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Author:

Liu, Xiaoyu

Title:

Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data: New Models, Computing Techniques and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Joint modeling
Longitudinal Study
Survival Analysis
EM-algorithm
Nonparametric

File:

Download Dissertation_X.Liu_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member

Author:

Philtron, Daisy Lahaina

Title:

Three novel procedures to control the false discovery rate

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Multiple testing
Reproducibility
Voronoi Diagram
Disjunction hypothesis

File:

Download Daisy_Philtron_-_Dissertation_Final_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qunhua Li, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member

Author:

ZHU, XIAOTIAN

Title:

Non-Parametric Finite Multivariate Mixture Models with Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

mixture model
conditional independence
nonparametric estimation
penalized smoothed likelihood
independent component analysis

File:

Download XTZ_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Russell Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
John C Liechty, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

YANG , HANYU

Title:

Statistical Models for Scalar Response with Longitudinal Covariates

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

longitudinal study
functional data
nonparametric regression
measurement error
generalized linear model
zero-inflated count

File:

Download HanyuYang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Ye

Title:

A New Variable Screening Procedure for COX'S Model

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

screening
COX's model
high dimensional
iterative procedure

File:

Download MS_final_YeYU_1202.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Trail, Jessica Brooke

Title:

Dynamic Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data: New Models, Statistical Procedures, and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

intensive longitudinal data
dynamic systems
time-varying effects

File:

Download JessicaTrailDissertation3.pdf

Committee Members:

Linda Marie Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Fricks, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Kankam, Kwame Adu

Title:

Robust Parameter Design: A Penalized Likelihood Approach

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Penalized Likelihood
Design of Experiments
Coordinate Descent

File:

Download thesisfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Enrique Del Castillo, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Wei

Title:

Feature Screening in Ultra-high Dimensional Survival Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Cox’s model
feature screening
LASSO
SCAD
ultra-high dimensional survival data analysis
Gail-Simon test

File:

Download THESIS__final.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Qunhua Li, Committee Member
Arthur Steven Berg, Special Member

Author:

Yu, Ye

Title:

New Procedures for Cox's Model with High Dimensional Predicotrs

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Cox's model
Partial Likelihood
ultrahigh dimensional survival data
model selection consistency
Penalized Likelihood

File:

Download Ye_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member

Author:

Ou, Lu

Title:

Value-at-risk forecasting based on the Asymmetric Exponential Power distribution

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Asymmetric Exponential Power distribution
Value-at-risk
Forecasting

File:

Download STATMS.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhan, Xiang

Title:

Kernel Machine Methods With Applications to High-throughout Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kernel machines
Reproducing kernel Hilbert space
Genome-wide association study
Metabolite differential analysis

File:

Download Xiang_Zhan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qunhua Li, Committee Member
Andrew David Patterson, Committee Member
Yu Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Cho, Youngjoo

Title:

Semiparametric Analysis of Failure Time Data in the Presence of Dependent Censoring

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Bivariate Data
Failure Times
Perturbation Method
Resampling
U-statistics
Causal Inference
Observational Study

File:

Download Youngjoo_Cho-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Yuan

Title:

Projection Test for High-dimensional Mean Vectors with Optimal Direction

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

High-dimensional data
Hotelling's T2 test
Projection test
One-sample problem
Two-sample problem

File:

Download YuanHuang_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Sae Na

Title:

Classification of Transients by Distance Measures

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Classification
Kullback-Leibler divergence
Kernel density estimation
Transients
Variable stars

File:

Download SaenaPark-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

G Jogesh Babu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
G Jogesh Babu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Fricks, Committee Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Eric B Ford, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yaqun

Title:

Inference of Gene Regulatory Network Based on Gene Expression Dynamics in Response to Environmental Signals

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Gene Regulatory Network
Gene Expression
Gene Cluster
DBN
Ordinary Differential Equation
Gene-Environment Interaction

File:

Download YaqunWang-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Ningtao

Title:

A Block Mixture Model To Map Eqtls For Gene Clustering

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

block mixture model
eQTL
gene cluster

File:

Download Ningtao_Wang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Won Chul

Title:

Nonparametric Independence Screening And Test-based Screening Via The Variance Of The Regression Function

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Sure independence screening
test-based screening
Ultrahigh dimensionality

File:

Download WonchulSong_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Special Member

Author:

Bagyan, Armine

Title:

Central Limit Theorems for Randomly Modulated Sequences of Random Vectors with Resampling and Applications to Statistics

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

limit theorems
random modulation
ergodic stationary sequences
sequences of vectors
resampling

File:

Download Dissertation_ArmineBagyan.pdf

Committee Members:

Arkady Tempelman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Yang

Title:

Approaches to reduce and integrate data in structured and high-dimensional regression problems in Genomics

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Data integration
Genomics
Ordinary least squares
Structured data
Sufficient dimension reduction
Variable selection

File:

Download YangLiu-Dissertation_081615.pdf

Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Mary Poss, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Weijie

Title:

Dimensional Analysis in Statistics: Theories, Methodologies and Applications

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Dimensional analysis
Empirical model
Physical system
Quantitative analysis
Scale invariant
Similarity
Statistics

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Special Member