Graduate Program: Statistics / Access Level: open_access

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Author:: Johnston, Ann
Title:: Register based human population size estimation: a geometric perspective toward assessing sensitivity to unverifiable independence assumptions
Graduate Program:: Statistics
Keywords:: Log-linear models
Capture-recapture
Sensitivity analysis
Data integration
Official statistics
File:: Download AnnJohnston-MSThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Lee, Seiyon
Title:: Computational Methods for Hierarchical Spatial Models and Ice Sheet Model Calibration
Graduate Program:: Statistics
Keywords:: Spatial Statistics
Zero-inflated spatial data
Computer model calibration
sampling importance resampling
Basis Representation
computational statistics
uncertainty quantification
File:: Download SeiyonBenLee_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ben Shaby, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Nascimento, Mauricio
Title:: Statistical Methods For Spatial And Multivariate Spatial Extreme Values
Graduate Program:: Statistics
Keywords:: Extreme Values
Dirichlet Mixture
Angular Distribution
Scale Mixture
File:: Download Dissertation_V2.pdf
Committee Members:: Benjamin A. Shaby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin A. Shaby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Lynn Lin, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Koch, Hillary
Title:: Statistical methods for the analysis of multi-condition large-scale genomic data
Graduate Program:: Statistics
Keywords:: large-scale inference
statistical genomics
mixture models
Gaussian process
composite likelihood
empirical Bayes
File:: Download KochDiss.pdf
Committee Members:: Qunhua Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qunhua Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Lin Lin, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Benjamin A Shaby, Special Member

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Author:: Nixon, Michelle Anne
Title:: Privacy Preserving Methods in the Era of Big Data: New Methods and Connections
Graduate Program:: Statistics
Keywords:: Statistical Data Privacy
Synthetic Data
Statistical Disclosure Control
Differential Privacy
Knockoffs
File:: Download Nixon_dissertationFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Wen, Jiawei
Title:: Multi-block ADMM Algorithms for High-dimensional Sparse Estimation
Graduate Program:: Statistics
Keywords:: Feature partition
Alternating direction method of multipliers
High dimensional data
File:: Download jiawei_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ethan Xingyuan Fang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Helen Marie Kamens, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Ethan Xingyuan Fang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Bartley, Meridith
Title:: Advances in Ecological Statistics
Graduate Program:: Statistics
Keywords:: statistics
environmental statistics
animal movement
multivariate statistics
bayesian
bird migration
ant trophallaxis
water quality
Hidden Markov model
data fusion
extrapolation
joint model
File:: Download Advances_in_Ecological_Statistics__Penalized_Stochastic_Processes_and_Optimal_Spatial_Design-5.pdf
Committee Members:: Ephraim Mont Hanks, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murali Haran, Committee Member
David Hunter, Committee Member
David Peter Hughes, Outside Member
Benjamin Shaby, Special Member
Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Saram, Thilini
Title:: Demand Estimation with Missingness of Product Availability
Graduate Program:: Statistics
Keywords:: Discrete choice models
EM algorithms
Missing variables
File:: Download MASTER_S_THESIS_THILINI_SARAM.pdf
Committee Members:: David Hunter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prabhani Kuruppumullage Don, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

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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:: Download Ilias_Moysidis_-_Dissertation.pdf
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

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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

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