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Author:

Thomas, Rebecca Ferrell

Title:

Enamel Defects, Well-being and Mortality in a Medieval Danish Village

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

paleopathology
microstructure
Denmark
dental anthropology
enamel defects
paleodemography
paleoepidemiology
survival analysis
maximum likelihood estimation

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James William Wood, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Robert Milner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Schoen, Committee Member
Alan Walker, Committee Member
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, 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