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Author:

Hao, Han

Title:

MODELING THE GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF COMPLEX TRAITS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

QTL mapping
Functional mapping
HANOVA
ODE

File:

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Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Solea, Eftychia

Title:

Nonparametric graphical models for functional data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Additive conditional independence; additive correlation operator; additive precision operator; EEG; fMRI; gaussian graphical model; reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
Functional Principal Component Analysis
Hilbert space- valued random elements
Karhunen-Loeve expansion
Rank Correlation
Rank Transformation.

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Committee Member
Michael Akritas, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Gosik, Kirk D

Title:

STATISTICAL MODELS FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL SCREENING OF GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC EFFECTS

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics

Keywords:

variable-selection
gene-expression
eQTL
genetic-architecture
epigenetics

File:

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Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Chinchilli, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member
James Broach, Outside Member

Author:

Wu, Di

Title:

INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN GREEN ASH RESPONSE TO AN INVASIVE INSECT

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

Green ash
genetic diversity
microsatellite marker
population structure
Green ash
genetic diversity
population structure
linkage map
single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
simple sequence repeats (SSRs)
genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS)
synteny
network analysis
differentially expressed genes
genome-wide association studies
linkage disequilibrium (LD)
segregation distortion (SD)

File:

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Committee Members:

John E. Carlson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John E. Carlson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse R. Lasky, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Committee Member
Majid Foolad, Outside Member

Author:

Lyu, Yafei

Title:

STATISTICAL INTEGRATION OF GENOMIC DATA ACROSS LABS, PLATFORMS AND EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

High throughput sequencing
Data integration
Co-expression network
Copula
Graphical model
mixture model

File:

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Committee Members:

Qunhua Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qunhua Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Outside Member
Rongling Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Ling

Title:

Procedures for Feature Screening and Interaction Identification in High-dimensional Data Modelling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Sure Joint ScreeningFeature Screening
Interaction Identification
``King'' Variable
Interaction Types
Iteratively Kings' Forests
Feature Screening
Interaction Identification
Iteratively Kings' Forests
Sure Joint Screening
Cox Model

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Chen, Chixiang

Title:

Statistical Models for Recovering Dynamic Gene Networks from Static Data

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics

Keywords:

The Genotype-Tissue Expression
Disease progression
Network learning
Ordinary differential equations
Quasi-dynamic network

File:

Download CCX_Penn_State_University_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Joanna Floros, Outside Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Xiang Zhan, Committee Member
Arthur Steven Berg, Program Head/Chair
Ming Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yan, Runan

Title:

Investigation of the effect of microbiota on the survival and culturability of Campylobacter spp.

Graduate Program:

Food Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Campylobacter
chicken meat microbiota
culturability
survival
viability qPCR
cold storage

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Committee Members:

Jasna Kovac, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nkuchia M'ikanatha, Special Member
Edward Dudley, Major Field Member
Catherine Cutter, Major Field Member
Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sudhakar Shetty, Samidha

Title:

Statistical Analysis of Missing Not at Random Problems with a Nonparametric Regression Model and Semiparametric Missingness Mechanism.

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Efficient influence function model misspecification
nonignorable missing data
propensity of missing data
robust estimation
semiparametric statistics.
Nonignorable missing data
Semiparametric statistics
Efficient influence function
Robust estimation
Efficient estimation

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Yanyuan Ma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaoyue Niu, Major Field Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Kim, Kyongwon

Title:

Dimension Reduction and Sufficient Graphical Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Sufficient Dimension Reduction
Post Dimension Reduction Statistical Inference
Graphical Models
Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair