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PhD Exams

August 2023
Exam Type Speaker Title Time
General Seth Temple Statistical inference of recent and strong selective sweeps
Final Anupreet Porwal Bayesian methods for variable selection
June 2023
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Final Alan Min Statistical methods for genomic sequencing data
May 2023
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Final Peter Gao Estimating subnational health and demographic indicators using complex survey data
Final Michael Pearce Methods for the Statistical Analysis of Preferences, with Applications to Social Science Data
General Apara Venkat Learning from Expert Knowledge: Bandits and Graphs
Final Anna Neufeld Data thinning to overcome double dipping
Final Zhen Miao Bayesian Ising mixture models
Final Shane Lubold Inference and Estimation for Network Data
March 2023
Exam Type Speaker Title Time
General Sarah Teichman Statistical methods for microbial gene analyses
February 2023
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Final Interpretation and Validation for Unsupervised Learning
December 2022
Exam Type Speaker Title Time
General Nicholas Irons Statistical estimation and decision-making for the COVID-19 pandemic
November 2022
Exam Type Speaker Title Time
Final Aaron J. Baraff Likelihood-based haplotype frequency modeling using variable-order Markov chains
General Zhaoqi Li Estimation and inference of optimal policies
General Steven Wilkins-Reeves Learning in Latent Variable Models
General Jerry Wei Graphs for Statistical Learning and Modeling
September 2022
Exam Type Speaker Title Time
Final Lang Liu Statistical Divergences for Learning and Inference: A Non-Asymptotic Viewpoint
August 2022
Exam Type Speaker Title Time
Final Gang Cheng Missing Data Methods for Observational Health Dataset
Final Kunhui Zhang Statistical Methods for Clustering and High Dimensional Time Series Analysis
Final Wenyu Chen Causal Structure Learning in High Dimensions