Water availability has become a more significant economic and policy issue in contemporary America. Although emerging as an attractive tool to water authorities, demand-s[...]

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

Patients undergoing pancreatic surgeries have increased by over 50% in the United States over the past two decades. Pancreaticodudoenectomy, or Whipple procedure, represe[...]

Freight transportation is an indicator of the regional economy. In the United States, transportation by trucks accounted for 63.8% of total freight during the year 2015. [...]

This study investigates the impact of sporting events in Charlotte, North Carolina on local economic activity. A formal analysis of the effect these events have on local [...]

The increasing performance of feature extraction and regression modeling in various domains raises the hope for machine and deep learning to assist clinicians in numerous[...]

Customer relationship management has shown its critical role in the success of a company in today’s increasingly competitive service industry. While modern machine learni[...]

In financial time series nonlinear effects and time-varying effects are observed. In this dissertation we propose a predictive regression model with time varying coefficients [...]

Load forecasting is evolving in a smart grid era from the days before personal computer (PC) and the PC era. Thanks to the wide-spread use of smart meters, more data with[...]

The purpose of this study was to identify potential predictors of alcohol screening and brief intervention outcomes for severe-risk drinkers. Specifically, age, gender, r[...]