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Author:

Yin, Alexander Chih-Jen

Title:

Learning on the job: Cooperative education, internships, and engineering problem-solving skills

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

Cooperative education
engineering education
internships
problem-solving skills
Experiential Learning Cycle
Model of Domain Learning

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Lisa R Lattuca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lisa R Lattuca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Fredericks Volkwein, Committee Member
Peggy Noel Van Meter, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Balakrishnan, Bimal

Title:

EVALUATING IMPACT OF NAVIGABILITY AFFORDANCES AND NARRATIVE TRANSPORTATION ON SPATIAL PRESENCE

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

virtual reality
narratives
navigability
spatial presence
HCI
affordances

File:

Download Balakrishnan_eTD_2008.pdf

Committee Members:

S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Loukas N Kalisperis, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Convertino, Gregorio

Title:

AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING: EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

HCI
human-computer interaction
CSCW
computer-supported cooperative work
awareness
common ground
knowledge sharing
research method
experimental method
laboratory method
measure
process
groupware

File:

Download Convertino_PhdThesis_20080815.pdf

Committee Members:

John Millar Carroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Thomas Moran, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Hongli

Title:

EVALUATING LANGUAGE GROUP DIFFERENCES IN THE SUBSKILLS OF READING USING A COGNITIVE DIAGNOSTIC MODELING AND DIFFERENTIAL SKILL FUNCTIONING APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

Fusion model
cognitive diagnostic modeling
differential skill functioning
reading subskills
the MELAB

File:

Download Dissertation-Final-0328.pdf

Committee Members:

Hoi Kin Suen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pui Wa Lei, Committee Member
Bonnie J Meyer, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Yong Won Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Jung, Hyekyung

Title:

A Latent-Class Selection Model for Nonignorably Missing Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

multivariate incomplete data
nonignorable nonresponse
latent variable.

File:

Download PhD_HyekyungJung.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Walter Graham, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Bruce G. Lindsay, Committee Member

Author:

Bissell-Havran, Joanna Marie

Title:

Parents' Differential Treatment and Siblings' Academic Outcomes During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

emerging adulthood
siblings
adolescence
academic achievement
parenting

File:

Download Bissell-Havran-dissertation-final-gr-school.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Loken, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Loken, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Mc Hale, Committee Member
Hobart H Cleveland Iii, Committee Member
Rayne Audrey Sperling, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Juyoun

Title:

Sampling contingency tables given sets of marginals and/or conditionals in the context of statistical disclosure limitation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Algebraic Statistics
Monte Carlo)
Stochastic Computation and Simulation Methods (MCM
Categorical Data Analysis
Contingency Tables
Statistical Disclosure Limitation Method

File:

Download JuyounLee-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Yuri Zarhin, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Lan

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A MIXED APPROACH USING THE LOGISTIC LATENT CLASS MODEL AND THINK-ALOUD PROTOCOLS TO INFORM DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

differential item functioning
mixture model
think-aloud protocols

File:

Download LanYuThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pui Wa Lei, Committee Member
Jonna Marie Kulikowich, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Dorothy H Evensen, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Qiong

Title:

CLASS EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY IN LATENT CLASS MODELS

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

classification accuracy
correct class extraction
latent class models
sample sizes

File:

Download Dissertation_Qiong_Wu_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Pui Wa Lei, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pui Wa Lei, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Member
Jonna Marie Kulikowich, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Gilreath, Tamika DeLaine

Title:

Multiple-context assessment of suicidal ideation, depression, and substance use among African American adolescents

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

mental health
African American
adolescents

File:

Download TamikaGFinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary King, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Collins O Airhihenbuwa, Committee Member
John Walter Graham, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Vu, Duy Quang

Title:

Statistical Models and Algorithms for Large Network Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

network work analysis
survival modeling
dynamic network formation
latent class modeling

File:

Download DuyVu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Anna

Title:

Supporting place sensemaking with multidimensional information representation on mobile devices

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Human Computer Interaction
Mobile application design
Sense-making
Location-based service

File:

Download Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaolong Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Millar Carroll, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Nau, Claudia L

Title:

How wrong is wrong? Monte-Carlo simulation experiments on measuring the neighborhood at the wrong scale

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

neighborhood
measurement
scale
census
tract
Monte-Carlo
simulation
BMI
health

File:

Download Dissertation_Claudia_Nau_rev2.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Matthews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Matthews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Glenn A Firebaugh, Committee Member
Barrett Alan Lee, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Special Member
Murali Haran, Special Member

Author:

Guha Thakurta, Abhradeep

Title:

Differentially Private Convex Optimization For Empirical Risk Minimization And High-dimensional Regression

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Data Privacy
Differential Privacy
Machine Learning
High-dimensional Statistics
Sparse Regression

File:

Download AbhradeepThakurta-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Adam Davison Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adam Davison Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Committee Member

Author:

Khoury, Nicole Leighanne

Title:

Investigating Community Annoyance from Impulsive Noise Using Geostatistical Methods

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Spatial Modeling
Noise
NASA
Geostatistics

File:

Download Khoury_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhu, Yeying

Title:

Data-adaptive Approaches to Modeling Propensity Scores in Causal Inference Problems

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

causal inference
data-adaptive
data mining
observational studies
propensity scores

File:

Download Yeying-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Woo, Yong

Title:

Optimization and Statistical Estimation for the Post Randomization Method

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Post Randomization Method
Statistical Disclosure Control
EM Algorithm
Generalized Linear Models
Constrained Optimization

File:

Download jwoo_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald Richards, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member

Author:

Solea, Eftychia

Title:

Differentially Private Hypothesis Testing For Normal Random Variables.

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

differential privacy
hypothesis testing
normal distribution

File:

Download Eftychia-MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yang, Qiong

Title:

Reinvestigation of causal effects of Right Heart catheterization: a matching approach

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Right Heart Catheterization
Causal Inference
Matching
Sensitivity Analysis

File:

Download Qiong-Master.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Spiro E Stefanou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Karwa, Vishesh

Title:

Likelihood based inference in data privacy and other discrete missing data problems.

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Missing Data
Likelihood
Privacy
networks
discrete data

File:

Download VisheshKarwa-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Adam Smith, Special Member