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Author:

Boschi, Tobia

Title:

Data Registration and Feature Selection in Functional Regression: some methodological and computational developments

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Functional Linear Models
Feature Selection
Functional Registration

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Committee Members:

Marzia A Cremona, Special Member
Murali Haran, Major Field Member
Paul Medvedev, Outside Unit & Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Matthew Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Sterge, Nicholas

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL-STATISTICAL TRADEOFF IN APPOROXIMATE KERNEL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Statistics
Kernel Methods
Machine Learning
Principal Component Analysis
Approximation Methods

File:

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Committee Members:

John Harlim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Ethan Fang, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Strong, Emily

Title:

A Joint Model for Total and Age-Structured Negative Binomial Counts with Application to the COVID-19 Epidemic in Rhode Island

Graduate Program:

Statistics (MS)

Keywords:

COVID-19
Negative Binomial Counts

File:

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Berg, Committee Member
Murali Haran, 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:

Quach, Harris

Title:

Advances in Forward Sufficient Dimension Reduction Methods for Statistical Learning

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

ordinal data
functional data
classification
outer product of canonical gradients
tensor product of gradients
local linear function on function regression
k-means tuning

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Major Field Member
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Bing Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alexei Novikov, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Sheng, Tianhong

Title:

Statistical Learning with Conditional Independence and Graphical Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Conditional Independence
Graphical Models
Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
Cross-validation

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
David Hunter, Major Field Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Phadke, Sayali

Title:

Measurement, Assessment, and Improvement of Statistical Literacy in Relevant Contexts

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Statistics Education
Statistical Literacy
Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling
Context
Isomorphic Assessment

File:

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
David Hunter, Co-Chair, Dissertation Advisor and Minor Member
Dennis Pearl, Major Field Member
Matthew Beckman, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kari Morgan, Special Member
Jonna Kulikowich, Outside Unit & Field Member

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:

Rios, Nicholas

Title:

Contributions to Mixture Experiments When Order of Addition is Important

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Design of Experiments
Mixture Experiments
Order of Addition
Threshold Accepting

File:

Download NRIOS_DISSERTATION_FINALEDIT.pdf

Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Special Member
Murali Haran, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kelling, Claire

Title:

Advances in Spatial Models for Urban Crime

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

spatial statistics
point process
criminology
policing

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Committee Members:

Corina Antohi Graif, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gizem Korkmaz, Special Member
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Co-Chair of Committee
Murali Haran, Co-Chair, Dissertation Advisor and Minor Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Ephraim Hanks, Major Field Member