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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:

Waterhouse, Lynn

Title:

Model Testing for Partially Linear Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

partially linear models
sliced inverse regression
ANOVA
power
R

File:

Download LynnWaterhouse_StatThesis_final_edits.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Kraus, Lauren Elise

Title:

Classification of Pennsylvania Bat Species by Discriminant Analysis of Echolocation Calls

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

discriminant analysis
echolocation
bat echolocation calls
Indiana bat
white nose syndrome

File:

Download Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

You, Cheng

Title:

Machine Learning Methods in Portfolio Replication

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

machine learning
portfolio replication
LASSO
LARS
trading strategies
hidden Markov model
hierarchical modelling

File:

Download ChengYou-MasterThesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Ryder Morton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Khoury, Nicole Leighanne

Title:

Investigating Community Annoyance from Impulsive Noise Using Geostatistical Methods

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Spatial Modeling
Noise
NASA
Geostatistics

File:

Download Khoury_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Fang, Qi

Title:

Potential Energy Distance based Image Retrieval

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Image Retrieval
Potential Energy Distance

File:

Download Potential_Energy_Distance_based_Image_Retrieval.pdf

Committee Members:

Jia Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Le Bao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Russell Hunter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Altinisik, Yasin

Title:

Intrablock, Interblock and Combined Estimates in Incomplete Block Designs: A Numerical Study

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Balanced Incomplete Block Designs
Intrablock Estimates
Interblock Estimates
Combined Estimates
Precision Increase

File:

Download Yasin_Altinisik_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Samuel, Gilna K

Title:

A Probabilistic Analysis of Autocallable Optimization Securities

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Reverse Convertible Note
Autocallable Optimization Securities
Law of Total Expectation
Expected Net Payment
Fiduciary Duty

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Richards, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Davanloo Tajbakhsh, Sam

Title:

A Fully Bayesian Approach to the Efficient Global Optimization Algorithm

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Global optimization
geostatistics
hierarchical model
expected improvement

File:

Download MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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