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Title: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Isomorphism in Measures of Team Constructs
Author: Clayton, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Organizational behavior
Description: Work teams are an ever-growing structure as organizations seek to become more agile and achieve better outcomes (Bersin, 2016; Deloitte, 2018). Therefore, organizational researchers seek to accurately recognize and understand various aspects of te...

Title: Heterogeneous crowd-sourced data analytics
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Data mining, Statistics
Description: Advances in computing, communication, storage, and sensing technologies have reshaped the lives of people by changing the way they live, work, interact with their environments, and even socialize. Modern information systems collect valuable inform...

Title: High throughput non-parametric probability density estimation via novel multithreaded stitching method
Author: Merino, Zach
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Statistics, Physics
Description: A method of univariant probability density function (pdf) estimation is developed for big data applications. The method employs the use of a non-parametric maximum entropy estimator (NMEM) for a data driven multithreaded probability density estima...

Title: High throughput nonparametric probability density estimation
Author: Jacobs, Donald J., Farmer, Jenny
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Probabilities
Description: In high throughput applications, such as those found in bioinformatics and finance, it is important to determine accurate probability distribution functions despite only minimal information about data characteristics, and without using human subje...

Title: How Does Family Firm Status Moderate the Relationship Between Organizational Readiness for Change and Organizational Resilience in Times of Crisis?
Author: Castillo, Nubia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Management, Statistics, Industrial management
Description: ABSTRACTNUBIA A. CASTILLO DE VALLE. How does family firm status moderate the relationship between organizational readiness for change and organizational resilience in times of crisis? (Under the direction of DR.TORSTEN M. PIEPER)The literature on ...

Title: Improving Semiparametric Estimation of Longitudinal Data with Covariance Function
Author: Fang, Fang
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Statistics, Biometry
Description: In this dissertation, we aim to improve efficiency of estimation in longitudinal data under generalized semi-parametric varying-coefficient models.First, we investigate a profile weighted least square approach for model estimation by utilizing wit...

Title: In search of a predictive model for aflatoxin insurance claims based on temperature data
Author: German-Jimenez, Fausto, Terejanu, Gabriel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Machine learning, Statistics, Agriculture
Description: Aflatoxin is a carcinogenic product of mold that affects thousands of corn-producing farms in the United States every year, so being able to predict when a county will have compromising aflatoxin levels could be beneficial for insurance companies....

Title: Independent Screening for Nonparametric Additive Cox Model
Author: Yu, Sha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: Survival data with ultrahigh dimensional covariates are increasingly common recently due to the rapid development in technologies. It is challenging to model them using survival models in order to understand the association between covariate infor...

Title: Inequalities in Education: A Closer Focus on School Discipline
Author: Furukawa, Taylor
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Statistics, Social sciences--Research
Description: Disproportionalities in school discipline have become a popular research topic in recent decades, particularly at the school-, district-, and state-level. While there are a handful of reports using nationally representative data, this study provid...

Title: Interval Estimation for Semiparametric Predictive Regression
Author: Hong, Shaoxin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: Predictive regression is an important research topic in financial econometrics. Various estimation methods have been proposed for it, but they suffer from complicated asymptotic limits which depend on whether or not the predicting variable is stat...

Title: Jensen-Shannon Divergence: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
Author: Stewart, Ann
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: Jensen-Shannon divergence is one reasonable solution to the problem of measuring the level of difference or "distance'" between two probability distributions on a multinomial population. If one of the distributions is assumed to be known a priori,...

Title: LIMIT THEOREMS FOR ONE CLASS OF ERGODIC MARKOV CHAINS
Author: Turhan, Nezihe
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Mathematics
Description: The goal of this dissertation is to develop some classical limit theorems for the additive functionals of the homogeneous Markov chains in the special class of the so-called, Loop Markov Chains. The additive functionals of the Markov chains have t...

Title: LIMIT THEOREMS FOR RANDOM EXPONENTIAL SUMS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO INSURANCE AND THE RANDOM ENERGY MODEL
Author: Erturk, Huseyin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Statistics
Description: In this dissertation, we are mainly concerned with the sum of random exponentials. Here, the random variables are independent and identically distributed. Another distinctive assumption is the number of variables in this sum is a function of the c...

Title: LOCAL SPATIAL QUANTILE ESTIMATION OF MULTIVARIATE FUNCTIONAL-COEFFICIENT REGRESSION MODELS
Author: Zhou, Yetong
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: Quantile regression (QR) has been widely studied in statistics and econometrics. However, there is no much work on nonlinear QR for vector time series. Therefore, we propose a local spatial QR method to estimate the functional-coefficient matrices...

Title: MATLAB tool for probability density assessment and nonparametric estimation
Author: Jacobs, Donald J., Farmer, Jenny
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Entropy
Description: A MATLAB function is presented for nonparametric probability density estimation, based on an iterative method that employs the principle of maximum entropy and characteristic properties of single order statistics. Featuring a robust and adaptive d...

Title: MODELING RISK AND THE EFFECT OF AN INCREASE IN FREEWAY POSTED SPEED LIMIT ON CRASHES IN SPEED-CHANGE LANES
Author: Tagar, Synthia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Statistics
Description: Providing adequate design standards and capacity of speed-change lane is important for merging and diverging traffic to safely complete their maneuvers. Short speed-change lanes limit the ability of merging vehicles (/diverging vehicles) to reach ...

Title: March Madness prediction using quantile regression
Author: Mays, Kimberly
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Mathematics
Description: The annual NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament is one of the most prominent sporting events in the United States and the subject of much interest among fans and statisticians alike. In this work, we propose a new method for predicting ther...

Title: Modeling Vector Time Series Data
Author: Liu, Yi
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: ABSTRACTIn this dissertation, firstly, I study spatial quantile regression estimation of multivariate threshold time series models. Asymptotic normality of the proposed spatial quantile regression estimator is established. Simulations and a real e...

Title: Modeling the Crash Injury Severity in Work Zone Areas on Freeways
Author: Miatudila, Sr., Alain
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, Statistics
Description: The rising frequency of crashes in work zones on American freeways is a growing issue inherently linked to the degrading state of our transportation infrastructure. As travel demand increases and our infrastructure continues to age and wear out, w...

Title: Modeling the Effect of a Road Construction Project on Travel Time at Link-Level
Author: Kukkapalli, Venu Madhav
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Statistics
Description: Drivers observe variation in travel time due to congestion and delay on existing transportation facilities. A road construction project has a significant effect on travel time, leading to increased congestion, delay, and driver frustration. The ef...