This dissertation investigates the effects of innovation in the U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) on survival chances of standalone non-patenting firms. Extensive[...]

ABSTRACTSHWETA SHAH. Survival, healthcare utilization and costs associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among SEER-Medicare beneficiaries with non-small cel[...]

Deregulation of the electric power industry has created both wholesale markets and retail markets. Most load forecasting studies in the literature are on the wholesale si[...]

Recurrent events are very common in many different fields, including biological, medical, engineering and finance. Existing research have developed methodologies to model[...]

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[...]

Failure time data are commonly encountered in epidemiological and biomedical studies, where the exact time of an event may be unknown or incomplete. Many semiparametric m[...]

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of weathering on the performance of intumescent fire-retardant coatings on wooden products. The weathering effe[...]

This dissertation presents the development and implementation of a comprehensive automated software framework for probabilistic bridge deterioration modeling that takes i[...]