Dissertation

Essay

2013

Rachel Becvarik Title: NONPARAMETRIC NONSTATIONARY DENSITY ESTIMATION INCLUDING UPPER CONTROL LIMIT METHODS FOR DETECTING CHANGE POINTS Seung-Yeon Ha Title: THEORIES ON GROUP VARIABLE SELECTION IN MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION MODELS Ester Kim Nilles Title: AN ENSEMBLE APPROACH TO PREDICTING HEALTH OUTCOMES Kelly McGinnity Title: NONPARAMETRIC WAVELET THRESHOLDING AND PROFILE MONITORING FOR NON-GAUSSIAN ERRORS Gretchen Rivera Title: META ANALYSIS AND META REGRESSION OF A MEASURE OF DISCRIMINATION USED IN PROGNOSTIC MODELING Jingyong Su Title: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF TRAJECTORIES ON RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS Yuanyuan Tang Title: BAYESIAN METHODS FOR SKEWED RESPONSE INCLUDING LONGITUDINAL AND HETEROSCEDASTIC DATA Yingfeng Tao Title: THE FREQUENTIST PERFORMANCE OF SOME BAYESIAN CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR THE SURVIVAL FUNCTION Felicia Williams Title: THE RELATIONSHIP OF DIABETES TO CORONARY HEART DISEASE MORTALITY: A META-ANALYSIS BASED ON PERSON-LEVEL DATA

2012

Emilola Abayomi Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY MASS AND BLOOD PRESSURE IN DIVERSE POPULATIONS Rommel Bain Title: Monte Carlo Likelihood Estimation for Conditional Autoregressive Models with Application to Sparse Spatiotemporal Data Jordan Cuevas Title: ESTIMATION AND SEQUENTIAL MONITORING OF NONLINEAR FUNCTIONAL RESPONSES USING WAVELET SHRINKAGE Jennifer Geis Title: ADAPTIVE CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS WITH CONSIDERATIONS FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL MATRICES: A WEIGHTED RANK SELECTION CRITERION APPROACH WITH A HIV/NEU Sebastian Kurtek Title: Riemannian Shape Analysis of Curves and Surfaces Jianchang Lin Title: Semiparametric Bayesian survival analysis using models with log-linear median Daniel Osborne Title: NONPARAMETRIC DATA ANALYSIS ON MANIFOLDSWITH APPLICATIONS IN MEDICAL IMAGING

2011

Lindsey Bell Title: A STATISTICAL APPROACH FOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION OF BIOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS Leif Ellingson Title: STATISTICAL SHAPE ANALYSIS ON MANIFOLDS WITH APPLICATIONS TO PLANAR CONTOURS AND STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS Yu Gu Title: NEW SEMIPARAMETRIC METHODS FOR RECURRENT EVENTS DATA Paul Hill Title: Bootstrap Prediction Bands for Non-Parametric Function Signals in a Complex System Robert Holden Title: Failure Time Regression Models for Thinned Point Processes Vernon Lawhern Title: STATISTICAL MODELLING AND APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL SPIKE TRAINS Wei Liu Title: A RIEMANNIAN FRAMEWORK FOR ANNOTATED CURVES ANALYSIS Greg Miller Title: INVESTIGATING THE USE OF MORTALITY DATA AS A SURROGATE FOR MORBIDITY DATA Senti Ncube Title: A Novel Riemannian Metric for Analyzing Spherical Functions with Applications to HARDI Data Tamika Royal-Thomas Title: INTERRELATING OF LONGITUDINAL PROCESSES: AN EMPIRICAL EXAMPLE Anqi Tang Title: A CLASS OF MIXED-DISTRIBUTION MODELS WITH APPLICATIONS IN FINANCIAL DATA ANALYSIS Feng Zhao Title: BAYESIAN PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION WITH TIME-VARYING FACTOR MODELS

2010

Matthew Dutton Title: INDIVIDUAL PATIENT-LEVEL DATA META-ANALYSIS: A COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR THE DIVERSE POPULATIONS COLLABORATION DATA SET Xiaoyun Li Title: ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE DATA WITH RANDOM CLUSTER SIZE