Theses and Dissertations

Optimal Design of Experiments

Linwei Hu

PhD 2014

Major Professor(s): John Stufken

Bayesian Multiple Testing Under Dependence with Application to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Andrew Brown

PhD 2013

Major Professor(s): Nicole Lazar and Gauri Datta



Extreme Value Estimators for Various Non-Negative Time Series with Heavy-Tail Innovations

Andrew Bartlett

PhD 2013

Major Professor(s): William McCormick



Mixture Poisson Point Process: Assessing Heterogeneity in EMA Analysis



Nat Kulvanich

PhD 2013

Major Professor(s): Stephen L. Rathbun



Design of cost-effective cancer biomarker reproducibility studies

Stephanie Carrieann Cooke

MS 2012

Major Professor(s): Kevin Dobbins



Predicting outcomes of mixed martial arts fights with novel fight variables

Jeremiah Douglas Johnson

MS 2012

Major Professor(s): Daniel Hall



Nonparametric analysis of time series with complex features

Cong Feng

PhD 2012

Major Professor(s): Lynne Seymour



Assessment of nonparametric frontier models applied to socially responsible investment

Andrew Hoss

MS 2011

Major Professor(s): Cheolwoo Park



Nonparametric GARCH models for financial volatility

Siyan S Hu

MS 2011

Major Professor(s): Lily Wang



Using regression based methods for time-constrained scaling of parallel processor computing applications

Jeonifer Garren

MS 2010

Major Professor(s): Jaxk Reeves



Statistical study of the decay lifetimes of the photo-excited DNA nucleobase Adenine

Zhuofei Hou

MS 2010



Major Professor(s): Jaxk Reeves



Derivation of the complete transcriptome of escherichia coli from microarray data

Kan Bao

MS 2009

Major Professor(s): Ying Xu



A review of ruin probability models

Brian James Fullilove

MS 2009

Major Professor(s): William McCormick



The coordination of design and analysis techniques for functional magnetic resonance imaging data

Sarah Rose Bednarski

MS 2009

Major Professor(s): Nicole Lazar



Effect of common errors in microsatellite data on estimates of population differentiation and inferring genotypic structure of complex disease loci using genome-wide expression data

Ellen Hepfer Breazel

PhD 2008

Major Professor(s): Paul Schliekelman



Applications of empirical likelihood to quantile estimation and longitudinal data

Jien Chen

PhD 2008

Major Professor(s): Nicole Lazar



Statistical methods for turtle bycatch data

Johnathan Eugene Dean

MS 2008

Major Professor(s): Dan Hall



Penalized principal component regression

Ayanna Nkenge Byrd

MS 2008

Major Professor(s): Cheolwoo Park



Estimation of the seed dispersal distribution with genotypic data

Yimei Cai

PhD 2007Major Professor(s):Jaxk Reeves



Estimation of the seed dispersal distribution with genotypic data

Yimei Cai

PhD 2007

Major Professor(s): Jaxk Reeves



Inference for controlled branching process, bayesian inference for zero-inflated count data and bayesian techniques for hairline fracture detection and reconstruction

Archan Bhattacharya

PhD 200

7Major Professor(s): Gauri S. Datta, T. N. Sriram



Determining bidder characteristics: an application of a bilinear mixed model in online auctions

Mayukh Dass

MS 2007

Major Professor(s): Lynne Seymour



Multivariate association and dimension reduction

Ross Iaci

PhD 2007

Major Professor(s): Xiangrong Yin, T.N. Sriram



Maximum likelihood based estimation of hazard function under shape restrictions and related statistical inference

Desale Habtzghi

PhD 2006

Major Professor(s): Somnath Datta



Implementing selc (sequential elimination of level combinations) for practitioners -new statistical softwares

Tan Ding

MS 2006

Major Professor(s): Abhyuday Mandal



Novel nonparametric methods for event time data

Dipankar Bandyopadhyay

PhD 2006

Major Professor(s): Somnath Datta



An evaluation of airbags

Tremika Rahchell Finney

MS 2005

Major Professor(s): Mary Meyer



Semiparametric ancova using shape restrictions

Yan Jiang

PhD 2005

Major Professor(s): Mary Meyer



Mixed effects models for a directional response: a case study with loblolly pine microfibril angle

Lewis Charles Jordan

MS 2005

Major Professor(s): Daniel Hall



Forecasting crop water demand: structural and time series analysis

Murali Adhikari

MS 2004

Major Professor(s): T.N. Sriram



Regression models in standardized test prediction

Leigh Michelle Harrell

MS 2004

Major Professor(s): Mary Meyer



Robust inference for randomized play the winner design

An-Lin Cheng

PhD 2004

Major Professor(s): Anand Vidyashankar



Extreme value methods in body-burden analysis: with application to inference from long-term data sets

Matthew Joseph Atkinson

MS 2004

Major Professor(s): Machelle Wilson



Modelling and analysis of Intraocular Pressure (IOP) data

Guorong Chen

PhD 2004

Major Professor(s): Gauri S. Datta



Application and comparison of time series models to AIDS data

Tadesse Haileyesus

MS 2002

Major Professor(s): Lynne Billard



Statistical modeling and analysis of the polymerase chain reaction

Terri Lynn Henderson

MS 2002

Major Professor(s): Anand Vidyashankar



Are wealthier elderly healthier? : a statistical analysis of AHEAD data

Jee-Hee Han

MS 2002

Major Professor(s): Anand Vidyashankar



Statistical modeling and analysis of the polymerase chain reaction

Terri Lynn Henderson

MS 2002

Major Professor(s): Anand Vidyashankar



Intra-individual variation in serum vitamin A measures among participants in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994

Cathleen Doris Gillespie

MS 2002

Major Professor(s): Somnath Datta