Recent Dissertation Topics
STATISTICS
----- 2007 -----
De, Arkendra
"Influence of Stepping Stone Spatial Structure on Common Population Genetic Statistics"
January 2007
Milanovici, Florian
"Continuous - Time Tail Index Estimation"
January 2007
Zhou, Gongfu
"Generalized Bayes Minimax Estimators of the Mean of Multivariate Normal Distributions with Application to Multiple Testing Problems"
January 2007
----- 2006 -----
Anderson, William
"The Potential Approach to the Term Structure of Interest Rates and Bond Pricing, and Time-Changed Levy Processes and European Options Pricing"
August 2006
Balakanapathy, Rajaratnam
"Asymptotic Equivalence for Markov Chains and Eigenvalue Estimation In The Marginal Likelihood Framework"
August 2006
Wang, Chong
"ROC Analysis for Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Disease Diagnostic Data Without a Gold Standard Test: Application to Johne's Disease in Dairy Cows"
August 2006
----- 2005 -----
Denogean, Lisa
"Improved Approximations of the Density Functions of Estimators in Population Genetics"
August 2005
Sainudiin, Raazesh
"Machine Interval Experiments"
May 2005
Yu, Long
"Bayesian Analysis of Levy Processes with Financial Applications"
August 2005
Zhao, Xin
"Objective Bayesian Inference in General (Generalized) Linear Mixed Models Using Reference Priors"
May 2005
----- 2004 -----
Briggs, William
"Assessing the value of Yes/No forecasts"
January 2004
Madsen, Lisa
"Regression with Spatially Misaligned Data"
May 2004
Qiu, Jing
"Sharp Simultaneous Intervals For the Means of Selected Populations with Application to Microarray Data Analysis"
August 2004
Zaretzki, Russell
"Condiional properties of a parametric bootstrap"
August 2004
----- 2003 -----
Crainiceanu, Ciprian
"Nonparametric Likelihood Ratio Testing"
August 2003
El-Sheneity, Sahar
"Alternative method to MLE in the logistic discrimination
model"
August 2003
Tom, Matthew
"A Lattice Path Method for Exact Conditional Inference"
May 2003
Zhang, Dabao
"Bayesian Inference for Differential Gene Expression Data"
August 2003
BIOMETRY
----- 2007 -----
Sanchez, Fabio
"Studies in Epidemiology and Social Dynamics"
January 2007
Wong, Wendy
"Applications of Molecular Evolution in the Genomic Era"
January 2007
----- 2006 -----
Liu, Peng
"Sample Size Calculation and Empirical Bayes Tests for Microarray Data"
August 2006
Zhu, Lan
"Composite Likelihood and Regression Based Methods For Inferring Population Genetic Parameters From DNA Sequences"
August 2006
----- 2005 -----
Nuno, Miriam
"Mathematical Models for the Dynamics of Influenza at Population and Host Level"
May 2005
Zhang, Min
"Inference for Sparse and Asymmetric Signals in High Dimensional Data with Applications to Statistical Genomics"
August 2005
----- 2003 -----
Fink, Daniel
"Adaptive Multi-Order Penalized Splines"
January 2003
