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Author:

Liu, Changlei

Title:

Supporting Multi-Missions In Wireless Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

sensor network
multi-mission
wireless
approximation algorithm
coverage
landmine
monitoring

File:

Download Changlei-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Runze Li, 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:

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:

Wang, Guiling

Title:

Dependable Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

sensor networks
mobile sensor
sensor deployment
motion planing
sensor security
pairwise key establishment

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F Laporta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Piotr Berman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Srimat Chakradhar, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Runze Li, 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:

Song, Hosin

Title:

NONPARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND SEMI-NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF FIRST-PRICE AUCTIONS

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

First-price Auctions
Nonparametric Identification
Semi-nonparametric Estimation
Sieve
Simulated Integrated Conditional Moment
Simulated Integrated Moment

File:

Download Hosin_mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Herman J Bierens, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Quang H Vuong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Coenraad Arnout P Pinkse, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Haiqing

Title:

Discrete Choice Models with Endogeneity

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Bayesian Nash Equilibrium
Endogeneity
Discrete Choice Model
Monotone Strategy
Triangular System

File:

Download thesis_Haiqing_Xu.pdf

Committee Members:

Joirs Pinkse And Sung Jae Jun, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Coenraad Arnout P Pinkse, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sung Jae Jun, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Herman J Bierens, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Barry William Ickes, Committee Member

Author:

Martin, Jay Dean

Title:

A Methodology for Evaluating System-Level Uncertainty in the Conceptual Design of Complex Multidisciplinary Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

conceptual design
uncertainty assessment
sensitivity analysis
kriging models

File:

Download JayDMartin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Member
Mark Thomas Traband, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

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:

Yang, Jingyun

Title:

Measurement of Agreement for Categorical Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

multivariate kappa
kappa
Agreement

File:

Download dissertation0613.pdf

Committee Members:

Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Damla Senturk, Committee Member
Tonya Sharp King, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Jiahan

Title:

THE BAYESIAN LASSO, BAYESIAN SCAD AND BAYESIAN GROUP LASSO WITH APPLICATIONS TO GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

lasso
variable selection
Bayesian approach
high-dimensional data

File:

Download JiahanLi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Kion

Title:

THE RECENT HISTORY FUNCTIONAL LINEAR MODEL AND ITS EXTENSION TO SPARSE LONGITUDINAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Principal Component Analysis
Recent History Functional Linear Models
Longitudinal Data Analysis
Functional Linear Models
Functional Data Analysis
Varying Coefficient Models

File:

Download KionKim-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Damla Senturk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Damla Senturk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Linda Marie Collins, Committee Member

Author:

Das, Kiranmoy

Title:

SEMI-PARAMETRIC BAYESIAN FUNCTIONAL MAPPING WITH IRREGULAR SPARSE LONGITUDINAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Longitudinal data
functional mapping
MCMC

File:

Download Das_Kiranmoy_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Peter Cm Molenaar, Committee Member

Author:

Gabrielli, María Florencia

Title:

Structural Analysis of Auction Models

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

first--price autions
econometrics
collusion
structural approach

File:

Download Thesis_MFGabrielli.pdf

Committee Members:

Coenraad Arnout P Pinkse, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Coenraad Arnout P Pinkse, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Herman J Bierens, Committee Member
Sung Jae Jun, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Minwoo

Title:

EFFICIENT MEAN-SHIFT BELIEF PROPAGATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN COMPUTER VISION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MRF
Inference
Graphical Model
Belief Propagation
Computer Vision

File:

Download MinwooFinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yanxi Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanxi Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert T Collins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Yoo, Mina

Title:

MEASURES OF AGREEMENT IN METHOD COMPARISON STUDIES FOR INTENSIVE LONGITUDINAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

concordance correlation coefficient
varying coefficient models
partially linear models
mixed effects models
measurement agreement
intensive longitudinal data

File:

Download MinaYoo-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mosuk Chow, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Mian

Title:

NONPARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES IN FINITE MIXTURE OF REGRESSION MODELS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

mixture of regression models
nonparametric regression
EM algorithm
mixture of Gaussian processes

File:

Download Dissertation_MianHuang.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Hoben Thomas, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Min Kyung

Title:

On Dimension Folding of Matrix or Array Valued Statistical Objects

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kronecker Envelop
Directional Regression
Sliced Inverse Regression
Sliced Average Variance Estimate

File:

Download Minkyung-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Po-Chun

Title:

Experience-Based Cyber Security Analytics

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cyber Situation Awareness
Intrusion Detection
Situation Recognition

File:

Download Po-Chun_Chen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Rong

Title:

MULTIPLE IMPUTATION FOR MISSING ITEMS IN MULTI-THEMED QUESTIONNAIRES

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

factor model
EM algorithm
Markov chain Monte Carlo
incomplete data

File:

Download Rong_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Schafer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
D Wayne Osgood, Committee Member

Author:

Root, Tammy Lynn

Title:

LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS WITH INFORMATIVE PRIORS

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

latent class analysis
small sample
identification
Bayesian methodology
informative priors

File:

Download Root_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Linda Marie Collins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leann L Birch, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Rhonda Belue, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Tianjiang

Title:

Abstract Principal Component Analysis And Applications To Model Reduction

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Banach operator algebra
standing and traveling waves
signal decomposition
extraction of transient modes
abstract principal component analysis
data mining

File:

Download Li-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiang Du, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiang Du, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Committee Member
Anna L Mazzucato, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Yao, Weixin

Title:

On using mixtures and modes of mixtures in data analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

robust regression
label switching
mixtures

File:

Download thesisdraftnew.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Yao, Xiaopan

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF THE GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON HYPERTENSION (HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE) IN AFRICAN AMERICANS

Graduate Program:

Genetics

Keywords:

hypertension

File:

Download Xiaopan_Yao.pdf

Committee Members:

George Patrick Vogler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David John Vandenbergh, Committee Member
Keith Whitfield, Committee Member
Karen Boomer, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Yan

Title:

Local Modeling For Data With Autocorrelations

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Multivariate
Autoregressions
Nonoparametric models
Variable Selection

File:

Download Yan_Li_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Yang

Title:

A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE REGULATION AND BEHAVIOR OF WEB CRAWLERS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

botseer
ethics
bias
web crawler
robots.txt

File:

Download ysun-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Z Wang, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yang

Title:

Varying-Coefficient Models: New Models, Inference Procedures, and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Monte Carlo simulation
semi-parametric
semiparametric
nonparametric regression
kernel regression
local likelihood
generalized likelihood ratio test
cross validation
Time-varying-coefficient model
Nonlinear
Local Linear
Varying-coefficient Model
forecasting
bandwidth
bootstraping
bootstrap

File:

Download phdthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Damla Senturk, 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:

Jiang, Yuejiao

Title:

Estimation and forecasting methodologies for nonparametric regression models via dynamic linear models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

nonparametric regression models
dynamic linear models

File:

Download YuejiaoJiangdissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavković, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Wan, Yuanyuan

Title:

INTEGRATION BASED METHODS FOR ECONOMETRIC MODELS

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

cube root
Integration based methods
moment inequality

File:

Download YuanyuanWan_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joris Pinkse And Sung Jae Jun, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joris Pinkes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sung Jae Jun, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Herman J Bierens, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Yi

Title:

Towards Compromise Resilient Wireless Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Computer Science
Sensor Networks
Security
Node Compromise

File:

Download YiYang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Zhijian

Title:

Essays in Financial Economics

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Asset pricing
data snooping
market efficiency
out-of-sample test
behavioral finance

File:

Download ZhijianHuang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jingzhi Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeremy Ko, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jean Helwege, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Zhe

Title:

New modeling Procedures for Functional Data in Computer Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

functional linear model
functional ANOVA decomposition
multivariate kriging
computer experiment
semi-varying coefficient model
back-fitting algorithm

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
John Fricks, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

Zambom, Adriano Zanin

Title:

Hypothesis Testing and Variable Selection in Nonparametric Regression

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Hypothesis Testing
Variable Selection
Backward Elimination
Nonparametric Regression
False Discovery Rate
ANOVA-type tests

File:

Download Adriano_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael G Arkitas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Adam Smith, Special Member

Author:

Kurum, Esra

Title:

Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Binary and Continuous Responses: New Models, Statistical Procedures and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Joint Modeling
Longitudinal data analysis
Varying coefficient models
Partially linear models

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Special Member

Author:

Zhong, Wei

Title:

feature screening and variable selection for ultrahigh dimensional data analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

ultrahigh dimensionality
distance correlation
feature screening
sure screening property
variable selection

File:

Download PhD-Dissertation-Wei-Zhong-2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Siwei

Title:

Modeling Psychophysiological Processes in dyadic interactions

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

dyadic analysis
psychophysiology
cortisol
time series
electrodermal activity

File:

Download Liu_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael J Rovine, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael J Rovine, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Cm Molenaar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Mc Hale, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Matthew Goodwin, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Jingyuan

Title:

Statistical Methods for Different Ultrahigh Dimensional Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

ultrahigh dimension
varying coefficient model
partially linear model
feature screening

File:

Download dissertation_w_vita.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Liwang Cui, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Ying

Title:

New Models For Conditional Covariance Matrix

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

covariance estimation
smoothing spline
Cholesky decomposition
local linear regression
semi-parametric regression

File:

Download Thesis_Ying.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Seonjin

Title:

Three essays on nonparametric inference for longitudinal data and time series data.

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Locally stationary process
Longitudinal data
Measurement errors
Nonparametric inference
Quantile regression
Time series

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Special Member

Author:

Zhu, Yeying

Title:

Data-adaptive Approaches to Modeling Propensity Scores in Causal Inference Problems

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

causal inference
data-adaptive
data mining
observational studies
propensity scores

File:

Download Yeying-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Nianqing

Title:

Identification, Estimation and Testing in Empirical Games

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Discrete Games
First-price Auctions
Incomplete Information
Bayesian Nash Equilibrium
Monotone Strategy

File:

Download dissertation_Nianqing_Liu_2013-07-25.pdf

Committee Members:

Quang Vuong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sung Jae Jun, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Isabelle Perrigne, Special Member
Robert Clifford Marshall, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xiaoye

Title:

Three Essays on Non-stationary Time Series

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Modulated Stationary
Self Normalization
Change-point Test
Long-run Variance
Autocovariance
Time-varying exogenous AR model
Sieve-wild Bootstrap

File:

Download phdsample2_copy.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Special Member

Author:

Lou, Lejia

Title:

Thresholded partial correlation approach for variable selection in linear models and partially linear models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Variable Selection
Linear Model
Partially Linear Model
Nonparametric Regression

File:

Download LejiaLou-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Guo

Title:

Use of radar Doppler spectra in Arctic mixed-phase cloud studies

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

mixed-phase cloud
phase partitioning
radar Doppler spectra

File:

Download Dissertation_Guo_Yu.pdf

Committee Members:

Johannes Verlinde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Johannes Verlinde, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Jerry Y Harrington, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Shi, Zhan

Title:

Risk, Ambiguity, and Anomalies in the Fixed Income Market

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Knightian uncertainty
asset pricing
equity premium
term premium
credit spreads

File:

Download ZhanShi_Dissertation_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jingzhi Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Heber Farnsworth, Committee Member
Joel Matthew Vanden, Committee Member
Jared Williams, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Cai, Xizhen

Title:

model selection and survival analysis with application to large time-varying networks

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

penalized likelihood
proportional odds models
profile likelihood
partial likelihood
case control.

File:

Download Dissertation_with_vita.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Marcel Salathe, Committee Member

Author:

Luo, Wei

Title:

Efficient estimation and order determination for sufficient dimension reduction

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dimension reduction
order-determination
bootstrap
augmentation
semi-parametric
efficient estimation.

File:

Download dissertation_-_Wei_Luo.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member

Author:

Poterjoy, Jonathan

Title:

Ensemble and hybrid four-dimensional data assimilation for tropical cyclone analysis and prediction

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Data assimilation
Kalman filtering
tropical cyclones

File:

Download JonPoterjoy-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Fuqing Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Jenni Evans, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Xiang Yu Huang, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Xiaoyu

Title:

Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data: New Models, Computing Techniques and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Joint modeling
Longitudinal Study
Survival Analysis
EM-algorithm
Nonparametric

File:

Download Dissertation_X.Liu_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member

Author:

ZHU, XIAOTIAN

Title:

Non-Parametric Finite Multivariate Mixture Models with Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

mixture model
conditional independence
nonparametric estimation
penalized smoothed likelihood
independent component analysis

File:

Download XTZ_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Russell Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
John C Liechty, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

YANG , HANYU

Title:

Statistical Models for Scalar Response with Longitudinal Covariates

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

longitudinal study
functional data
nonparametric regression
measurement error
generalized linear model
zero-inflated count

File:

Download HanyuYang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member

Author:

Trail, Jessica Brooke

Title:

Dynamic Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data: New Models, Statistical Procedures, and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

intensive longitudinal data
dynamic systems
time-varying effects

File:

Download JessicaTrailDissertation3.pdf

Committee Members:

Linda Marie Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Fricks, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

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

Author:

Yu, Ye

Title:

New Procedures for Cox's Model with High Dimensional Predicotrs

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Cox's model
Partial Likelihood
ultrahigh dimensional survival data
model selection consistency
Penalized Likelihood

File:

Download Ye_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member

Author:

Cho, Youngjoo

Title:

Semiparametric Analysis of Failure Time Data in the Presence of Dependent Censoring

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Bivariate Data
Failure Times
Perturbation Method
Resampling
U-statistics
Causal Inference
Observational Study

File:

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Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Hongcheng

Title:

nonsmooth optimization with applications in network design and machine learning

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Nonsmooth optimization
machine learning
network design
folded concave penalty
sparse recovery

File:

Download HongchengLiu_new-Dissertation-copy.pdf

Committee Members:

Tao Yao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Terry Lee Friesz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Yuan

Title:

Projection Test for High-dimensional Mean Vectors with Optimal Direction

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

High-dimensional data
Hotelling's T2 test
Projection test
One-sample problem
Two-sample problem

File:

Download YuanHuang_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Hsieh, Tsung-yu

Title:

ENTROPY OF SPEED AND ACCURACY TRADE-OFF IN SPACE-TIME

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

Speed-accuracy trade-off
movement entropy
space-time constraints
force-time constraints
isometric force task

File:

Download Dissertation_final_07012015.pdf

Committee Members:

Karl Maxim Newell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Maxim Newell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Henry Challis, Committee Member
Kristina A Neely, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yaqun

Title:

Inference of Gene Regulatory Network Based on Gene Expression Dynamics in Response to Environmental Signals

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Gene Regulatory Network
Gene Expression
Gene Cluster
DBN
Ordinary Differential Equation
Gene-Environment Interaction

File:

Download YaqunWang-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Ningtao

Title:

A Block Mixture Model To Map Eqtls For Gene Clustering

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

block mixture model
eQTL
gene cluster

File:

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Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Won Chul

Title:

Nonparametric Independence Screening And Test-based Screening Via The Variance Of The Regression Function

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Sure independence screening
test-based screening
Ultrahigh dimensionality

File:

Download WonchulSong_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Yang

Title:

Approaches to reduce and integrate data in structured and high-dimensional regression problems in Genomics

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Data integration
Genomics
Ordinary least squares
Structured data
Sufficient dimension reduction
Variable selection

File:

Download YangLiu-Dissertation_081615.pdf

Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Mary Poss, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Bo

Title:

A Protocol-Based, Inverse-Model-Driven Methodology for Building Auditing and Forward Energy Model Formulation

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Inverse model
energy model
calibration
measurement & verification
sub-metering
variable selection
benchmark
audit

File:

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Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chinemelu Jidenka Anumba, Committee Member
Stephen James Treado, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Zhuying

Title:

Locally Stationary Quantile Regression For Inflation and Interest Rates

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Locally stationary model; Nonparametric estimation; Quantile reg

File:

Download zhuying-Dissertation__1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Chu, Wanghuan

Title:

Feature Screening For Ultra-high Dimensional Longitudinal Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Feature screening
ultra-high dimensional data
longitudinal genetic study

File:

Download Chu_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Reimherr, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Huihui

Title:

Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of k-Double Auctions

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Double Auctions
Bargaining
Nonparametric Identification
Kernel Estimation
Boundary Correction

File:

Download Huihui-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joris Pinkse, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joris Pinkse, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sung Jae Jun, Committee Member
Peter Newberry, Committee Member
Runze Li, Outside Member
Sung Jae Jun, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Artemiou, Andreas A

Title:

Topics on Supervised and Unsupervised Dimension Reduction

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Unitary invariance
Regression
Kernel principal components
Sufficient Dimension Reduction
Support Vector Machines

File:

Download Dissertation_doc.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Michael Akritas, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Adam Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Kai, Bo

Title:

Robust Nonparametric and Semiparametric Modeling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Nonparametric Smoothing
Semiparametric Modeling
Robust Statistics
Quantile Regression

File:

Download PhDThesis_Bo_Kai.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R. Hunter, Committee Member
Damla Senturk, Committee Member
Vernon M. Chinchilli, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Junyi

Title:

Model Misspecification and Feature Screening for Ultrahigh Dimensional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Covariate-adjusted approach; generalized linear re

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi Altman, Committee Member
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Hunter David, Committee Member
Ping Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Lu

Title:

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE REGIME SWITCHING COVARIANCE MODEL

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dynamic covariance
state space model
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
bayesian analysis
stochastic volatility
time series analysis

File:

Download Lu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Liechty, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Timothy Simin, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member

Author:

Dong, Yuexiao

Title:

Dimension Reduction for Non-elliptically Distributed Predictors

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

central space
dimension reduction
solution space
non-ellipticity

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael G. Akritas, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Dennis K. J. Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Taoufik, Bahaeddine

Title:

FUNCTIONAL DATA BASED INFERENCE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY FINANCIAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Data
Nonlinear Functional Regression
Cross-section of returns
Cumulative intraday returns
Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces

File:

Download Dissertation_B_Taoufik.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
John C Liechty, Outside Member

Author:

Xu, Zhanxiong

Title:

Efficient parameter estimation methods using quantile regression in heteroscedastic models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

quantile regression
heteroscedastic models
optimal weighting
composite quantile regression

File:

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Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Kevin Haeseung

Title:

Statistical Learning of Complex Large-Scale Dynamic Systems

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistical learning
Model-based clustering
Dynamic networks
Graphical model
EM algorithm
Variational inference

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R. Hunter, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Nanyin Zhang, Outside Member
Mark S. Handcock, Special Member

Author:

Song, Jun

Title:

Dimension reduction for functional data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dimension reduction
random operator
supervised machine learning
unsupervised machine learning
functional data analysis
handwriting data
speech recognition data
dimension reduction
random operator
supervised machine learning
unsupervised machine learning
functional data analysis
handwriting data
speech recognition data

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S. Altman, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Christopher Parker, Outside Member
Matthew Reimherr, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Dong

Title:

On some problems in Lagrangian Dynamics and Finsler Geometry

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

KAM theory
Finsler metric
duel lens map Hamiltonian flow
perturbation
metric entropy
duel lens map
Hamiltonian flow
perturbation
metric entropy

File:

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Committee Members:

Dmitri Yu Burago, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dmitri Yu Burago, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Federico Juan Rodriguez Hertz, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Committee Member
Runze Li, Outside Member

Author:

Ye, Jingyi

Title:

New Statistical Procedures for Analysis of HIV Data and High Dimensional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

HIV
prevalence and incidence
incidence assay data
refitted cross-validation
high dimension data
varying coefficient model
varying error variance

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Le Bao, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Outside Member

Author:

Ni, Jun

Title:

THREE ESSAYS ON QUANTITATIVE FINANCE

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

VIX modeling
Bond premia prediction
Asset allocation

File:

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Committee Members:

Jingzhi Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anna L Mazzucato, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Committee Member
Runze Li, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Chuan-Sheng

Title:

SEMIPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION AND INFERENCE FOR CONDITIONAL VALUE-AT-RISK AND EXPECTED SHORTFALL

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Bootstrap
Conditional expected shortfall
Conditional Value-at-Risk
Nonlinear time series
Quantile regression
Semiparametric methods

File:

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Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Outside Member

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:

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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

Author:

Yang, Songshan

Title:

NEW STATISTICAL ANALYTIC TOOLS FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

High Dimensional Data
Feature Screening
Statistical Inference

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Outside Member

Author:

Petrovich, Justin Peter

Title:

Functional Principal Component Analysis and Sparse Functional Regression

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

functional data analysis
sparse functional data
FPCA
scalar-on-function regression

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Outside Member
Carrie Daymont, Special Member

Author:

Kang, Hyun Bin

Title:

Functional Manifold Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Data Analysis
Shape Analysis
Object Oriented Data Analysis
Manifold Learning
Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Mark Shriver, Outside Member

Author:

Xie, Yue

Title:

On addressing nonconvexity, stochasticity and complementarity in mathematical optimization

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

nonconvex optimization
stochastic optimization
statistical learning
algorithm
variational inequality
robust optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Uday V Shanbhag, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Uday V Shanbhag, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Runze Li, Outside Member
Ethan Fang, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Changcheng

Title:

Topics in High-dimensional Statistical Inference

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Hotelling T2 test
Multiple sample mean test
Projection test
Two-sample mean test
Causal structural learning
Causal discovery
Causal graphical models
D-separation set
Generalized Method of Moments

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Xue

Title:

HIGH DIMENSIONAL STATISTICAL LEARNING AND DECISION MAKING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

High Dimensional Learning
Statistical Learning
Decision Making
Optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Tao Yao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tao Yao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Wanjun

Title:

New Statistical Tools for High-dimensional Data Modeling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

High-dimensional data
Hypothesis testing
Feature screening
Regularized method

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Ling

Title:

Procedures for Feature Screening and Interaction Identification in High-dimensional Data Modelling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Sure Joint ScreeningFeature Screening
Interaction Identification
``King'' Variable
Interaction Types
Iteratively Kings' Forests
Feature Screening
Interaction Identification
Iteratively Kings' Forests
Sure Joint Screening
Cox Model

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Mirshani, Ardalan

Title:

Regularization Methods In Functional Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Data
Differential Privacy
Hilbert Space
Variable Selection
Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space
Oracle Property
Elastic Net
Smooth Estimate
Density Estimation

File:

Download PhD_Thesis__Ardalan_Mirshani_.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Qiyuan

Title:

Examining the Effects of Learners’ Background and Social Network Position on Content-Related Interaction via the MOOC Platform

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

MOOCs
Interaction
Machine Learning
SEM
Social Network Analysis
Online Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Priya Sharma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Priya Sharma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roy Clariana, Committee Member
Simon Hooper, Committee Member
Runze Li, Outside Member

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:

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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:

Subramanian, Anita

Title:

THE EFFECT OF PRENATAL VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION ON MATERNAL BLOOD PRESSURE AND PLACENTAL ANGIOGENESIS IN BANGLADESH

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Pregnancy
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
Placental Growth Factor
Angiogenic Factors
Vitamin D
Placental Villi
Systolic Blood Pressure
Diastolic Blood Pressure

File:

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Committee Members:

Alison Diane Gernand, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alison Diane Gernand, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiang Gao, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Francisco Javier Diaz, Outside Member
Daniel E. Roth, Special Member
Laura E Murray-Kolb, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Brashear, Awtum

Title:

Next Generation Sequencing In the Understanding of Neglected Malaria Parasites

Graduate Program:

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Keywords:

Malaria
Genomics
Transcriptomics
RNA Sequencing
Southeast Asia
China
Myanmar
Thailand
Border
Plasmodium vivax
Plasmodium ovale
Antigenic Variation
Drug Resistance
Anti-Malarial Resistance

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margarita Maria Lopez-Uribe, Committee Member
Maciej F Boni, Committee Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Member
Liwang Cui, Special Member
Margherita Teresa-Anna Cantorna, Program Head/Chair

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

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:

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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:

Wu, Min Chun

Title:

Convex Sensing: Topological Approaches to Nonlinear Dimension Inference

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

convex sensing
nonlinear dimension inference
topological data analysis
persistence homology
applied topology
Dowker complex
probabilistic model
directed complex
linear complex
complex of injective words
neuroscience
olfactory systems
Betti curves
convex sensing
nonlinear dimension inference
topological data analysis
persistence homology
applied topology
Dowker complex
probabilistic model
directed complex
linear complex
complex of injective words
neuroscience
olfactory systems
Betti curves

File:

Download minchunwu-diss.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Case, Major Field Member
Carina Curto, Major Field Member
Vladimir Itskov, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carina Curto, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Srinivasan, Arun

Title:

Topics on High-Dimensional Statistical Methods for Compositional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

compositional data analysis
robust statistics
human microbiome
high-dimensional statistics
covariance estimation
knockoff filter
variable selection
tyler's m-estimator
huber's m-estimator

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiang Zhan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Major Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Major Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Dou, Nan

Title:

FOOD INSECURITY AND MENTAL HEALTH DISPARITIES AMONG VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

food insecurity
Hispanic minorities
depression
stress
social support
longitudinal study
Food insecurity
Mental health
Heart rate variability
Vulnerable populations

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Committee Members:

Laura Murray-Kolb, Major Field Member
Xiang Gao, Major Field Member
Muzi Na, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Gregory Shearer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies