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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

Author:

Zeng, Mudong

Title:

Statistical Inference for High Dimensional Mediation Model

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Mediation Analysis
Penalized Least Squares
Sparsity

File:

Download Mudong_Zeng_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Hong Ma, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author:

Seng, Bibiana

Title:

Rerandomization in Fractional Factorial Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Design of Experiments
Rerandomization
Applied Statistics
Factorial Experiments

File:

Download BES_Masters_Thesis_Update.pdf

Committee Members:

Kari Lock Morgan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair