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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