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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:

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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:

Rao, Aniruddha Rajendra

Title:

COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT DENSITY ESTIMATORS FOR INFINITE DIMENSIONAL EXPONENTIAL FAMILIES

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kernel Methods
Density Estimation
Exponential Family
Computation
Infinite Dimension

File:

Download Aniruddha_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Bharath Sriperumbudur, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Ephraim Hanks, Committee Member
Benjamin Shaby, Committee 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:

Yu, Xiufan

Title:

Nonparametric Estimation of Sufficient Forecasting with a Diverging Number of Factors

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

factor model
forecasting
principal components
high-dimensional predictors
nonparametric estimation
predictive inference

File:

Download MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee 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:

Download Dissertation_of_Ling_Zhang.pdf

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:

Wright, Isaac

Title:

Empirical Evaluation of the Efficient Market Hypothesis: A Machine Learning Approach

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Financial Markets
Efficient Market Hypothesis
Random Forest
Boosting
GLM
stocks

File:

Download IsaacWright_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jia Li, Committee Member
John C Liechty, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

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

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:

Download PennState_StatisticsPhDDissertation_Final_eTD_081619.pdf

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