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Author:

Dziak, John Joseph

Title:

PENALIZED QUADRATIC INFERENCE FUNCTIONS FOR VARIABLE SELECTION IN LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

SCAD
LASSO
QIF
GEE
generalized estimating equations
variable selection

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Linda Marie Collins, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Min Kyung

Title:

On Dimension Folding of Matrix or Array Valued Statistical Objects

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kronecker Envelop
Directional Regression
Sliced Inverse Regression
Sliced Average Variance Estimate

File:

Download Minkyung-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member

Author:

Yao, Weixin

Title:

On using mixtures and modes of mixtures in data analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

robust regression
label switching
mixtures

File:

Download thesisdraftnew.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce G Lindsay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Dong, Yuexiao

Title:

Dimension Reduction for the Conditional Kth Moment via Central Solution Space

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dimension reduction space
central space
central solution space
central kth moment solution space
central kth moment space

File:

Download dong_master.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Yiyun

Title:

Regularization Parameter Selection for Variable Selection in High-dimensional Modelling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

GLIM
LASSO
Penalized Likelihood
SCAD
Variable Selection

File:

Download yiyun_phd_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member

Author:

Zambom, Adriano Zanin

Title:

Hypothesis Testing and Variable Selection in Nonparametric Regression

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Hypothesis Testing
Variable Selection
Backward Elimination
Nonparametric Regression
False Discovery Rate
ANOVA-type tests

File:

Download Adriano_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael G Arkitas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Adam Smith, 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:

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:

Luo, Wei

Title:

Efficient estimation and order determination for sufficient dimension reduction

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dimension reduction
order-determination
bootstrap
augmentation
semi-parametric
efficient estimation.

File:

Download dissertation_-_Wei_Luo.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee 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:

Xu, Zhuying

Title:

Locally Stationary Quantile Regression For Inflation and Interest Rates

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Locally stationary model; Nonparametric estimation; Quantile reg

File:

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Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Artemiou, Andreas A

Title:

Topics on Supervised and Unsupervised Dimension Reduction

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Unitary invariance
Regression
Kernel principal components
Sufficient Dimension Reduction
Support Vector Machines

File:

Download Dissertation_doc.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Michael Akritas, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Adam Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Dong, Yuexiao

Title:

Dimension Reduction for Non-elliptically Distributed Predictors

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

central space
dimension reduction
solution space
non-ellipticity

File:

Download dong_phd.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael G. Akritas, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Dennis K. J. Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Jun

Title:

Dimension reduction for functional data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

dimension reduction
random operator
supervised machine learning
unsupervised machine learning
functional data analysis
handwriting data
speech recognition data
dimension reduction
random operator
supervised machine learning
unsupervised machine learning
functional data analysis
handwriting data
speech recognition data

File:

Download Thesis_Jun.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S. Altman, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Christopher Parker, Outside Member
Matthew Reimherr, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Songshan

Title:

TIME-VARYING EFFECT MODEL FOR STUDYING GROUP DIFFERENCE IN HEALTH BEHAVIOR

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Time varying-coefficient effect model

File:

Download Penn_State_University_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Songshan

Title:

NEW STATISTICAL ANALYTIC TOOLS FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

High Dimensional Data
Feature Screening
Statistical Inference

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Outside Member

Author:

Kang, Hyun Bin

Title:

Functional Manifold Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Data Analysis
Shape Analysis
Object Oriented Data Analysis
Manifold Learning
Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space

File:

Download HyunBinKang_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Mark Shriver, Outside Member

Author:

Yu, Xiufan

Title:

Nonparametric Estimation of Sufficient Forecasting with a Diverging Number of Factors

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

factor model
forecasting
principal components
high-dimensional predictors
nonparametric estimation
predictive inference

File:

Download MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Changcheng

Title:

Topics in High-dimensional Statistical Inference

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Hotelling T2 test
Multiple sample mean test
Projection test
Two-sample mean test
Causal structural learning
Causal discovery
Causal graphical models
D-separation set
Generalized Method of Moments

File:

Download ChangchengLi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

Nandy, Debmalya

Title:

COVARIATE INFORMATION: A NOVEL APPROACH TO SUFFICIENT DIMENSION REDUCTION & FEATURE SCREENING FOR ULTRAHIGH-DIMENSIONAL COVARIATES IN SUPERVISED PROBLEMS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Fisher information
Density information
Supervised problems
Sufficient dimension reduction
Feature screening
Ultrahigh dimension
Bootstrap

File:

Download PennState_StatisticsPhDDissertation_Final_eTD_081619.pdf

Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Weixin Yao, Special Member