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Author:

Hummel, Ruth M

Title:

IMPROVING ESTIMATION FOR EXPONENTIAL-FAMILY RANDOM GRAPH MODELS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

composite likelihood
penalized likelihood
pseudolikelihood
maximum likelihood estimation
exponential random graph model
bias correction
Mean value parameterization
%Maximum likelihood estimation
parameter estimation
Markov chain Monte Carlo
Exponential family random graph model
contrastive divergence
exponential families
convex hull

File:

Download RuthMHummel-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Russell Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Scott David Gest, 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:

Goldstein, Joshua Randall

Title:

Compartmental, Spatial, and Point Process Models for Infectious Diseases

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

infectious disease models
SIR models
spatial point processes
Gaussian processes
Markov chain Monte Carlo

File:

Download Goldstein_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Fricks, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Jaewoo

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR MODELS WITH INTRACTABLE NORMALIZING FUNCTIONS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Markov chain Monte Carlo
doubly intractable distributions
exponen- tial random graph models
Markov point processes
importance sampling
Gaussian processes
non-Gaussian spatial data
dimension reduction
Monte Carlo maximum likelihood

File:

Download JParkThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Le Bao, Committee Member
Benjamin Adam Shaby, Committee Member
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Outside Member