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Author:

Song, Won Chul

Title:

Nonparametric Independence Screening And Test-based Screening Via The Variance Of The Regression Function

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Sure independence screening
test-based screening
Ultrahigh dimensionality

File:

Download WonchulSong_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Special Member

Author:

Bagyan, Armine

Title:

Central Limit Theorems for Randomly Modulated Sequences of Random Vectors with Resampling and Applications to Statistics

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

limit theorems
random modulation
ergodic stationary sequences
sequences of vectors
resampling

File:

Download Dissertation_ArmineBagyan.pdf

Committee Members:

Arkady Tempelman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Yang

Title:

Approaches to reduce and integrate data in structured and high-dimensional regression problems in Genomics

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Data integration
Genomics
Ordinary least squares
Structured data
Sufficient dimension reduction
Variable selection

File:

Download YangLiu-Dissertation_081615.pdf

Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Mary Poss, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Weijie

Title:

Dimensional Analysis in Statistics: Theories, Methodologies and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Dimensional analysis
Empirical model
Physical system
Quantitative analysis
Scale invariant
Similarity
Statistics

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Special Member

Author:

Xu, Zhuying

Title:

Locally Stationary Quantile Regression For Inflation and Interest Rates

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Locally stationary model; Nonparametric estimation; Quantile reg

File:

Download zhuying-Dissertation__1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Goldstein, Joshua Randall

Title:

Compartmental, Spatial, and Point Process Models for Infectious Diseases

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

infectious disease models
SIR models
spatial point processes
Gaussian processes
Markov chain Monte Carlo

File:

Download Goldstein_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Fricks, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Committee Member

Author:

Christou, Eliana

Title:

A Non-iterative Method for Fitting the Single Index Quantile Regression Model with Uncensored and Censored Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Censored Data
Dimension reduction
Index model
Nadaraya-Watson estimator
Quantile regression.

File:

Download Christou_Eliana_PhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Spiro E Stefanou, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Special Member

Author:

Hao, Han

Title:

MODELING THE GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF COMPLEX TRAITS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

QTL mapping
Functional mapping
HANOVA
ODE

File:

Download HanHao-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bernstein, Jason

Title:

Inference of Biophysical Diffusion With Transient Binding Using Particle Filters and Stochastic Em

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Particle filter
Stochastic EM
State Space Model
Motor Protein

File:

Download PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Fricks, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

Author:

Chu, Wanghuan

Title:

Feature Screening For Ultra-high Dimensional Longitudinal Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Feature screening
ultra-high dimensional data
longitudinal genetic study

File:

Download Chu_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Reimherr, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Outside Member

Author:

Russell, James Caleb

Title:

Stochastic Models for Individual and Collective Animal Movement

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Animal Movement
Collective Motion
Correlated Random Walk
MCMC algorithm
Bayesian Statistics
Potential Surface
Camponotus Pennsylvanicus

File:

Download Russell_James_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murali Haran, Committee Member
John Fricks, Committee Member
David Peter Hughes, Outside Member

Author:

Artemiou, Andreas A

Title:

Topics on Supervised and Unsupervised Dimension Reduction

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Unitary invariance
Regression
Kernel principal components
Sufficient Dimension Reduction
Support Vector Machines

File:

Download Dissertation_doc.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Michael Akritas, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Adam Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Kai, Bo

Title:

Robust Nonparametric and Semiparametric Modeling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Nonparametric Smoothing
Semiparametric Modeling
Robust Statistics
Quantile Regression

File:

Download PhDThesis_Bo_Kai.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R. Hunter, Committee Member
Damla Senturk, Committee Member
Vernon M. Chinchilli, Committee Member

Author:

Groendyke, Christophe

Title:

Inference for Social Networks Based on Epidemic Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

networks
ERGM
MCMC
Erdos-Renyi
measles

File:

Download CGDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member

Author:

Teng, Huei-Wen

Title:

Bayesian nonparametric approaches for financial option pricing

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

the Greeks
asset pricing
risk management
financial options
nonparametric methods
Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation
modeling
Bayesian analysis
the state price density

File:

Download Wen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Liechty, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jingzhi (Jay) Huang, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member

Author:

Hughes, John

Title:

Motor Proteins and Non-Gaussian Areal Data: Advances in Stochastic Modeling and Computation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dimension reduction
spatial model
bio-imaging
kinesin
motor protein
generalized linear model

File:

Download Hughes_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Fricks, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O. Hancock, Committee Member
David Hunter, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Junyi

Title:

Model Misspecification and Feature Screening for Ultrahigh Dimensional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Covariate-adjusted approach; generalized linear re

File:

Download JunyiLin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi Altman, Committee Member
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Hunter David, Committee Member
Ping Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Lu

Title:

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE REGIME SWITCHING COVARIANCE MODEL

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dynamic covariance
state space model
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
bayesian analysis
stochastic volatility
time series analysis

File:

Download Lu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Liechty, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Timothy Simin, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member

Author:

Tibbits, Matthew McLean

Title:

Parallel Markov chain Monte Carlo

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

MCMC
Parallel Computing
Bayesian Sampling
Slice Sampling
Langevin Hastings

File:

Download mTibbits-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John C. Liechty, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Hunter, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member

Author:

Atiyat, Muhammad

Title:

Instrumental Variable Modeling in a Survival Analysis Framework.

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

survival analysis
endogeneity
instrumental variable
proportional hazards model
additive hazards model
AFT model.

File:

Download MuhammadAtiyat-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Bruce Lindsay, Committee Member
Dr. Bing Li, Committee Member
Dr. Christopher Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Dong, Yuexiao

Title:

Dimension Reduction for Non-elliptically Distributed Predictors

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

central space
dimension reduction
solution space
non-ellipticity

File:

Download dong_phd.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael G. Akritas, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Dennis K. J. Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Feng, Yijia

Title:

Robust Nonparametric Function Estimation with Serially Correlated Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

autoregressive process
local linear regression
robust regression

File:

Download Yijia_Feng_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Damla Senturk, Committee Member
Dr. Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member
Dr. Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member

Author:

Taoufik, Bahaeddine

Title:

FUNCTIONAL DATA BASED INFERENCE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY FINANCIAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Data
Nonlinear Functional Regression
Cross-section of returns
Cumulative intraday returns
Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces

File:

Download Dissertation_B_Taoufik.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
John C Liechty, Outside Member

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:

Download EftychiaSolea-PhDDissertation.pdf

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:

Xu, Zhanxiong

Title:

Efficient parameter estimation methods using quantile regression in heteroscedastic models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

quantile regression
heteroscedastic models
optimal weighting
composite quantile regression

File:

Download Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Kevin Haeseung

Title:

Statistical Learning of Complex Large-Scale Dynamic Systems

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistical learning
Model-based clustering
Dynamic networks
Graphical model
EM algorithm
Variational inference

File:

Download Kevin_Lee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R. Hunter, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Nanyin Zhang, Outside Member
Mark S. Handcock, Special Member

Author:

Constantinou, Panayiotis

Title:

TESTING SEPARABILITY OF FUNCTIONAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Separability
Functional data
Space-time processes
Functional panels

File:

Download Panayiotis_Constantinou-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael G Akritas, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
John C Liechty, Outside Member

Author:

Song, Jun

Title:

Dimension reduction for functional data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dimension reduction
random operator
supervised machine learning
unsupervised machine learning
functional data analysis
handwriting data
speech recognition data
dimension reduction
random operator
supervised machine learning
unsupervised machine learning
functional data analysis
handwriting data
speech recognition data

File:

Download Thesis_Jun.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S. Altman, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Christopher Parker, Outside Member
Matthew Reimherr, Committee Member

Author:

Guan, Yawen

Title:

Reduced-dimensional Non-Gaussian Spatial Models and Statistical Methods for Studying the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Spatial Model
Non-Gaussian Spatial Data
Markov chain Monte Carlo Expectation Maximization
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Glacier Dynamics
Bayesian Hierarchical Model
Gaussian Process
Latent Gaussian Process Model

File:

Download YawenGuan-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Outside Member

Author:

Choi, Hyunphil

Title:

Confidence Regions and Bands : for Functional Parameters and Hypothesis Testing Inversion

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Data Analysis
Hypothesis Testing
Confidence Regions
Confidence Bands
Principal Component Analysis
Gaussian Process
Distribution Goodness-of-Fit Tests
Kolmogorov-Smirnov
Anderson-Darling
Time Series
Bootstrap
Test-Inversion
Market Predictability

File:

Download Thesis_HyunphilChoi_0622A.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Committee Member
Timothy T Simin, Outside Member

Author:

Lin, Junli

Title:

Copula Versions of RKHS-Based and Distance-Based Criteria

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

kernel methods
permutation method
two-sample problems
copula
kernel methods
permutation methods
V-statistic

File:

Download JunliLin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Akritas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Reimherr, Committee Member
Bharath Sriperumbudur, Committee Member
Jesse Barlow, Outside Member

Author:

Ye, Jingyi

Title:

New Statistical Procedures for Analysis of HIV Data and High Dimensional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

HIV
prevalence and incidence
incidence assay data
refitted cross-validation
high dimension data
varying coefficient model
varying error variance

File:

Download Jingyi_Ye-_final_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Le Bao, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Chuan-Sheng

Title:

SEMIPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION AND INFERENCE FOR CONDITIONAL VALUE-AT-RISK AND EXPECTED SHORTFALL

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Bootstrap
Conditional expected shortfall
Conditional Value-at-Risk
Nonlinear time series
Quantile regression
Semiparametric methods

File:

Download Chuan-Sheng_s_Dissertation_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Bomin

Title:

Latent Modeling of Dynamic Social Networks

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dynamic networks
latent space model
social network analysis
survival modeling
Bayesian statistics

File:

Download phdthesis_BominKim_edit.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Russell Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jia Li, Committee Member
Lin Lin, Committee Member
Bruce A Desmarais Jr., Outside Member
Xiaoyue Niu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaoyue Niu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Yang, Songshan

Title:

NEW STATISTICAL ANALYTIC TOOLS FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

High Dimensional Data
Feature Screening
Statistical Inference

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Outside Member

Author:

Petrovich, Justin Peter

Title:

Functional Principal Component Analysis and Sparse Functional Regression

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

functional data analysis
sparse functional data
FPCA
scalar-on-function regression

File:

Download JustinPetrovich-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Outside Member
Carrie Daymont, Special Member

Author:

Snoke, Joshua Valor

Title:

STATISTICAL DATA PRIVACY METHODS FOR INCREASING RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistical Data Privacy
Disclosure Control
Multiparty Computation
Differential Privacy
Partitioned Data
Synthetic Data

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Naomi S Altman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Timothy Raymond Brick, Committee Member
Timothy Raymond Brick, Outside Member

Author:

Kang, Hyun Bin

Title:

Functional Manifold Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Data Analysis
Shape Analysis
Object Oriented Data Analysis
Manifold Learning
Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space

File:

Download HyunBinKang_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Mark Shriver, Outside Member

Author:

Quinlan, Kevin Randall

Title:

Advances in Design of Computer Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Covering Arrays
Bayesian Design
Plackett and Burman Designs
Experimental Run Order
Optimization

File:

Download Thesis_2262019.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Keith Pearl, Committee Member
David Hunter, Committee Member
Enrique Del Castillo, Outside Member

Author:

Peng, Jiayu

Title:

New Developments in Design of Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Optimal design
Order-of-addition
Run order
Screening design
Exchange algorithm
Traveling Salesman Problem

File:

Download Jiayu_Peng_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Outside Member
Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair
James Rosenberger, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Ching Chi

Title:

Dimensional Analysis for Response Surface Methodology

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Dimension reduction
Function approximation
Optimization
Variable selection

File:

Download Dissertation_CCY_17May19.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Outside Member

Author:

You, Cheng

Title:

Air Quality and Health Effects: Systematic Investigation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Time Series
Detrending
Smoothing
Spline
Kernel
Regression
Case Crossover
Short-term Change
Long-term Trend
Acute Effect
Chronic Effect
Air Quality
Environmental Epidemiology

File:

Download ChengYou-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis K.J. Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis K.J. Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim M. Hanks, Committee Member
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Outside Member

Author:

Hadjicosta, Elena

Title:

Integral Transform Methods in Goodness-of-Fit Testing

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Bessel function
Contiguous alternative
Gamma distribution
Gaussian random field
Hankel transform
Wishart distribution

File:

Download Hadjicosta_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Richards, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bharath Sriperumbudur, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Akritas, Committee Member
Lynn Lin, Committee Member
Kirsten Eisentraeger, Outside Member

Author:

Shen, Frank

Title:

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF CHROMOSOME CONFORMATION DATA AND OTHER OMIC DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

statistics
nonnegative matrix factorization
Hi-C
Chromosome Conformation
hierarchical model

File:

Download FrankShenDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Qunhua Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Naomi S Altman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
NA, Committee Member
Shaun Mahony, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Changcheng

Title:

Topics in High-dimensional Statistical Inference

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Hotelling T2 test
Multiple sample mean test
Projection test
Two-sample mean test
Causal structural learning
Causal discovery
Causal graphical models
D-separation set
Generalized Method of Moments

File:

Download ChangchengLi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

Park, Jaewoo

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR MODELS WITH INTRACTABLE NORMALIZING FUNCTIONS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Markov chain Monte Carlo
doubly intractable distributions
exponen- tial random graph models
Markov point processes
importance sampling
Gaussian processes
non-Gaussian spatial data
dimension reduction
Monte Carlo maximum likelihood

File:

Download JParkThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Le Bao, Committee Member
Benjamin Adam Shaby, Committee Member
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Outside Member

Author:

Bopp, Gregory

Title:

Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values with Applications in Climatology

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

extreme values
statistics
spatio-temporal modeling
wind speeds
precipitation

File:

Download GregoryBopp-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin Adam Shaby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Adam Shaby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Outside Member

Author:

Zhao, Ge

Title:

Semiparamertic dimension reduction model and applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Survival Analysis
Sufficient Dimension Reduction
Semiparametric
Nonparametric

File:

Download GeZhaoDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yanyuan Ma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael G Akritas, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
James Z Wang, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Wanjun

Title:

New Statistical Tools for High-dimensional Data Modeling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

High-dimensional data
Hypothesis testing
Feature screening
Regularized method

File:

Download Wanjun_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside 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:

Mirshani, Ardalan

Title:

Regularization Methods In Functional Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Data
Differential Privacy
Hilbert Space
Variable Selection
Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space
Oracle Property
Elastic Net
Smooth Estimate
Density Estimation

File:

Download PhD_Thesis__Ardalan_Mirshani_.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nandy, Debmalya

Title:

COVARIATE INFORMATION: A NOVEL APPROACH TO SUFFICIENT DIMENSION REDUCTION & FEATURE SCREENING FOR ULTRAHIGH-DIMENSIONAL COVARIATES IN SUPERVISED PROBLEMS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Fisher information
Density information
Supervised problems
Sufficient dimension reduction
Feature screening
Ultrahigh dimension
Bootstrap

File:

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Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Weixin Yao, Special Member

Author:

Awan, Jordan

Title:

Optimizing Finite Sample Performance of Differential Privacy

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistical Disclosure Control
Statistical Disclosure Limitation
Empirical Risk Minimization
Regression

File:

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Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Parsons, Jacob

Title:

The Integration and Evaluation of Multiple Data Sources

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistics
Bayesian
Influence Analysis
Size Estimation
Value of Information
Decision Theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Le Bao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Le Bao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaoyue Niu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Ashton Michael Verdery, Outside Member
Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair
Xiaoyue Niu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

Author:

Wijeyakulasuriya, Dhanushi

Title:

Modern Algorithm-based approaches for Modeling Animal Movement

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Animal Movement
Machine Learning
Extreme Value Theory
Spatial Extremes
First Arrival
Spatial Statistics

File:

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Le Bao, Committee Member
Benjamin Shaby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Benjamin Shaby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Agarwal, Amal

Title:

Statistical Network Modeling and its Applications in Complex Large-Scale Systems

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Clustering
Environmental studies
Exponential-family random graphical model
Variational Inference
Dynamic Network
Weighted Network
Pollution Detection

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Member
Xiang Zhan, Outside Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Mengyan

Title:

Statistical Inference with Corrupted Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Measurement error model
Efficient score method
Semiparametric regression
High dimensional inference
Nonignorable missing data
Statistical inference

File:

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Committee Members:

Yanyuan Ma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael G Akritas, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Outside Member
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Likun

Title:

Topics on Statistical Inference for Extreme Values

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Global maximum
Profile likelihood
Noninformative
Objective Bayes
Asymptotic dependence
Censored likelihood

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Shaby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Shaby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Lin Lin, Committee Member
Eric B Ford, Outside Member
Martin Tingley, Special Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Seiyon

Title:

Computational Methods for Hierarchical Spatial Models and Ice Sheet Model Calibration

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Spatial Statistics
Zero-inflated spatial data
Computer model calibration
sampling importance resampling
Basis Representation
computational statistics
uncertainty quantification

File:

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Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ben Shaby, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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

Author:

Wikle, Nathan

Title:

Mechanistic models for spatial and spatio-temporal data.

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

spatial statistics
spatio-temporal statistics
mechanistic models
COVID-19
air pollution
ant trophallaxis

File:

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Committee Members:

Tyler Wagner, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Hunter, Major Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Murali Haran, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Seong Ho

Title:

Contributions to semiparametric inference and its applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

robustness
semiparametrics
semiparametric efficiency

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Major Field Member
Yanyuan Ma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Necdet Aybat, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Rios, Nicholas

Title:

Contributions to Mixture Experiments When Order of Addition is Important

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Design of Experiments
Mixture Experiments
Order of Addition
Threshold Accepting

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Special Member
Murali Haran, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Schmid, Christian

Title:

Theory and Applications of Estimation Methods for Exponential-family Random Graph Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

network
ERGM
MLE
pseudolikelihood
likelihood principle
simulated annealing
Godambe information
SCOTUS
citations
majority opinions
parametric bootstrap

File:

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Committee Members:

David Hunter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaoyue Niu, Major Field Member
Murali Haran, Major Field Member
Bruce Desmarais, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Ethan Fang, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Singh, Roopali

Title:

Statistical Methods in Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Single cell
Spatial Transcriptomics
Missing Data
Reproducibility
Bayesian NMF
Variational Inference
EM Algorithm

File:

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Committee Members:

Dajiang Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiang Zhu, Major Field Member
Qunhua Li, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Hanks, Chair of Committee
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Yu, Xiufan

Title:

Topics on power enhancement in high-dimensional hypothesis tests

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

power enhancement
high-dimensional tests
multi-factor pricing models
two-sample covariance tests
simultaneous tests

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Jingzhi Huang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Jia

Title:

Topics on Variable Selection in High-Dimensional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Bayesian variable selection
High-dimensional data
Network analysis
Partially linear model
Time-varying network model

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Major Field Member
David Hunter, Major Field Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zarmehri, Sahar

Title:

Advances of Spatio-Temporal Models in Ecology: Applications in Landscape Genetics, Disease Spread, and Animal Movement

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Spatial statistics
Ecology
Landscape genetics
Spatiotemporal models
Disease spread
Bayesian non-parametric
Animal movement

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Ferrari, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lin Lin, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Murali Haran, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kenney, Ana

Title:

Mixed Integer Programming, Whitening, and Functional Data Analysis: Improving Feature Selection in “Omics” Research

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Data Analysis
Mixed Integer Programming
Second Order Conic Programming
Whitening
Statistical Genomics
Robust Regression
Oracle Properties
Feature Screening
Differential Privacy
Human Microbiome
Feature Selection

File:

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Committee Members:

Kateryna Makova, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ethan Fang, Major Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Hernandez Bejarano, Manuel

Title:

Density estimation for some semiparametric models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Density estimation
Functional convergence
Nonparametric kernel den- sity estimator
Nonparametric regression
Specification testing
Density estimation
Functional convergence
Nonparametric kernel density estimator
Nonparametric regression
Specification testing
ARCH models
Quantile regression

File:

Download PSU_Thesis_Document_2024_Manuel_Hernandez_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lingzhou Xue, Major Field Member
Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Osotsi, Ame J

Title:

Extracting information in text and time series datasets

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Natural language processing
Information extraction
Change point
Wearable data
Machine learning
Deep learning
Topic model

File:

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Committee Members:

David Hunter, Major Field Member
Qunhua Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Guido Cervone, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Siapoutis, Nikolas

Title:

Shrinkage Estimation for the Diagonal Multivariate Natural Exponential Families

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

shrinkage estimators
diagonal multivariate natural exponential families
unbiased estimate of risk
semi-parametrics
sampling methods

File:

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Committee Members:

Donald Richards, Dissertation Advisor
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alexei Novikov, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Ghosh, Trinetri

Title:

Semiparametric Approaches for Average Causal Effect and Precision Medicine

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Causal effect
dimension reduction
precision medicine
robustness
semiparametric
value function

File:

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Committee Members:

Jenny Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yanyuan Ma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Kari Morgan, Major Field Member
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Special Member

Author:

Seo, Beomseok

Title:

Interpretable Statistical Learning: From Hidden Markov Models to Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Interpretable Machine Learning
Nonlinear Regression and Classification
Unsupervised Variable Selection
Clustering Stability
Interpretable Neural Networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Hanks, Major Field Member
Lin Lin, Co-Chair of Committee
Jia Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Yen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dang, Huy

Title:

Modeling data in time and space - studies of irregularities, dependence structure and applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

functional data analysis
time series
spatio-temporal dependence
irregularities detection
EM algorithm
wavelet transform
cs-fMRI

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Major Field Member
Marzia Cremona, Special Member
Nicole Lazar, Major Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chaleece Sandberg (she/her), Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Muzi

Title:

Study of Interval Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

interval data
symbolic data
segment plot
dandelion plot
response surface methodology
visualization
correlation measure

File:

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Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Major Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Chair of Committee
Dennis Lin, Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Phadke, Sayali

Title:

Measurement, Assessment, and Improvement of Statistical Literacy in Relevant Contexts

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistics Education
Statistical Literacy
Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling
Context
Isomorphic Assessment

File:

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
David Hunter, Co-Chair, Dissertation Advisor and Minor Member
Dennis Pearl, Major Field Member
Matthew Beckman, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kari Morgan, Special Member
Jonna Kulikowich, Outside Unit & Field Member

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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

Liao, Yujie

Title:

Varying Coefficient Mediation Model

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Mediation analysis
Varying coefficient model
Indirect effect
Generalized linear model

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Major Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Helen Kamens, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Quach, Harris

Title:

Advances in Forward Sufficient Dimension Reduction Methods for Statistical Learning

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

ordinal data
functional data
classification
outer product of canonical gradients
tensor product of gradients
local linear function on function regression
k-means tuning

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Major Field Member
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Bing Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alexei Novikov, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Li, Xiaoxiao

Title:

Space-time Models for Inferring Infectious Disease Risk and Burden

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

infectious disease
space-time model
disease transmission

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Matthew Ferrari, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Berg, Major Field Member
Le Bao, Major Field Member
Murali Haran, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Cui, Shijie

Title:

Statistical Inference for High Dimensional Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

statistics
statistical inference
high dimension
partially linear single index
matrix
rank
double robust
measurement error
misspecified
sparse SVD

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Major Field Member
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies