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PhD Exams

July 2022
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Final Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman Spatio-Temporal Models, Inference and Computing for Public Health Applications
May 2022
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General Zhen Miao Mixture models to fit heavy-tailed, heterogeneous or sparse data
General Anupreet Porwal Objective Bayesian methods for variable selection
General Peter Gao Areal models for estimation of subnational health and demographic indicators
April 2022
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General Alan Min Statistical methods for genomic sequencing data
General Michael Pearce Statistical methods for preference learning
March 2022
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General Nathan G Welch Probabilistic Forecasts of International Bilateral Migration Flows
February 2022
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General Anna Neufeld Testing data-driven hypotheses
General Daphne Liu Statistical Methods for Estimating and Projecting the Effect of Policy Interventions on Demographic Outcomes
December 2021
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Final Max Schneider Improving Uncertainty Quantification and Visualization for Spatiotemporal Earthquake Rate Models for the Pacific Northwest
Final Samson Jonathan Koelle Geometric algorithms for interpretable manifold learning
General Lang Liu Probability Metrics for Statistical Learning and Inference: Limit Laws and Non-Asymptotic Bounds
October 2021
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General Malcolm Lee Wolff A Symmetric Matrix-Variate GGM for Inference on Human Activity Networks
September 2021
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Final Alexander H. Greaves-Tunnell Statistical prediction of functional connectivity in the macaque cortex under targeted stimulation and experimental variation
August 2021
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Final Sheridan L. Grant Fairness and Causality in Peer Review
July 2021
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Final Hongjian Shi Testing independence via ranks
Final Jessica Godwin Subnational Estimation of Period Child Mortality in a Low and Middle Income Countries Context
June 2021
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General Gang Cheng Long Term Effect Estimation with Data Linkage: a Missing Data Approach
April 2021
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Final Yandi Shen Power analysis in testing high dimensional covariance matrices
Final F. Richard Guo Finite sample bounds on the multinomial LRT with application to IV analysis