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Author:

Metcalf, Alexander Leventon

Title:

Human dimensions of private forest landownership: sampling, estimation, decision making processes, and implications

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

landowners
statistics
spatial
landuse
survey
mixed methods

File:

Download Metcalf_Alexander_Dissertation07152010.pdf

Committee Members:

James Craig Finley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Craig Finley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Albert E Luloff, Committee Member
Barbara Muth, Committee Member
Eric Zenner, Committee Member
Richard C Stedman, Committee Member

Author:

Wade , Barbara

Title:

Statistical Literacy in Adult College Students

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

statistical literacy
adult education
statistics
attitudes and statistics
beliefs and statistics
research methods and statistics

File:

Download 01_FINAL_4_6_2009_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Ed Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward W Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Member
Pamela Preston, Committee Member
John Basil Urenko, Committee Member

Author:

Mauch, James William

Title:

Social Mathematics in the Curriculum of American Civics: An Analysis of Selected National and State Standards and of Magruder's American Government

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

statistics
mathematics
numeracy
innumeracy
quantitative literacy
social mathematics
civics
citizenship
social studies

File:

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Committee Members:

Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murry R Nelson, Committee Member
Marilyn L Page, Committee Member
John B Frantz, Committee Member

Author:

Myers, Tanya L

Title:

Analysis of the International Residential Code 2006 Low Rise Wood Frame Building Bracing Requirements for Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

braced walls
shear walls
bracing
wind records
wind speeds
statistics
engineering
structural
residential
low
low rise
low rise buildings
wood construction
houses
housing
Wood frame construction
IRC 2006
2006
International Residential Code
IRC
loads
lateral loads
wind
ASCE 7
gypsum walls
exterior walls
interior walls
structural panels
analytical model
rigid beam model
rigid plate model
extreme wind
wind engineering

File:

Download TanyaMyersMSThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Kasal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bohumil Kasal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Austin, Stefanie Rose

Title:

Multiple Hypothesis Testing of Discrete Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

statistics
hypothesis testing
multiple testing
false discovery rate
FDR
discrete
benjamini and hochberg
null hypotheses

File:

Download Austin_Stefanie_Master_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Naomi S Altman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chen, Yalei

Title:

Investigating the cellular functions of kinesin, microtubules and +TIPs using in vitro reconstitution, microscale engineering and novel statistical techniques

Graduate Program:

Cell and Developmental Biology

Keywords:

microtubule
kinesin
cellulose synthase
spindle
micro-fabrication
in vitro reconstitution
statistics

File:

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Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melissa Rolls, Committee Member
Christopher Martin Yengo, Committee Member
Richard Cyr, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Nelson, Elliot Luke

Title:

Non-gaussian Statistics as a Probe of the Early Universe

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

cosmology
inflation
primordial perturbations
cosmic microwave background
statistics
non-Gaussianity
cosmic variance

File:

Download ElliotNelson-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin Bojowald, Committee Member
Eugenio Bianchi, Committee Member
Donghui Jeong, Special 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:

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:

Sheen, Emily Marie

Title:

An Exploration of Mixed Effects Models for Analysis of Infant Weight Gain Trajectories

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

generalized linear mixed models
statistics
biostatistics
microbiome
INSIGHT
mixed effects random forest

File:

Download EmilySheen-MS-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member