Bayesian Information Criterion
Effect Size
Type 2 Error
Interval Null Hypothesis
Type 1 Error
ROPE
File:: Download Penn_State_University_thesis___Vishal_Midya.pdf
Committee Members:: Jiangang Liao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jiangang Liao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vonn Andrew Walter, Committee Member
Pritish Mondal, Special Member
Arun Kumar Sharma, Outside Member
Arthur Steven Berg, Program Head/Chair
Arthur Steven Berg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arthur Steven Berg, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Qiu, Lin
Title:: Probabilistic Statistical Learning Methods for High-dimensional Multimodal Data
Graduate Program:: Biostatistics
Keywords:: Statistical Learning
High Dimension
Multimodal Data
Bayesian Statistics
File:: Download PhD_thesis_Lin__Qiu.pdf
Committee Members:: Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lan Kong, Committee Member
Xiang Zhan, Committee Member
Andrew David Patterson, Outside Member
Lin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Program Head/Chair
Lin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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