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Analysis of failure time data with missing and informative auxiliary covariates.
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Author
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Ghosh, Lipika
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Date Created
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2011
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Mathematics, Biometry
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Description
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In this dissertation we use Cox's regression model to failure time data with continuous informative auxiliary variables in the presence of a validation subsample. The work is motivated by a common problem of missing or mismeasured covariates in su...
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Nonparametric Pricing Kernel Models
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Author
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Sun, Linman
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Date Created
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2011
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the arbitrage asset pricingtheory (APT) have been the cornerstone in theoretical and empirical finance for the recent few decades. The classical CAPM usually assumes a simple and stable linear relationshi...
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Privacy and Spectral Analysis of Social Network Randomization
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Author
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Ying, Xiaowei
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Date Created
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2011
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Social networks are of significant importance in various application domains. Understanding the general properties of real social networks has gained much attention due to the proliferation of networked data. Many applications of networks such as ...
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STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MARK-SPECIFIC PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL
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Author
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Li, Mei
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Date Created
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2011
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics
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Description
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Competing risks occur frequently in survival analysis, and in some cases, the competingrisks are not discrete. In this dissertation, we develop some statistical inferences to analyzecontinuous competing risks.In Chapter 2, inspired by the HIV vacc...