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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

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

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

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:

Zeng, Hui

Title:

Causal inference with a mediated proportional hazards regression model and a mediated accelerated failure time model

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics

Keywords:

mediation
direct and indirect effects
survival analysis

File:

Download dissertation_Hui_Zeng_pdf_file_updated.pdf

Committee Members:

Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Theodore Mauger, Committee Member
Ming Wang, Committee Member
Chad Edward Shenk, Outside Member
Arthur Berg, Program Head/Chair