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Author:

Ghatak, Maitraya

Title:

Estimating Means Using Empirical Likelihood in Large Datasets

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Empirical Likelihood
Algorithms for Mean Estimation

File:

Download Thesis_Final_MaitrayaGhatak.pdf

Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Nicole Alana Lazar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
G. Jogesh Babu, Committee Member

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

Author:

Zhang, Ying

Title:

Air Pollution Estimation Under Air Stagnation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Air Pollution
Air Stagnation
Spatio-temporal Model
Restricted Spatio-temporal Regression

File:

Download Master_Thesis_YingZhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Le Bao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaoyue Niu, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author:

Mattiace, John Michael

Title:

A stochastic model studying interactions between breastfeeding and vaccination in providing rotavirus immunity

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

rotavirus
approximate bayesian computation
bayesian
ordinary differential equations
sir

File:

Download MattiaceThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Berg, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Runze Li, Program Head/Chair