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Author:

Groendyke, Christophe

Title:

Ratio-of-Uniforms Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Gaussian Process Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

spatial statistics
Markov chain Monte Carlo
auxiliary variable methods
ratio of uniforms

File:

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Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hummel, Ruth M

Title:

IMPROVING ESTIMATION FOR EXPONENTIAL-FAMILY RANDOM GRAPH MODELS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

composite likelihood
penalized likelihood
pseudolikelihood
maximum likelihood estimation
exponential random graph model
bias correction
Mean value parameterization
%Maximum likelihood estimation
parameter estimation
Markov chain Monte Carlo
Exponential family random graph model
contrastive divergence
exponential families
convex hull

File:

Download RuthMHummel-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Russell Hunter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Scott David Gest, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Rong

Title:

MULTIPLE IMPUTATION FOR MISSING ITEMS IN MULTI-THEMED QUESTIONNAIRES

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

factor model
EM algorithm
Markov chain Monte Carlo
incomplete data

File:

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Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Schafer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
D Wayne Osgood, Committee Member

Author:

Olson, Roman

Title:

How Well Can Historical Temperature Observations Constrain Climate Sensitivity

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Climate sensitivity
internal climate variability
Gaussian Process
climate model
Markov chain Monte Carlo

File:

Download RO_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Klaus Keller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member

Author:

Goldstein, Joshua Randall

Title:

Compartmental, Spatial, and Point Process Models for Infectious Diseases

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

infectious disease models
SIR models
spatial point processes
Gaussian processes
Markov chain Monte Carlo

File:

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Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Fricks, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Committee 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:

Kang, Bokgyeong

Title:

Computational Methods and Spatial Models with Intractable Likelihoods

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Intractable likelihood
Hawkes process
Sample quality measure
Markov chain Monte Carlo
Spatially-varying dispersion
Zero inflation
Conway-Maxwell Poisson

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Matthew Ferrari, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Berg, Major Field Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Major Field Member
John Hughes, Special Member
Murali Haran, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Reimel, Karly

Title:

Leveraging polarimetric radar observations to learn about rain microphysics: An exploration of parameter estimation, uncertainty quantification, and observational information content with BOSS

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (PHD)

Keywords:

meteorology
rain
radar
polarimetric radar
microphysics
Bayesian inference
Markov chain Monte Carlo
BOSS
drop size distribution

File:

Download Dissertation_ReimelKJ_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven Greybush, Major Field Member
Julio Urbina, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Kumjian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Didlake, Major Field Member
Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Special Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair