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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author:

Sheng, Ben

Title:

The Integration of Multiple Data Sources for HIV/AIDS Incidence and Prevalence Estimation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

antenatal clinic surveillance
HIV prevalence
statistical models
antenatal clinic surveillance
HIV prevalence
statistical models
routine HIV testing among pregnant women
Antenatal clinic
Unlinked anonymous HIV testing
Routine HIV testing
Calibration parameter
Linear mixed-effects model
weakly supervised learning
semi-supervised learning
logistic regression
contingency table
HIV recency
HIV incidence

File:

Download BenSheng-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Le Bao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Le Bao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Xun Cao, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Boschi, Tobia

Title:

Data Registration and Feature Selection in Functional Regression: some methodological and computational developments

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Linear Models
Feature Selection
Functional Registration

File:

Download main_tobia.pdf

Committee Members:

Marzia A Cremona, Special Member
Murali Haran, Major Field Member
Paul Medvedev, Outside Unit & Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Matthew Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Sterge, Nicholas

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL-STATISTICAL TRADEOFF IN APPOROXIMATE KERNEL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistics
Kernel Methods
Machine Learning
Principal Component Analysis
Approximation Methods

File:

Download NicholasJSterge_Dissertation_2_0.pdf

Committee Members:

John Harlim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Ethan Fang, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair