In this dissertation, we aim to develop a brand new method with a two-stage procedure to investigate the association between multivariate recurrent event processes. First[...]

Cancer and autoimmunity are two major chronic diseases among women. Based on previous studies that cancer and autoimmune diseases (AD) are both the accumulative effect of[...]

From 1970 until the end of the military dictatorship, doctors in Chile became deeply entangled with the state in their efforts to secure and expand their professional aut[...]

High-dimensional data becomes common in application areas such as environmental studies and healthcare. The high dimensionality presents opportunities for understanding h[...]

Continuous advances in modern data collection techniques help spatial scientists gain access to massive and high-resolution spatial and spatio-temporal data. Thus there i[...]

Aerodynamics has long been perceived as the single most important aspect amongst all factors that contribute to the on-track performance of a racecar. As such, in all for[...]