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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:

Cai, Xizhen

Title:

model selection and survival analysis with application to large time-varying networks

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

penalized likelihood
proportional odds models
profile likelihood
partial likelihood
case control.

File:

Download Dissertation_with_vita.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Marcel Salathe, Committee Member