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241. Theoretical and Applied Problems in Partially Private Data

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Author:
Seeman, Jeremy
Title:
Theoretical and Applied Problems in Partially Private Data
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
statistical data privacy
missing data
bayesian computation
computational social science
science and technology studies
File:
Download dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Major Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Outside Unit & Field Member

243. Advances in Stochastic Models for Animal Movement and Assessment of Attitudes Toward Probability

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Open Access
Author:
Eisenhauer, Elizabeth
Title:
Advances in Stochastic Models for Animal Movement and Assessment of Attitudes Toward Probability
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
Stochastic Differential Equations
Animal Movement
Statistics Education
Attitudes
File:
Download Submitted-Eisenhauer-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Stephen Berg, Major Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Beckman, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Frances Buderman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

244. Statistical Methods for Non-Linear Modeling in Functional Data

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Open Access
Author:
Rao, Aniruddha Rajendra
Title:
Statistical Methods for Non-Linear Modeling in Functional Data
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
Functional Data
Neural Network
Deep Learning
Non-Linear Modeling
Imputation
File:
Download Defense_Document_Aniruddha.pdf
Committee Members:
Lin Lin, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jia Li, Major Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Hanks, Program Head/Chair

245. Everyone Counts: Advanced Methods for Estimating Marginalized Populations

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Author:
Laga, Ian
Title:
Everyone Counts: Advanced Methods for Estimating Marginalized Populations
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
HIV
Key Population
Bayesian Modeling
Small Area Estimation
Prevalence Mapping
Size Estimation
Aggregated Relational Data
File:
Download Ian_Laga_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Ashton Verdery, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiaoyue Niu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Le Bao, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hyungsuk Tak, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

246. Problems of Discrete Inference with Noisy or Incomplete Data

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Open Access
Author:
Hehir, Jonathan
Title:
Problems of Discrete Inference with Noisy or Incomplete Data
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
differential privacy
community detection
spectral clustering
distinct counting
data sketching
File:
Download hehir-dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
David Hunter, Major Field Member
Xiaoyue Niu, Dissertation Advisor
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Outside Unit & Field Member

247. New Statistical Tools for Independence and Conditional Independence

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Open Access
Author:
Cai, Zhanrui
Title:
New Statistical Tools for Independence and Conditional Independence
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
Online leaerning
dimension reduction
test of independence
test of conditional independence
causal discovery
File:
Download Zhanrui.pdf
Committee Members:
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Major Field Member
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Ming Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

248. Advances in Spatial Statistics and Inference Methods for Markov Population Models

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Open Access
Author:
Walder, Adam
Title:
Advances in Spatial Statistics and Inference Methods for Markov Population Models
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
Spatial Generalized Mixed Models
Bayesian Privacy
Markov Population Models
Laplace Approximations
Laplace Moving Average Models
File:
Download AdamWalder-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Matthew Ferrari, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Major Field Member
Murali Haran, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

249. Novel methods and application of Bayesian hierarchical regression models

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Open Access
Author:
Zhang, Amy
Title:
Novel methods and application of Bayesian hierarchical regression models
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
Bayesian models
Bayesian hierarchical regression
Approximate cross-validation
Information pooling
Statistics
File:
Download Thesis_AZhang_1005.pdf
Committee Members:
David Hunter, Major Field Member
Xiaoyue Niu, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Le Bao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Michael J. Daniels, Special Member

252. STATISTICAL SHAPE ANALYSIS USING DEFORMETRICA : ESTIMATING MEAN SHAPE AND GEODESIC SHAPE TRAJECTORY

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Author:
Acharjee, Mithun
Title:
STATISTICAL SHAPE ANALYSIS USING DEFORMETRICA : ESTIMATING MEAN SHAPE AND GEODESIC SHAPE TRAJECTORY
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
Statistical Shape Analysis
Atlas Model
Geodesic Regression
Shape Trajectory
Mean Shape
Deformetrica
Facebase
File:
Download mka_final_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jia Li, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

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

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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
Keywords:
COVID-19
Negative Binomial Counts
File:
Download MS_Thesis_Emily_Strong.pdf
Committee Members:
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Berg, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair

255. Assessing Classification Uncertainty On Astronomical Objects With Measurement Error

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Open Access
Author:
Shy, Sarah
Title:
Assessing Classification Uncertainty On Astronomical Objects With Measurement Error
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
Bayesian posterior predictive distribution
catalog data
quasar
random forest
support vector machine
File:
Download Shy_MastersThesis010322.pdf
Committee Members:
Hyungsuk Tak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Member
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
G. Jogesh Babu, Committee Member

256. A Bayesian Segmented Linear Regression Model to Observe Breakfast Canyon Patterns in Honeybee Hive Weight Data

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Open Access
Author:
Yaukey, Francesca
Title:
A Bayesian Segmented Linear Regression Model to Observe Breakfast Canyon Patterns in Honeybee Hive Weight Data
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
Segmented Linear Regression
Bayesian Statistics
Honeybee Ecology
MCMC Algorithm
Time Series
File:
Download Francesca_Thesis_Final_Version_3.pdf
Committee Members:
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Berg, Committee Member
Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen Berg, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

257. Model Agnostic Regularization via Data Augmentation and Explainable Ensembles

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Open Access
Author:
Pisztora, Vincent
Title:
Model Agnostic Regularization via Data Augmentation and Explainable Ensembles
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Data Augmentation
Semi-Supervised Learning
Explainability
Interpretability
XAI
File:
Download Dissertation_Pisztora_PSU.pdf
Committee Members:
David Hunter, Major Field Member
Sharon Huang, Outside Field Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jia Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

258. Cross-Species Prediction of Transcription Factor Binding

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Author:
Agarwala, Vandana
Title:
Cross-Species Prediction of Transcription Factor Binding
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
Bioinformatics
Deep Learning
Gene Regulation
Domain Adaptation
Transfer Learning
Computational Biology
Machine Learning
File:
Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Shaun Mahony, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qunhua Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xiang Zhu, Committee Member

259. Addressing Issues of Degeneracy and Phase Transition in Exponential-Family Random Graph Models via Tapering

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Open Access
Author:
Landon, Edward
Title:
Addressing Issues of Degeneracy and Phase Transition in Exponential-Family Random Graph Models via Tapering
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
ERGM
maximum entropy
Ising model
bimodality
maximum likelihood estimation
File:
Download EdwardLandon_Thesis_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
David Hunter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Schweinberger, Committee Member
Runze Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

260. Minimax Optimal Spectral Regularized Kernel Hypothesis Tests

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Author:
Hagrass, Omar
Title:
Minimax Optimal Spectral Regularized Kernel Hypothesis Tests
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Keywords:
maximum mean discrepancy
Two-sample test
reproducing kernel Hilbert space
reproducing kernel Hilbert space
covariance operator
U-statistic
Bernstein’s inequality
minimax separation
permutation test
spectral regularization
Goodness-of-fit test
kernel Stein discrepancy
adaptivity
adaptivity
wild bootstrap
File:
Download Omar_Hagrass_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Necdet Aybat, Outside Unit & Field Member
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Special Member
Zoltan Szabo, Special Member