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Author:

Sun, Jianping

Title:

Composite Likelihood in Long Sequence Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Markov chain likelihood
modified Hoeffding score
Hoeffding score
coposite likelihood
mutation
recombiantion

File:

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Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Jiahan

Title:

THE BAYESIAN LASSO, BAYESIAN SCAD AND BAYESIAN GROUP LASSO WITH APPLICATIONS TO GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

lasso
variable selection
Bayesian approach
high-dimensional data

File:

Download JiahanLi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member

Author:

Das, Kiranmoy

Title:

SEMI-PARAMETRIC BAYESIAN FUNCTIONAL MAPPING WITH IRREGULAR SPARSE LONGITUDINAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Longitudinal data
functional mapping
MCMC

File:

Download Das_Kiranmoy_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Peter Cm Molenaar, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Weihan

Title:

A gradient model for studying genotype- environment interactions

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

QTL genotypes
EM algorithm

File:

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Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Qing

Title:

Investigation of topics in U-statistics and their applications in risk estimation and cross-validation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

cross-validation
kernel estimator
likelihood risk
model selection
partition resampling
variance estimation
U-statistics

File:

Download PhDThesis_Qing.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G. Lindsay, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce G. Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Huber-keener, Kathryn Joyce

Title:

Alterations In Gene Expression As A Response of Tumor Cells To Stresses

Graduate Program:

Pharmacology

Keywords:

eEF-2K
tamoxifen
glioma
breast cancer
protein synthesis
next generation-sequencing
protein stability

File:

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Committee Members:

Jin Ming Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G Levenson, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Committee Member
Willard Freeman, Committee Member
Andrea Manni, Committee 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:

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:

Lou, Lejia

Title:

Thresholded partial correlation approach for variable selection in linear models and partially linear models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Variable Selection
Linear Model
Partially Linear Model
Nonparametric Regression

File:

Download LejiaLou-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, 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:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Hao, Han

Title:

MODELING THE GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF COMPLEX TRAITS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

QTL mapping
Functional mapping
HANOVA
ODE

File:

Download HanHao-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Solea, Eftychia

Title:

Nonparametric graphical models for functional data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Additive conditional independence; additive correlation operator; additive precision operator; EEG; fMRI; gaussian graphical model; reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
Functional Principal Component Analysis
Hilbert space- valued random elements
Karhunen-Loeve expansion
Rank Correlation
Rank Transformation.

File:

Download EftychiaSolea-PhDDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Committee Member
Michael Akritas, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Gosik, Kirk D

Title:

STATISTICAL MODELS FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL SCREENING OF GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC EFFECTS

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics

Keywords:

variable-selection
gene-expression
eQTL
genetic-architecture
epigenetics

File:

Download Dissertation_KirkGosik.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Chinchilli, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member
James Broach, Outside Member

Author:

Wu, Di

Title:

INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN GREEN ASH RESPONSE TO AN INVASIVE INSECT

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

Green ash
genetic diversity
microsatellite marker
population structure
Green ash
genetic diversity
population structure
linkage map
single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
simple sequence repeats (SSRs)
genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS)
synteny
network analysis
differentially expressed genes
genome-wide association studies
linkage disequilibrium (LD)
segregation distortion (SD)

File:

Download DiWu_Dissertation_Summer2018.pdf

Committee Members:

John E. Carlson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John E. Carlson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse R. Lasky, Committee Member
Rongling Wu, Committee Member
Majid Foolad, Outside Member

Author:

Lyu, Yafei

Title:

STATISTICAL INTEGRATION OF GENOMIC DATA ACROSS LABS, PLATFORMS AND EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

High throughput sequencing
Data integration
Co-expression network
Copula
Graphical model
mixture model

File:

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Committee Members:

Qunhua Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qunhua Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yu Zhang, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Outside Member
Rongling Wu, Committee 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:

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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:

Chen, Chixiang

Title:

Statistical Models for Recovering Dynamic Gene Networks from Static Data

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics

Keywords:

The Genotype-Tissue Expression
Disease progression
Network learning
Ordinary differential equations
Quasi-dynamic network

File:

Download CCX_Penn_State_University_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Joanna Floros, Outside Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Xiang Zhan, Committee Member
Arthur Steven Berg, Program Head/Chair
Ming Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yan, Runan

Title:

Investigation of the effect of microbiota on the survival and culturability of Campylobacter spp.

Graduate Program:

Food Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Campylobacter
chicken meat microbiota
culturability
survival
viability qPCR
cold storage

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Committee Members:

Jasna Kovac, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nkuchia M'ikanatha, Special Member
Edward Dudley, Major Field Member
Catherine Cutter, Major Field Member
Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sudhakar Shetty, Samidha

Title:

Statistical Analysis of Missing Not at Random Problems with a Nonparametric Regression Model and Semiparametric Missingness Mechanism.

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Efficient influence function model misspecification
nonignorable missing data
propensity of missing data
robust estimation
semiparametric statistics.
Nonignorable missing data
Semiparametric statistics
Efficient influence function
Robust estimation
Efficient estimation

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Yanyuan Ma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaoyue Niu, Major Field Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member