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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:

Chang, Juan

Title:

A Study of Benford's Law, With Applications to the Analysis of Corporate Financial Statements

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Benford's Law
Pearson's chi-square test
discrete Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
goodness-of-fit test
finances

File:

Download JuanChangThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald St. P. Richards, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David R. Hunter, Committee Member
James L. Rosenberger, Committee Member

Author:

Kani, Amirali

Title:

A Factorial Hidden Markov Model for Modeling Dynamics in Intrinsic Preferences

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Dynamic Models
Hidden Markov Models
Brand Choice
Market Segmentation

File:

Download AmiraliKani-MasterThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David Hunter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Xu, Zhanxiong

Title:

Efficient parameter estimation methods using quantile regression in heteroscedastic models

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

quantile regression
heteroscedastic models
optimal weighting
composite quantile regression

File:

Download Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhibiao Zhao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Kevin Haeseung

Title:

Statistical Learning of Complex Large-Scale Dynamic Systems

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistical learning
Model-based clustering
Dynamic networks
Graphical model
EM algorithm
Variational inference

File:

Download Kevin_Lee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R. Hunter, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Nanyin Zhang, Outside Member
Mark S. Handcock, Special Member

Author:

Constantinou, Panayiotis

Title:

TESTING SEPARABILITY OF FUNCTIONAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Separability
Functional data
Space-time processes
Functional panels

File:

Download Panayiotis_Constantinou-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael G Akritas, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
John C Liechty, Outside 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:

Guan, Yawen

Title:

Reduced-dimensional Non-Gaussian Spatial Models and Statistical Methods for Studying the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Spatial Model
Non-Gaussian Spatial Data
Markov chain Monte Carlo Expectation Maximization
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Glacier Dynamics
Bayesian Hierarchical Model
Gaussian Process
Latent Gaussian Process Model

File:

Download YawenGuan-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Outside Member

Author:

Choi, Hyunphil

Title:

Confidence Regions and Bands : for Functional Parameters and Hypothesis Testing Inversion

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Functional Data Analysis
Hypothesis Testing
Confidence Regions
Confidence Bands
Principal Component Analysis
Gaussian Process
Distribution Goodness-of-Fit Tests
Kolmogorov-Smirnov
Anderson-Darling
Time Series
Bootstrap
Test-Inversion
Market Predictability

File:

Download Thesis_HyunphilChoi_0622A.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bing Li, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Committee Member
Timothy T Simin, Outside Member

Author:

Lin, Junli

Title:

Copula Versions of RKHS-Based and Distance-Based Criteria

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

kernel methods
permutation method
two-sample problems
copula
kernel methods
permutation methods
V-statistic

File:

Download JunliLin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Akritas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Reimherr, Committee Member
Bharath Sriperumbudur, Committee Member
Jesse Barlow, Outside Member

Author:

Ye, Jingyi

Title:

New Statistical Procedures for Analysis of HIV Data and High Dimensional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

HIV
prevalence and incidence
incidence assay data
refitted cross-validation
high dimension data
varying coefficient model
varying error variance

File:

Download Jingyi_Ye-_final_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Le Bao, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Outside Member

Author:

Qiao, Mu

Title:

Visual Analytics Through Gaussian Mixture Models with Subspace Constrained Component Means

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

visualization
high dimensionality
dimension reduction
subspace
Gaussian mixture model

File:

Download Mu_Qiao_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jia Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jia Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ensley, John Robert

Title:

Bayesian Semiparametric Covariance Function Estimation for Stationary Gaussian Processes by Overwhelming Force

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Gaussian process
bayesian
covariance function
mcmc
parallel computing
penalized splines
spectral density
monte carlo integration
semiparametric

File:

Download Ensley-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin Adam Shaby, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member