Past PhD Theses
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2023
Jialu Wang
- Advocate: Feifang Hu
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Covariate-Adaptive Randomization in Network Data
Zhou Yang
- Advocate: Fang Jin
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Explainable Learning with Meaningful Perturbations
Yu Xia
- Advocate: Hua Liang
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Several Models
Xiaoyan Yin
- Advocate: Scott Evans and Toshimitsu Hamasaki
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials for COMparing Personalized Antibiotic StrategieS (SMART COMPASS): Design and Software
Fengyu Zhao
- Advocate: Feifang Hu
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Statistical Inference of Relative Risk and Hazard Ratio under Covariate Adaptive Randomization
Mengqiu Zhu
- Advocate: Yinglei Lai
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Some Research Progress in Generative Modeling and the Related Applications to Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing and Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Data
2022
May Al-Husseini
- Advocate: Qing Pan
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Joint Analysis of Adenoma Screening and Colon Cancer Risks with Informative Screening Times
Shuyang Gao
- Advocate: Hosam Mahmoud
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: On Some Classes of Urn Models with Multiple-Drawing
Yufei Guo
- Advocate: Yinglei Lai
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Evaluation and Prediction of the Association Consistency between Two High-throughput Two-sample Gene Expression Datasets
Bingqi Han
- Advocate: Yinglei Lai
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Some Research Progress on Generative Adversarial Networks
Xiang Li
- Advocate: Qing Pan
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Heterogeneous Block Covariance Model for Community Detection
Yang Liu
- Advocate: Feifang Hu
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Statistical Issues of Unobserved Covariates in Covariate-Adaptive Randomized Trials
Shunyan Luo
- Advocate: Fang Jin
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Statistically Consistent Interpretation of Deep Learning
Sam Luxenberg
- Advocate: Sudip Bose and Refik Soyer
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Adversarial Risk Analysis for Decision-Making in Sports
Rui Miao
- Advocate: Xiaoke Zhang
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Advances in Functional Data Analysis and Reinforcement Learning
Wu Xue
- Advocate: Xiaoke Zhang
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Methodological Advances in Causal Inference for Functional Daya and Survival Data
Mingze Zhang
- Advocate: Judy Wang
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Copula-based Analysis for Dependent Count Data
2021
Chen Chen
- Advocate: Yan Ma and Qing Pan
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Meta-analysis of Rare Events
Shiqi Dong
- Advocate: Zhaohai Li and Aiyi Liu
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: On Combination of Elliptically Distributed Biomarkers to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy
Hongfei Du
- Advocate: Fang Jin
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Uncertainty Quantification and Adversarial Samples Detection of Neural Networks, and Single Reader Between Cases AUC estimator in Nested Data Problem
Yihe Huang
- Advocate: Yan Ma
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Comparison of Machine Learning Methods in Missing Data Imputation for NIS Data
Xiang Peng
- Advocate: Judy Wang
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Advances in Subgroup Identification and Expected Shortfall Regression
Grecio Sandoval
- Advocate: Ionut Bebu and John Lachin
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: On Cost-Efficient Designs for Clinical Studies
2020
Lingzhe Guo
- Advocate: Reza Modarres
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Change Point Detection of Periodic Data
Yuan Gu
- Advocate: Colin Wu and Hua Liang
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Dynamic Conditional Density Models for Multivariate Longitudinal Data
Jinxi Liu
- Advocate: Naji Younes and Marinella Temprosa
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: A Joint Model for Survival and Longitudinal Data Using Shape Invariant Models
Shaobo Liu
- Advocate: Hua Liang
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Nonlinear Function-on-Scalar MINQE with Application to Genetic Heritability
Yan Liu
- Advocate: Zhaohai Li, Barry Graubard, and Kai Yu
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Associations via Integrating Analysis of Predicted Expression from Multiple Tissues
Mohamed Megheib
- Advocate: Sudip Bose
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Nonparametric Regression for Spatially Correlated Data
Peifeng Ruan
- Advocate: Hua Liang
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Advanced Statistical Models in Cancer Research with Omics Data
Arnold Saunders
- Advocate: Hosam Mahmoud
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Random Recursive Tree Evolution Algorithms: Identification and Characterization of Classes of Deletion Rules
Xiang Shen
- Advocate: Hua Liang
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Model Averaging of Several Semiparametric Models
Huan Wang
- Advocate: Qing Pan and Dechang Chen
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Development of Prognostic Systems for Cancer Patients
Liuqing Yang
- Advocate: Qing Pan
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Clustering Models with Applications in Gene Expression Profiles
Xiaoyu Zhai
- Advocate: Tapan Nayak
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Randomized Response Methods for Privacy Protection in Data Collection and Identification Risk Control in Data Release
Lingjie Zhou
- Advocate: Qing Pan
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Inverse Weighting Method with Jackknife Variance Estimator for Differential Expression Analysis of Single-cell RNA Sequencing Data
Yifan Zhou
- Advocate: Feifang Hu
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Some New Advances in Covariate-Adaptive Randomization
2019
Jichong Chai
- Advocate: Tapan K. Nayak, Professor of Statistics
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Privacy Protection in Data Collection via Randomized Response Procedures
Didem Egemen
- Advocate: Riefik Soyer, Professor of Decision Sciences and Statistics
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Bayesian Modeling of Virtual Age in Repairable Systems
Zhikun Gao
- Advocate: Huixia Wang, Professor of Statistics
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Automatic Shape-Constrained Nonparametric Regression
Jesse P. Jeter
- Advocate: Sudip Bose, Associate Professor of Statistics
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Novel Methodologies in Categorical Data Analysis
Fuyuan Li
- Advocate: Huixia Wang, Professor of Statistics
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Copula-Based Analysis of Dependent Data with Censoring and Zero-Inflation
Xin Li
- Advocate: Feifang Hu, Professor of Statistics
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Interim Analysis in Adaptive Randomized Clinical Trials
Yu Song
- Advocate: Reza Modarres, Professor of Statistics
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Distribution of Interpoint Distances and Applications
2018
Xiaoyu Cai
- Advocate: Zhaohai Li, Professor of Statistics
- Co-Advocates: Aiyi Liu, Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health & Feifang Hu, Professor of Statistics
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Using Proper Transformations to Improve Precision
Somak Chatterjee
- Advocate: Subrata Kundu, Associate Professor of Statistics
- Co-Advocate: Rajeshwari Sundaram, Senior Investigator, NICHD/DIPHR
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Joint Modeling of Multiple Skewed Longitudinal Processes with Excess of Zeroes and Time-to-Event Using a Shared Parameter Model
Jie Cong
- Advocate: Hua Liang, Professor of Statistics
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Nonlinearity Detection Using Penalization-Based Principle
Wenjuan Gu
- Advocate: Dean Follmann, Assistant Advocate for Biostatistics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Co-Advocate: Naji Younes, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Parametric and Semi-parametric Approaches to Estimation of Survival Distributions of Treatment Strategies in Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials
Yuan Li
- Advocate: Feifang Hu, Professor of Statistics
- Co-Advocate: Michael D. Larsen, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Hierarchical Bayesian Model for AK Composite Estimators in the Current Population Survey (CPS)
Cong Wang
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Analysis for Familial Aggregation Using Recurrence Risk for Complex Survey Data
Fan Wang
- Advocate: Feifang Hu, Professor of Statistics
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Balancing A Large Number of Covariates via Covariate-Adaptive Randomization
Aotian Yang
- Advisor: Qing Pan
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Constrained Maximum Entropy Models for Selecting Genotype Interactions Associated with Interval-Censored Failure Times and Methods for Power Calculation in a Three-arm Four-step Clinical Bioequivalence Study
Cheng Zhang
- Advocate: Tapan K. Nayak, Professor of Statistics
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Identification Risk Control in Microdata Release by Inverse Frequency Post-Randomization and Its Impact on Data Utility
2017
Hailin Huang
- Advisor: Hua Liang
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Semi-parametric and Structured Nonparametric Modeling
Biao Yang
- Advisor: Jonathan Stroud
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Particle and Ensemble Methods for State Space Models
Li Cheung
- Advisor: Qing Pan and Hormuzd Katki
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Mixture Models for Left- and Interval-Censored Data and Concordance Indices for Composite Survival Outcomes
Wanying Zhao
- Advisor: Feifang Hu
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Adaptive Designs Utilizing Covariates for Precision Medicine and Their Statistical Inference
Yarong Feng
- Advisor: Hosam Mahmoud
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: On Fast Growth Models for Random Structures
Chen Chen
- Advisor: Hosam Mahmoud
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Advances in Urn Models and Applications to Self-similar Bipolar Networks
Previous Years
- 2016
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Liyi Jia
- Advisor: Yinglei Lai
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Modeling the Correlation Structure of RNA Sequencing Data Using A Multivariate Poisson-Lognormal Model
Xing Chen
- Advisor: Yinglei Lai
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Censored-Poisson Model Based Approach to the Analysis of RNA-seq Data
Panpan Zhang
- Advisor: Hosam Mahmoud
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: On Certain Properties of Several Random Networks
Junchi Guo
- Advisor: Michael Larsen
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Improvements in Simulation, Convergence Monitoring, and Modeling of the Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Network Analysis
Brian Dumbacher
- Advisor: Michael Larsen
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Small Area Estimation in a Survey of Governments
Xian Sun
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li and Aiyi Liu
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Biomarkers with a Continuous Gold Standard
Joshuah Touyz
- Advisor: Tatiyana Apanasovich
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Novel Methodologies in Multivariate Spatial Statistics
- 2015
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Quan Zou
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: The Generalized Relative Pairs IBD Distribution: Its Use in the Detection of Linkage
- 2014
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Siyu Qing
- Advisor: Michael Larson
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Longitudinal Weight Calibration with Estimated Control Totals for Cross Sectional Survey Data: Theory and Application
Fanni Zhang
- Advisor: Yinglei Lai
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Concordant Integrative Analysis of Multiple Gene Expression Data Sets
Mengta Yang
- Advisor: Reza Modarres
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Depth Functions, Multidimensional Medians and Tests of Uniformity on Proximity Graphs
Mohammed Chowdhury
- Advisor: Colin Wu and Reza Modarres
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Nonparametric Smoothing Estimation of Conditional Distribution Function with Longitudinal Data and Time-Varying Parametric Models
Bipasa Biswas
- Advisor: Yinglei Lai
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Statistical Analysis of DNA Copy Number Variation with Sequencing Data
Ruihua Xu
- Advisor: Yinglei Lai and Gang Zheng
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Analysis of Mixed Types of Traits in Genetic Association Studies and Application to Genome-Wide Association Studies
- 2013
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Wenjing Xu
- Advisor: Qing Pan and Joseph Gastwirth
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Statistical Properties of Biostatistical Methods for Correlated Processes with Application to Data Arising in the Legal Settings
Ravi Kalpathy
- Advisor: Hosam Mahmoud
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Perpetuities in Fair Leader Election Algorithms
Jie Zhou
- Advisor: Zhiwei Zhang and Zhaohai Li
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Coarsened Propensity Scores and Hybrid Estimators for Missing Data and Causal Inference
Marinella Temprosa
- Advisor: John Lachin
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: An Imputation-Estimation Algorithm Using Time-Varying Auxiliary Covariates for a Longitudinal Model When Outcome is Missing by Design
Wenliang Yao
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li and Barry Graubard
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Estimation of the Area Under the ROC Curve With Complex Survey Data
Wanjie Sun
- Advisor: Michael Larsen and John Lachin
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Methods for a Longitudinal Quantitative Outcome With a Multivariate Gaussian Distribution Multi-dimensionally Censored by Therapeutic Intervention
- 2012
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Anna Gordon
- Advisor: Nozer Singpurwalla
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: The Stochastics of Diagnostic and Threat Detection Tests
Sanaa Kholfi
- Advisor: Hosam Mahmoud
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: On A Class of Zero-balanced Urn Models
Mei Jin
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li and Aiyu Li
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Group Sequential Designs for Intraclass Correlation Coefficients in Reliability Studies
Donald Bauder
- Advisor: Sudip Bose
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Bayesian Robustness in Finite Population Testing
Owen Martin
- Advisor: Nozer Singpurwalla
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: A Dynamic Competing Risk Model for Filtering Reliability and Tracking Survivability
- 2011
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John Jackson
- Advisor: Paul Albert and Zhaohai Li
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Prediction Models for Longitudinal Binary and Count Data
Linglu Wang
- Advisor: Tapan Nayak
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: The Equivariance Criterion in Statistical Prediction and Its Ramifications
Haojin Zhou
- Advisor: Paul Albert and Zhaohai Li
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Prediction Models for Longitudinal Binary and Count Data
Tong Zhang
- Advisor: Hosam Mahmoud
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Bayesian Analysis of Case-control Genetic Association Studies in the Presence of Population Stratification or Genetic Model
Samson Adeshiyan
- Advisor: Tapan Nayak
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Gaussian Phases Toward Statistical Equilibrium in Some Urn Models
Linglu Wang
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li and Gang Zheng
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Unification of Randomized Response Designs and Certain Aspects of Post-Randomization for Statistical Disclosure Control
- 2010
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Anastasios Markitsis
- Advisor: Yinglei Lai
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: The Proportion of True Null Hypotheses in Microarray Gene Expression Data
Zhenyu Liu
- Advisor: Reza Modarres
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Triangle Test and Triangle Data Depth in Nonparametric Multivariate Analysis
Min Qin
- Advisor: Tapan Nayak
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Some Contributions to the Theory of Unbiased Statistical Prediction
Mark Tripputi
- Advisor: John Kittelson and Zhaohai Li
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Use of Mediation in Designing Clinical Trials with Two Primary End Points
Dewei She
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Genetic Association Studies Using Complex Survey Data
Susan Warren
- Advisor: Karen Bandeen-Roche and Samuel J. Simmensi
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Evaluating the Value of Adding Diagnostic Symptoms Using Posterior Probability and Sensitivity/Specificity Procedures
- 2009
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Hiroyuki Hikawa
- Advisor: Joseph .L.Gastwirth and E.Bura
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Local Linear Peters-Belson Regression and Its Applications to Employment Discrimination Cases
Lihan Yan
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li and Gang Zheng
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Group Sequential Robust Designs in Genetic Studies
- 2008
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Mark VanRaden
- Advisor: John Lachin
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Cumulative Logit-Poisson and Cumulative Logit-Negative Compound Regression Models for Count Data
Ruththanna Davi
- Advisor: John Lachini
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Cumulative Logit-Poisson and Cumulative Logit-Negative Compound Regression Models for Count Data
Dalong Huang
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li and Joseph L. Gastwirth
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Effects of Contamination on Statistical Inference Using Sib-Pair Analysis
- 2007
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Yu Shu
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li and Aiyi Liu
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Group sequential designs and inference of a medical diagnostic test with binary outcomes
Jiao Yang
- Advisor: Efstathia Bura
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Statistical Methods for Estimating the Dimension of Multivariate Data
Philip Wilson
- Advisor: Nozer Singpurwalla
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: On the Utility of Reliability
Joshua Landon
- Advisor: Nozer Singpurwalla
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: A Problem in Particle Physics and its Bayesian Analysis
- 2006
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Xiaowu Chen
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: AInference of Haploytepe Effects in Case-Control Studies Using Unphased Genotype and Environmental Data
Ainong Zhou
- Advisor: Giovanni Parmigiani and John M Lachini
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Bayes Factors Comparing Two Multi-Normal Covariance Matrices and their Application to Microarray Data Analysis
Konstantin Gartwig
- Advisor: Nozer Singpurwalla
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Asset pricing under parameter uncertainty
- 2005
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Dennis Buckman
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Linkage Tests for Relative-Pairs with Incomplete IBD and Known IBS
Weiping Deng
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Mixture models and their properties for interval mapping of genetic loci affecting binary traits
Terrence Hui
- Advisor: Reza Modarres
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Bootstrap and likelihood based inference for ranked set samples
Barbara George
- Advisor: Kaushik Ghosh
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Bayesian Regression for Circular Data
- 2004
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Jiaquan Fan
- Advisor: Kaushik Ghosh
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Short-term cancer incidence prediction with missing data
Costas Christophi
- Advisor: Hosam Mahmoud
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Distances in Random Tries via Analytic Probability: The Oscillatory Distribution
Abeer El-Baz
- Advisor: Tapan Nayak
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Some contributions to statistical prediction theory
- 2003
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Pablo Bonangelino
- Advisor: Thomas Louis and John M Lachin
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Maximin Efficiency Robust Tests for the Focused Clustering of Disease
Jinyu Yuan
- Advisor: Joseph L. Gastwirth and Zhaohai Li
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Statistical studies on genetic linkage analysis based on affected Sibships
Jade Freeman
- Advisor: Reza Modarres
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: An analysis of Box-Cox Transformed Data
- 2002
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Yvonne Sparling
- Advisor: John M Lachin and Naji Younes
- Program: Biostatistics
- Thesis Title: Parametric Survival Models for Interval-Censored Data with Time-Dependent Covariates
- 2001
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Xuejun Chen
- Advisor: Zhaohai Li
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: The estimation and asymptotic theory of multiplicative Frailty model
Christopher Moriarity
- Advisor: Fritz Scheuren and Tapan Nayak
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Statistical properties of statistical matching
Kimberly Sellers
- Advisor: Nozer Singpurwalla
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Vague coherent systems
Binbing Yu
- Advisor: Joseph L. Gastwirth
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Some problems arising in observational studies: Potential effect of selection bias and omitted variables
James Cantor
- Advisor: David Findley and Hosam Mahmoud
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Recursive and batch estimation of misspecified ARMA model
- 2000
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Chenxiong Le
- Advisor: James Rochon
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Application of ARCH models to the analysis of longitudinal data
Jun Li
- Advisor: Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou and Sudip Bose
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: A stochastic volatility model for option pricing
Tirso Diaz
- Advisor: Robert Smythe and John Lachin
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Simultaneous testing and estimation of trend in proportion using historical data
Gang Zheng
- Advisor: Joseph L. Gastwirth
- Program: Statistics
- Thesis Title: Fisher information in order statistics and ordered randomly censored data