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Author:

Smucker, Byran Jay

Title:

By Design: Exchange Algorithms to Construct Exact Model-Robust and Multiresponse Experimental Designs

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

split-plot design
optimal design
maximin

File:

Download Smucker_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique Del Castillo And James Rosenberger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Enrique Del Castillo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Susan H Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Han, Bing

Title:

A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO FALSE DISCOVERY RATE FOR LARGE SCALE SIMULTANEOUS INFERENCE

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Bayes false nondiscovery rate
Bayes false discovery rate
mixture model
MCMC

File:

Download Binder1.pdf

Committee Members:

Rana Arnold, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member

Author:

Seo, Byungtae

Title:

DOUBLY-SMOOTHED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Mixture models
Measurement error models
Minimum distance estimation
Nonparametric statistics
Kullback-Leibler distance
Kernel smoothing

File:

Download Seo_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Hung Yu Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Casciato, Denise

Title:

Effect of A Self-Evaluation Checklist on the Quality of Student Teachers' Scripted Lesson Plans

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

direct instruction
prompting
pre-service teaching
self-evaluation

File:

Download CasciatoThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles A Hughes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lee, Committee Member
John I Mc Cool, Committee Member

Author:

Dryver, Arthur Lance

Title:

Adaptive Sampling Designs and Associated Estimators

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

adaptive sampling
sampling designs

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Committee Member
Linda Marie Collins, Committee Member
Jogesh Babu, Committee Member
Steve K Thompson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Young, Derek Scott

Title:

A Study of Mixtures of Regressions

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

bootstrap
EM algorithm
mixture models
regression
data depth

File:

Download Derek-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
G Jogesh Babu, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Hoben Thomas, Committee Member

Author:

Kang, Doh Yung

Title:

CAUSAL INFERENCE BY SEMIPARAMETRIC IMPUTATION

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

estimating function
survey inference
imputation
Causal inference
missing data

File:

Download joseph-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member

Author:

KIM, DAEYOUNG

Title:

MIXTURE INFERENCE AT THE EDGE OF IDENTIFIABILITY

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Local identifiability
Asymptotic identifiability
Nonidentifiability
Finite mixture models
Estimation of parameters
Labelling confidence

File:

Download Dissertation_DaeyoungKim_.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member
James Z Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Antoniou, Efi Savvas

Title:

NONPARAMETRIC IMPUTATION AND (MID-) RANK TESTS FOR MIXED EFFECTS MODELS WITH MISSING DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kernel estimation
Nonparametric tests
Marginal nonparametric model
Nonparametric imputation
Missingness conditionally at random
Analysis of covariance
Nearest neighbor windows

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Linda Marie Collins, Committee Member

Author:

Hui, Guodong

Title:

Matrix Distances With their Application to Finding Directional Deviations from normality in High-Dimensional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

non-normal direction
quadratic distance
eigenanalysis
Fisher information
projection pursuit
mixture model

File:

Download phd_thesis_guodong_hui.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Hong

Title:

Contributions to Adatpive Web Sampling Designs

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

cost
adaptive sampling
sampling
adaptive web sampling
resampling
nonresponses

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steve K Thompson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Mosuk Chow, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Hyang Min

Title:

Variable Selection and Regularized Mixture Modeling for Clustering

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Modal EM
Ridgeline EM
Wrapper method
Aggregated distinctiveness
Gaussian mixture models
Covariance shrinkage
BIC-type penalized log-likelihood
Mixture model based clustering
Model regularization

File:

Download Hyang_Min_Lee-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jia Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jia Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Peng Liu, 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:

Lee, Hyunsook

Title:

Two Topics: A Jackknife Maximum Likelihood Approach to Statistical Model Selection and a Convex Hull Peeling Depth Approach to Nonparametric Massive Multivariate Data Analysis with Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kullback-Leibler distance
information criterion
statistical model selection
jackknife
jackknife information criterion
bias reduction
maximum likelihood
unbiased estimation
non-nested model
computational geometry
convex hull
convex hull peeling
statistical data depth
nonparametric statistics
generalized quantile process
descriptive statistics
skewness
kurtosis
volume functional
convex hull level set
massive data
outlier detection
balloon plot
multivariate analysis

File:

Download hlee.pdf

Committee Members:

G Jogesh Babu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Haiyan

Title:

Testing in multifactor heteroscedastic ANOVA and repeated measures designs with large number of levels

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

repeated measurements
ANOVA
longitudinal or funcitonal data
nonparametric procedures
large dimentional data
Rank tests

File:

Download whythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member

Author:

Cruz_Medina, Isidro Roberto

Title:

Almost Nonparametric and Nonparametric Estimation in Mixture Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

symmetric distributions
multinomial mixtures
training samples

File:

Download driver.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G. Lindsay, Committee Member
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, Committee Member
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hoben Thomas, Committee Member

Author:

Dialsingh, Isaac

Title:

False Discovery Rates when the Statistics are Discrete

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

false discovery rate
discrete test statistics

File:

Download Isaac_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Naomi S Altman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Naomi S Altman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Runzi Li, Special Member

Author:

Dziak, John Joseph

Title:

PENALIZED QUADRATIC INFERENCE FUNCTIONS FOR VARIABLE SELECTION IN LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

SCAD
LASSO
QIF
GEE
generalized estimating equations
variable selection

File:

Download DziakDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Linda Marie Collins, Committee Member

Author:

Pittman, Jennifer Lynn

Title:

ADAPTIVE SPLINES AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR OPTIMAL STATISTICAL MODELING

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

model selection
evolutionary computation
splines

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Rich Caruana, Committee Member
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Handcock, Committee Member
Zhen Luo, Committee Member
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, 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:

Sun, Jianping

Title:

Composite Likelihood in Long Sequence Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Markov chain likelihood
modified Hoeffding score
Hoeffding score
coposite likelihood
mutation
recombiantion

File:

Download phd_Jianping_Sun.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Jingyun

Title:

Measurement of Agreement for Categorical Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

multivariate kappa
kappa
Agreement

File:

Download dissertation0613.pdf

Committee Members:

Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Damla Senturk, Committee Member
Tonya Sharp King, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Junjia

Title:

Essays on Monitoring Profile Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Profile Monitoring
Linear Profiles
Likelihood Ratio Test
Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test
Average Run Length
Statistical Process Control

File:

Download Zhu_phd_thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Damla Senturk, Committee Member
Enrique Del Castillo, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Jiahan

Title:

THE BAYESIAN LASSO, BAYESIAN SCAD AND BAYESIAN GROUP LASSO WITH APPLICATIONS TO GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

lasso
variable selection
Bayesian approach
high-dimensional data

File:

Download JiahanLi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member

Author:

Bhat, Kabekode

Title:

Inference for Complex Computer Models and Large Multivariate Spatial Data with Applications to Climate Science

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

computer experiments
Gaussian process
multivariate spatial data
spatiotemporal data
hierarchical Bayesian modeling
climate change

File:

Download Bhat-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Klaus Keller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
James Samuel Shortle, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Kion

Title:

THE RECENT HISTORY FUNCTIONAL LINEAR MODEL AND ITS EXTENSION TO SPARSE LONGITUDINAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Principal Component Analysis
Recent History Functional Linear Models
Longitudinal Data Analysis
Functional Linear Models
Functional Data Analysis
Varying Coefficient Models

File:

Download KionKim-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Damla Senturk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Damla Senturk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Linda Marie Collins, Committee Member

Author:

Das, Kiranmoy

Title:

SEMI-PARAMETRIC BAYESIAN FUNCTIONAL MAPPING WITH IRREGULAR SPARSE LONGITUDINAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Longitudinal data
functional mapping
MCMC

File:

Download Das_Kiranmoy_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Peter Cm Molenaar, Committee Member

Author:

Romer, Megan M

Title:

The Statistical Analysis of Monotone Incomplete Multivariate Normal Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

monotone imcomplete data
multivariate normal

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Richards, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rana Arnold, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Diane Marie Henderson, Committee Member
Donald Richards, Committee Member

Author:

Yoo, Mina

Title:

MEASURES OF AGREEMENT IN METHOD COMPARISON STUDIES FOR INTENSIVE LONGITUDINAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

concordance correlation coefficient
varying coefficient models
partially linear models
mixed effects models
measurement agreement
intensive longitudinal data

File:

Download MinaYoo-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mosuk Chow, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Mian

Title:

NONPARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES IN FINITE MIXTURE OF REGRESSION MODELS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

mixture of regression models
nonparametric regression
EM algorithm
mixture of Gaussian processes

File:

Download Dissertation_MianHuang.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Hoben Thomas, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Min Hee

Title:

THRESHOLDING METHODS FOR HYPOTHESIS TESTING IN HANOVA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Goodness-of-fit testing
Testing
High dimensional alternatives
HANOVA
Hard thresholding
Order thresholding

File:

Download MinHee-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael G Akritas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Runze (Richard) Li, Committee Member
Leonid Berlyand, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Min Kyung

Title:

On Dimension Folding of Matrix or Array Valued Statistical Objects

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kronecker Envelop
Directional Regression
Sliced Inverse Regression
Sliced Average Variance Estimate

File:

Download Minkyung-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member

Author:

Hummel, Ruth M

Title:

IMPROVING ESTIMATION FOR EXPONENTIAL-FAMILY RANDOM GRAPH MODELS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

composite likelihood
penalized likelihood
pseudolikelihood
maximum likelihood estimation
exponential random graph model
bias correction
Mean value parameterization
%Maximum likelihood estimation
parameter estimation
Markov chain Monte Carlo
Exponential family random graph model
contrastive divergence
exponential families
convex hull

File:

Download RuthMHummel-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Russell Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Scott David Gest, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Rong

Title:

MULTIPLE IMPUTATION FOR MISSING ITEMS IN MULTI-THEMED QUESTIONNAIRES

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

factor model
EM algorithm
Markov chain Monte Carlo
incomplete data

File:

Download Rong_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Schafer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
D Wayne Osgood, Committee Member

Author:

Roths, Scott

Title:

Generalized stepwise procedures for controlling the false discovery rate

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

false discovery rate
stepwise procedures

File:

Download scott_roths_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

G Jogesh Babu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
G Jogesh Babu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Stephen George Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

Tyekucheva, Svitlana

Title:

Augmenting the bootstrap to analyze high-dimensional genomic data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

large-p-small-n
bootstrap
resampling
regularization

File:

Download sv_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Humter, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Member

Author:

Hiriote, Sasiprapa

Title:

Multivariate Concordance Correlation Coefficient

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

measures of agreement
repeated measurement
concordance correlation coefficient

File:

Download PhDThesis_Sasiprapa_Hiriote.pdf

Committee Members:

Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vernon M Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Tonya Sharp King, Committee Member
Peter Cm Molenaar, Committee Member

Author:

Liao, Shu-Min

Title:

HETEROSCEDASTIC UNBALANCED NESTED DESIGNS AND FULLY NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

nested design
ancova
fully nonparametric model
statistical testing
heteroscedasticity
asymptotic theory

File:

Download ShuminLiao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael G Akritas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member

Author:

Ray, Surajit

Title:

Distance-based Model-Selection with application to the Analysis of Gene Expression Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Mixtture models
number of components
modality
Quadratic distance
Microarray

File:

Download surajit_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G. Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Benjamin Franklin Pugh, Committee Member

Author:

Benaglia, Tatiana A

Title:

NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION IN MULTIVARIATE FINITE MIXTURE MODELS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Density Estimation
EM Algorithm
Nonparametric Mixture
Multivariate Mixture

File:

Download Benaglia_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Hoben Thomas, Committee Member

Author:

Hammel, Tracey Ann-Wrobel

Title:

SEMIPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION FOR FINITE MIXTURE MODELS USING AN EXPONENTIAL TILT

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

exponential tilting
empirical likelihood
repeated measures.

File:

Download thesismain.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas P Hettmansperger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce Lindsay, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Hoben Thomas, Committee Member

Author:

Gaugler, Trent

Title:

Nonparametric Models for Crossed Mixed Effects Designs

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

mixed effects models
hypothesis testing
nonparametric statistics
U-statistics
Neyman-Scott asymptotics

File:

Download TrentGaugler-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
Thomas P Hettmansperger, Committee Member
D Wayne Osgood, Committee Member

Author:

Recta, Virginia F.

Title:

A Model-based Analysis of Semicontinuous Spatial Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

model-based geostatistics
zero-inflated data
spatial GLMM
semicontinuous data
two-stage model

File:

Download dissertation_VRECTA_final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Member
Shelby Jay Fleischer, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Wei

Title:

A General Class of Agreement Coefficients for Categorical and Continuous Responses

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Agreement

File:

Download Wei_Zhang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
Tonya Sharp King, Committee Member
Damla Senturk, Committee Member
Peter Cm Molenaar, Committee Member

Author:

Yao, Weixin

Title:

On using mixtures and modes of mixtures in data analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

robust regression
label switching
mixtures

File:

Download thesisdraftnew.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Mao, Xianyun

Title:

DENSITY ESTIMATION AND MODAL BASED METHOD FOR HAPLOTYPING AND RECOMBINATION

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Expectation Maximization
Density Estimator
Genetics

File:

Download phd.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Yi-Ju

Title:

ROBUSTNESS PROPERTIES OF GENERALIZED CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS, WITH APPLICATIONS TO CROSS-OVER DESIGNS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Generalized Correlation Coefficient
Cross-Over Designs
Influence Function
Robustness

File:

Download final_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
Tonya Sharp King, Committee Member
Bruce G. Lindsay, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Yan

Title:

Local Modeling For Data With Autocorrelations

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Multivariate
Autoregressions
Nonoparametric models
Variable Selection

File:

Download Yan_Li_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yang

Title:

Varying-Coefficient Models: New Models, Inference Procedures, and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Monte Carlo simulation
semi-parametric
semiparametric
nonparametric regression
kernel regression
local likelihood
generalized likelihood ratio test
cross validation
Time-varying-coefficient model
Nonlinear
Local Linear
Varying-coefficient Model
forecasting
bandwidth
bootstraping
bootstrap

File:

Download phdthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Damla Senturk, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yiyun

Title:

Regularization Parameter Selection for Variable Selection in High-dimensional Modelling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

GLIM
LASSO
Penalized Likelihood
SCAD
Variable Selection

File:

Download yiyun_phd_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member

Author:

Chung, Yeojin

Title:

LIKELIHOOD-TUNED DENSITY ESTIMATOR AND ITS APPLICATION TO CLUSTERING

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Nonparametric Density Estimation
Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood
Clustering
Bandwidth Selection
Nonparametric Mixture

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay / Jia Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jia Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member

Author:

Jiang, Yuejiao

Title:

Estimation and forecasting methodologies for nonparametric regression models via dynamic linear models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

nonparametric regression models
dynamic linear models

File:

Download YuejiaoJiangdissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavković, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Wang, Yu

Title:

Nonlinear Dimension Reduction in Feature Space

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Dimension Reduction
Feature Space

File:

Download NDRFS.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Bruce G. Lindsay, Committee Member
Hongyuan Zha, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Zhihui

Title:

THREE TOPICS ON DIMENSION REDUCTION

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

invariant aggregation
central space
dimension reduciton

File:

Download tang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Hongyuan Zha, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Zhe

Title:

hierarchical bayesian model development with applications in marketing

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

hierarchical bayesian model
MNP model
MDS

File:

Download Zhe.pdf

Committee Members:

Duncan Fong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Duncan Fong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Ping Xu, Committee Member
Wayne Desarbo, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Zhe

Title:

New modeling Procedures for Functional Data in Computer Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

functional linear model
functional ANOVA decomposition
multivariate kriging
computer experiment
semi-varying coefficient model
back-fitting algorithm

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
John Fricks, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

Zambom, Adriano Zanin

Title:

Hypothesis Testing and Variable Selection in Nonparametric Regression

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Hypothesis Testing
Variable Selection
Backward Elimination
Nonparametric Regression
False Discovery Rate
ANOVA-type tests

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael G Arkitas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Adam Smith, Special Member

Author:

Changpetch, Pannapa

Title:

Model Selection for Logistic Regression via Association Rules Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

association rules analysis
interaction effects
logistic regression models
model selection
equivalent models

File:

Download Thesis_Pannapa_Changpetch_final_version2.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
Dr Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Harriet Black Nembhard, 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:

Wang, Qing

Title:

Investigation of topics in U-statistics and their applications in risk estimation and cross-validation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

cross-validation
kernel estimator
likelihood risk
model selection
partition resampling
variance estimation
U-statistics

File:

Download PhDThesis_Qing.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G. Lindsay, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce G. Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Kurum, Esra

Title:

Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Binary and Continuous Responses: New Models, Statistical Procedures and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Joint Modeling
Longitudinal data analysis
Varying coefficient models
Partially linear models

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Special Member

Author:

Zhong, Wei

Title:

feature screening and variable selection for ultrahigh dimensional data analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

ultrahigh dimensionality
distance correlation
feature screening
sure screening property
variable selection

File:

Download PhD-Dissertation-Wei-Zhong-2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Kuang-yao

Title:

A GENERAL THEORY FOR NONLINEAR SUFFICIENT DIMENSION REDUCTION: FORMULATION AND ESTIMATION

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Dimension reduction σ-field
Unbiasedness
Exhaustiveness
sliced average variance estimator
sliced inverse regression

File:

Download kuang_yao_lees_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Dr Runze Li, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member

Author:

Jandarov, Roman A

Title:

Inference with implicit likelihoods for infectious disease models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Expensive likelihood
SIR model
Gaussian processes
emulation
infectious diseases
meningitis
measles.

File:

Download JandarovDissertationFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member

Author:

Simeonov, Ivan Botev

Title:

Spatial Point Process Modeling of Viral Infections in Cell Cultures

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Spatial Point Processes
pair correlation function
in vitro cell culture studies
parametric point process models

File:

Download PhdDissertationIvanSimeonov.pdf

Committee Members:

John Fricks, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Mary Poss, Special Member

Author:

Fu, Guifang

Title:

Statistical Models for Mapping Genes that Contribute to Shape Variation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

QTL
Statistical Genetics
Shape Analysis
Plant
Functional Data Analysis

File:

Download Guifang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Dr Jia Li, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Jialin

Title:

A Generalized Linear Model For Peak Calling in ChIP-Seq Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Generalized Linear Model
Negative binomial distribution
ChIP-Sequencing
Peak calling
FDR

File:

Download GLMNB_Thesis_JialinXu.pdf

Committee Members:

Yu Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Jingyuan

Title:

Statistical Methods for Different Ultrahigh Dimensional Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

ultrahigh dimension
varying coefficient model
partially linear model
feature screening

File:

Download dissertation_w_vita.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Liwang Cui, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Ying

Title:

New Models For Conditional Covariance Matrix

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

covariance estimation
smoothing spline
Cholesky decomposition
local linear regression
semi-parametric regression

File:

Download Thesis_Ying.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Seonjin

Title:

Three essays on nonparametric inference for longitudinal data and time series data.

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Locally stationary process
Longitudinal data
Measurement errors
Nonparametric inference
Quantile regression
Time series

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Special Member

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:

Nunes, Marcus Alexandre

Title:

Analysis of RNA-Seq Data with Excess of Zeros

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

generalized linear models
RNA-Seq
design of experiments
optimal

File:

Download marcus_nunes_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yu Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qunhua Li, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Special Member

Author:

Li, Xiaoye

Title:

Three Essays on Non-stationary Time Series

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Modulated Stationary
Self Normalization
Change-point Test
Long-run Variance
Autocovariance
Time-varying exogenous AR model
Sieve-wild Bootstrap

File:

Download phdsample2_copy.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Special Member

Author:

Lou, Lejia

Title:

Thresholded partial correlation approach for variable selection in linear models and partially linear models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Variable Selection
Linear Model
Partially Linear Model
Nonparametric Regression

File:

Download LejiaLou-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Wei

Title:

Performance criteria for control charts

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Average Run Length
Continuous Ranked Probability Score
Functional data
Goodness-of-fit
Paired Comparison.

File:

Download WeiWang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Le Bao, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Special Member

Author:

Li, Yihan

Title:

Methods in Multiple Testing and Meta-analysis with Applications to the Analysis of Genomic Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Multiple testing; Meta-analysis; Genomic data analysis; Microarr

File:

Download Yihan_LI_-_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Le Bao, Committee Member
Qunhua Li, Committee Member
Robert Paulson, Committee Member

Author:

Sie, Haskell

Title:

Statistical Aspects Of Computerized Adaptive Testing

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Item response theory
multidimensional model
likelihood function

File:

Download Haskell_Sie_-_Dissertation_2014_-_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pui Wa Lei, Committee Member
Mosuk Chow, Committee Member
Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Member

Author:

Hua, Wen-yu

Title:

Kernel Methods for Neuroimaging Genomewide Association Studies

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kernel methods
GWAS
Neuroimaging analysis; Multiple comparison procedures.

File:

Download WenYu-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Qunhua Li, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Special Member

Author:

Kuruppumullage Don, Prabhani

Title:

Estimation and Model Selection for Block Clustering with Mixtures: A Composite Likelihood Approach

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Block clustering
Composite Likelihood
EM algorithm
Mixture models

File:

Download Prabhani.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Member
Dr Aleksandra Slavkovic, Special Member

Author:

Tabacu, Lucia Maria

Title:

Logarithmic Quantile Estimation and Its Applications to Nonparametric Factorial Designs

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

logarithmic quantile
almost sure weak convergence
linear rank statistics
nonparametric factorial designs
Kruskal-Wallis test

File:

Download LuciaTabacu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Manfred Heinz Denker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael G Akritas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Fricks, Committee Member
Guodong Pang, Special Member

Author:

Bomiriya, Rashmi Pankajai

Title:

Topics in Exponential Random Graph Modeling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

ERGMs
networks
bipartite
homophily
semi-parametric Bayesian
infectious disease
SEIR

File:

Download RashmiBomiriya-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Russell Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
Rachel Annette Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Cai, Xizhen

Title:

model selection and survival analysis with application to large time-varying networks

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

penalized likelihood
proportional odds models
profile likelihood
partial likelihood
case control.

File:

Download Dissertation_with_vita.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Marcel Salathe, Committee Member

Author:

Luo, Wei

Title:

Efficient estimation and order determination for sufficient dimension reduction

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dimension reduction
order-determination
bootstrap
augmentation
semi-parametric
efficient estimation.

File:

Download dissertation_-_Wei_Luo.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member

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

Author:

Chang, Won

Title:

Climate Model Calibration Using High-Dimensional and Non-Gaussian Spatial Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Climate Model Calibration
Gaussian Process
High-dimensional Spatial Data
Non-Gaussian Spatial Data

File:

Download WonChang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Klaus Keller, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Donald Richards, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Xiaoyu

Title:

Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data: New Models, Computing Techniques and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Joint modeling
Longitudinal Study
Survival Analysis
EM-algorithm
Nonparametric

File:

Download Dissertation_X.Liu_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member

Author:

Philtron, Daisy Lahaina

Title:

Three novel procedures to control the false discovery rate

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Multiple testing
Reproducibility
Voronoi Diagram
Disjunction hypothesis

File:

Download Daisy_Philtron_-_Dissertation_Final_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qunhua Li, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member

Author:

ZHU, XIAOTIAN

Title:

Non-Parametric Finite Multivariate Mixture Models with Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

mixture model
conditional independence
nonparametric estimation
penalized smoothed likelihood
independent component analysis

File:

Download XTZ_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Russell Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
John C Liechty, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

YANG , HANYU

Title:

Statistical Models for Scalar Response with Longitudinal Covariates

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

longitudinal study
functional data
nonparametric regression
measurement error
generalized linear model
zero-inflated count

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member

Author:

Trail, Jessica Brooke

Title:

Dynamic Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data: New Models, Statistical Procedures, and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

intensive longitudinal data
dynamic systems
time-varying effects

File:

Download JessicaTrailDissertation3.pdf

Committee Members:

Linda Marie Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Fricks, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Kankam, Kwame Adu

Title:

Robust Parameter Design: A Penalized Likelihood Approach

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Penalized Likelihood
Design of Experiments
Coordinate Descent

File:

Download thesisfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Enrique Del Castillo, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Wei

Title:

Feature Screening in Ultra-high Dimensional Survival Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Cox’s model
feature screening
LASSO
SCAD
ultra-high dimensional survival data analysis
Gail-Simon test

File:

Download THESIS__final.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Qunhua Li, Committee Member
Arthur Steven Berg, Special Member

Author:

Yu, Ye

Title:

New Procedures for Cox's Model with High Dimensional Predicotrs

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Cox's model
Partial Likelihood
ultrahigh dimensional survival data
model selection consistency
Penalized Likelihood

File:

Download Ye_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member

Author:

Zhan, Xiang

Title:

Kernel Machine Methods With Applications to High-throughout Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kernel machines
Reproducing kernel Hilbert space
Genome-wide association study
Metabolite differential analysis

File:

Download Xiang_Zhan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qunhua Li, Committee Member
Andrew David Patterson, Committee Member
Yu Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Cho, Youngjoo

Title:

Semiparametric Analysis of Failure Time Data in the Presence of Dependent Censoring

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Bivariate Data
Failure Times
Perturbation Method
Resampling
U-statistics
Causal Inference
Observational Study

File:

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Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Yuan

Title:

Projection Test for High-dimensional Mean Vectors with Optimal Direction

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

High-dimensional data
Hotelling's T2 test
Projection test
One-sample problem
Two-sample problem

File:

Download YuanHuang_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Sae Na

Title:

Classification of Transients by Distance Measures

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Classification
Kullback-Leibler divergence
Kernel density estimation
Transients
Variable stars

File:

Download SaenaPark-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

G Jogesh Babu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
G Jogesh Babu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Fricks, Committee Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Eric B Ford, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yaqun

Title:

Inference of Gene Regulatory Network Based on Gene Expression Dynamics in Response to Environmental Signals

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Gene Regulatory Network
Gene Expression
Gene Cluster
DBN
Ordinary Differential Equation
Gene-Environment Interaction

File:

Download YaqunWang-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Ningtao

Title:

A Block Mixture Model To Map Eqtls For Gene Clustering

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

block mixture model
eQTL
gene cluster

File:

Download Ningtao_Wang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member