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Author:

Siapoutis, Nikolas

Title:

MEAN SHRINKAGE ESTIMATORS IN HILBERT SPACES

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Shrinkage Estimation
Hilbert Space
Minimax Rates
Non-parametric
Mean Estimators

File:

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Committee Members:

Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Meng

Title:

Dual Estimation in State Space Models with Violation to Normality: A Comparison between the Extended Kalman Filter and the Particle Filter

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

state space model
Kalman filter
particle filter
dual estimation

File:

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Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Le Bao, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Agarwal, Amal

Title:

Model-Based Clustering of Nonparametric Weighted Networks

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Exponential-family random graphical model
Local likelihood
Variational inference

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

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:

Johnston, Ann

Title:

Register based human population size estimation: a geometric perspective toward assessing sensitivity to unverifiable independence assumptions

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Log-linear models
Capture-recapture
Sensitivity analysis
Data integration
Official statistics

File:

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Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Murali Haran, 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:

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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:

Saram, Thilini

Title:

Demand Estimation with Missingness of Product Availability

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Discrete choice models
EM algorithms
Missing variables

File:

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Committee Members:

David Hunter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prabhani Kuruppumullage Don, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, 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:

Download Ilias_Moysidis_-_Dissertation.pdf

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:

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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