Thesis Titles 1983 - Present
2007
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
| "Probabilistic weather forecasting with spatial dependence" |
Veronica Berrocal |
Adrian Raftery |
| "Wavelet variance analysis for time series and random fields" |
Debashis Mondal |
Donald Percival and Peter Guttorp |
| "Bayesian hierarchical curve registration" |
Donatello Telesca |
Lurdes Inoue |
| "Up-and-Down" and the Percentile-Finding Problem |
Assaf Oron |
Peter Hoff |
| "Statistical Methodology for Longitudinal Social Network Data" |
Anton Westveld |
Peter Hoff |
2006
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
| "Learning in Spectral Clustering" |
Susan Shortreed |
Marina Meila |
| "Algorithms for Estimating the Cluster Tree of a Density" |
Rebecca Nugent |
Werner Stuetzle |
|
"Likelihood inference for population
structure, using the coalescent" |
Arindam Roy Choudhury |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"Exploring rates and patterns
of variability in gene conversion and crossover in the
human genome" |
Garrett Hellenthal |
Matthew Stephens |
|
"Alleviating ecological bias in
generalized linear models and optimal
design with subsample data" |
Adam Glynn |
Mark Handcock and Jon Wakefield |
|
"Nonparametric estimation for
current status data with competing risks" |
Marloes Maathuis |
Piet Groeneboom and Jon Wellner |
|
"Goodness-of-fit statistics based
on phi-divergences" |
Leah Jager |
Jon Wellner |
|
"An efficient and flexible model for patterns
of population genetic variation" |
Paul Scheet |
Matthew Stephens |
|
"Variable selection and other extensions
of the mixture model clustering framework" |
Nema Dean |
Adrian Raftery |
| On the performance of IT vendors in
online service marketplaces: does a vendor's reputation matter?
|
Conglei Zhang |
Werner Stuetzle |
2005
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Alternative models for estimating genetic maps
from pedigree data" |
Bill Stewart |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"Allele-sharing methods for linkage detection
using extended pedigrees" |
Saonli Basu |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"Robust estimation of factor models in finance" |
Heiko Bailer |
Doug Martin |
|
"Using the structure of d-connecting paths as a qualitative
measure of the strength of dependence" |
Sanjay Chaudhuri |
Michael Perlman and Thomas Richardson |
| "Alternative estimators of wavelet variance" |
Eric Aldrich (M.S.) |
Don Percival, Peter Guttorp, and
Christopher Bretheron |
| "Investigating effects of the choice of latent
variable distribution for the two parameter logistic response model." |
David Dailey (M.S.) |
Elena Erosheva and Thomas Richardson |
|
"Bayesian robust analysis of gene expression
microarray data." |
Raphael Gottardo |
Adrian Raftery |
| "Analysis of Haplotype Structure: Application
to the DARC Gene Region." |
Ting-Yuan Liu (M.S.) |
Elizabeth Thompson |
2004
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
Maximum likelihood estimation in Gaussian AMP chain graph models
and Gaussian ancestral graph models
|
Mathias Drton |
Michael Perlman and Thomas Richardson |
|
"Nonparametric estimation of a k-monotone density: A
new asymptotic distribution theory." |
Fadoua Balabdaoui |
Jon Wellner |
| "Assessing the detrended fluctuation
analysis method of estimating the Hurst coefficient." |
Nate Derby (M.S.) |
Tilmann Gneiting, Donald Percival, and
Thomas Richardson |
2003
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"The genetic structure of related recombinant lines."
|
Amy Dawn Anderson |
Elzabeth Thompson |
|
"Joint relationship inference from three or more
individuals in the presence of genotyping error." |
Solveig Kara Sieberts |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"Personal characteristics and covariate measurement
error in disease risk estimation." |
Elizabeth Ann Sugar |
Ross Prentice and Ching-Yun Wang |
|
"Model based and hybrid clustering of large
datasets." |
Jeremy Mark Tantrum |
Alejandro Murua and Werner Stuetzle |
2002
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Applying graphical models to partially observed
data-generating processes." |
Rebecca Ayesha Ali |
Thomas Richardson |
| "Mixture modeling of count data with excess
zero-values: An application to Dungeness crab catch estimation." |
Jennifer Cahalan (M.S.) |
Peter Guttorp |
|
"Generalized linear mixed models: development and
comparison of different estimation methods." |
Kerrie Patricia Nelson |
Brian Leroux |
|
"Practical importance sampling methods for finite mixture
models and multiple imputation." |
Russell J. Steele |
Adrian Raftery |
2001
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Bayesian inference for deterministic
simulation models for environmental assessment." |
Samantha Bates |
Adrian Raftery |
| "Hierarchical agglomerative clustering and
linear mixed-effects models applied to small-scale dental clinical trials."
|
Sally Marjorie Rodriguez (M.S.) |
Judy Zeh and Galen Shorack |
| "Modeling recessive lethals: An explanation for
excess sharing in siblings." |
Solveig Kara Sieberts (M.S.) |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"Estimation with bivariate interval censored
data." |
Shuguang Song |
Jon Wellner |
|
"Latent models for cross-covariance." |
Jacob A. Wegelin |
Thomas Richardson and Paul Sampson |
2000
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Likelihood ratio inference in regular and non-regular
problems." |
Moulinath Banerjee |
Jon Wellner |
|
"Nonhomogeneous hidden Markov models for downscaling
synoptic atmospheric patterns to precipitation amounts." |
Enrica Bellone |
Peter Guttorp and James P. Hughes |
|
"A model selection approach to partially linear
regression." |
Florentina Bunea |
Jon Wellner |
|
"Wavelet-based estimation for trend
contaminated long memory processes." |
Peter Craigmile |
Donald Percival and Peter Guttorp |
|
"Global covariance modeling: A deformation approach
to anisotropy." |
Barnali Das |
Peter Guttorp |
|
"Likelihood inference for parameteric models of
dispersal." |
Beatrix Jones |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"Bayesian inference in hidden stochastic population
processes." |
Daniela Golinelli |
Peter Guttorp |
|
"Logic regression and statistical issues related to
the protein folding problem." |
Ingo Ruczinski |
Charles Kooperberg and Michael LeBlanc |
| "Estimating the association between airborne
particulate matter and elderly mortality in Seattle, Washington using
Bayesian Model Averaging." |
Erin Sullivan (M.S.) |
Peter Guttorp and Tilmann Gneiting |
|
"Detecting and extracting complex patterns from
images and realizations of spatial point processes." |
Daniel Walsh |
Adrian Raftery |
1999
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
| "Statistical approaches to distinct value estimation." |
Jake Brutlag (M.S.) |
Thomas Richardson and Werner Stuetzle |
|
"Generalization of boosting algorithms and applications
of Bayesian inference for massive datasets." |
Greg Ridgeway |
David Madigan and Thomas Richardson |
|
"Bayesian inference for noninvertible deterministic
simulation models, with application to bowhead whale assessment." |
David Poole |
Adrian Raftery |
|
"Monte Carlo likelihood calculation for identity by
descent data." |
Sharon Browning |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"Fast automatic unsupervised image segmentation and
curve detection in spatial point processes." |
Derek C. Stanford |
Adrian Raftery |
|
"Semiparametric inference based on estimating equations
in regressions models for two phase outcome dependent sampling." |
Nilanjan Chatterjee |
Norman Breslow and Jon Wellner |
|
"Capture-recapture estimation of bowhead whale population
size using photo-identification data." |
Cibele Queiroz da Silva |
Judy Zeh and David Madigan |
|
"Lifetime and disease onset distributions from incomplete
observations." |
Antonio Eduardo Gomes |
Jon Wellner |
1998
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Additive mixture models for multichannel image
data." |
Kingshuk Roy Choudhury |
Finbarr O'Sullivan |
|
"Application of ridge regression for improved
estimation of parameters in compartmental models." |
Angshuman Saha |
Finbarr O'Sullivan |
|
"Bayesian modeling of highly structured systems
using Markov chain Monte Carlo." |
Simon D. Byers |
Julian Besag |
|
"Assessing nonstationary time series using wavelets."
|
Brandon J. Whitcher |
Peter Guttorp and Donald Percival |
|
"Lattice conditional independence models for
incomplete multivariate data and for seemingly unrelated regressions." |
Lang Wu |
Michael Perlman |
|
"Estimation for counting processes with incomplete
data." |
Ying Zhang |
Jon Wellner |
|
"Regularization techniques for linear regression
with a large set of carriers." |
Sylvain Sardy |
Werner Stuetzle |
|
"Large sample theory for pseudo maximum likelihood
estimates in semiparametric models." |
Hui-Lin Hu |
Jon Wellner |
1997
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
| "A new learning procedure in acyclic directed
graphs." |
Daniela Golinelli. (M.S.) |
David Madigan |
| "Phylogenies via conditional independence
modeling." |
Beatrix Jones. (M.S.) |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"Bayesian model averaging in censored survival
models." |
Christopher T. Volinsky |
Adrian Raftery |
|
"Bayesian information retrieval." |
Michelle R. Keim |
David Madigan |
|
"Statistical inference for partially observed
markov population processes." |
Sandra Catlin |
Peter Guttorp |
|
"Tools for the advancement of undergraduate
statistics education." |
Andrew A. Schaffner |
David Madigan |
1996
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Variability estimation in linear inverse
problems." |
Ranjan Maitra |
Finbarr O'Sullivan |
|
"Inference in a discrete parameter space." |
Ian S. Painter |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"Bootstrapping functional m-estimators." |
Yihui Zhan |
Jon Wellner |
1995
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Estimation of heterogeneous space-time covariance."
|
Wendy Meiring |
Peter Guttorp |
|
"Semiparametric estimation of major gene and random
environmental effects for age of onset." |
Hongzhe Li |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"Statistical analysis of biological monitoring data:
State-space models for species compositions." |
D. Dean Billheimer |
Peter Guttorp |
1994
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Spatial applications of Markov chain Monte Carlo for
bayesian inference." |
David Higdon |
Julian Besag |
|
"Accounting for model uncertainty in linear regression."
|
Jennifer A. Hoeting |
David Madigan |
|
"Robust estimation in point processes." |
Renato M. Assuncao |
Peter Guttorp |
|
"Multilevel modeling of discrete event history data using
Markov chain Monte Carlo methods." |
Steven M. Lewis |
Adrian Raftery |
|
"Estimation in regression models with interval censoring."
|
Jian Huang |
Jon Wellner |
1993
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"A Bayesian framework and importance sampling methods for
synthesizing multiple sources of evidence and uncertainty linked by a
complex mechanistic model." |
Geof H. Givens |
Adrian Raftery |
|
"State-space modeling of salmon migration and Monte Carlo
Alternatives to the Kalman filter." |
Kenneth B. Newman |
Peter Guttorp |
|
"The Poisson clumping heuristic and the survival of genome in
small pedigrees." |
Heike Blossey |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"Markov chain Monte Carlo estimates of probabilities on
complex structures." |
Shili Lin |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"A class of stochastic models for relating synoptic
atmospheric patterns to local hydrologic phenomena." |
James P. Hughes |
Peter Guttorp |
1992
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Auxiliary and missing covariate problems in failure time
regression analysis." |
Haibo Zhou |
Margaret Sullivan Pepe |
|
"A high order hidden markov model." |
James Schimert |
Doug Martin |
|
"Bayesian methods for the analysis of misclassified or
incomplete multivariate discrete data." |
Jeremy C. York |
David Madigan |
| "A regularized contrast statistic for object boundary
estimation: Implementation and statistical evaluation." |
Maijian Qian (M.S.) |
Finbarr O'Sullivan |
1991
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"General-weights bootstrap of the empirical process."
|
Jens T. Praestgaard |
Jon Wellner |
|
"The weighted likelihood bootstrap and an algorithm for
prepivoting." |
Michael A. Newton |
Adrian Raftery |
1990
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Modelling agricultural field trials in the presence of
outliers and fertility jumps." |
Ross H. Taplin |
Adrian Raftery |
|
"Modeling and bootstrapping for non-gaussian time series."
|
Nhu Dinh Le |
Doug Martin |
|
"Genetic restoration on complex pedigrees." |
Nuala A. Sheehan |
Elizabeth Thompson |
|
"Incorporating covariates into a beta-binomial model with
applications to medicare policy: A Bayes/empirical Bayes approach." |
Michael J. Kahn |
Adrian Raftery |
|
"Likelihood and exponential families." |
Charles J. Geyer |
Elizabeth Thompson |
1989
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
| "A diffusion model for within-species and
between-species." |
Mark N. Grote (M.S.) |
Joseph Felsenstein |
|
"Estimation of mixing and mixed distributions." |
Russell B. Millar |
Jon Wellner |
|
"Classical inference in spatial statistics." |
Lars S. Andersen |
Antonio Possolo |
1988
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Exploratory methods for censored data." |
Robert C. Gentleman |
John Crowley |
|
"Aspects of robust analysis in designed experiments."
|
Patrick J. Burns |
Doug Martin |
|
"Diagnostics for time series models." |
Andrew G. Bruce |
Doug Martin |
|
"Constrained cluster analysis and image
understanding." |
Jeff D. Banfield |
Adrian Raftery |
1987
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"The data viewer: A program for graphical data
analysis." |
Catherine Hurley |
Andreas Buja |
| "Population size estimation for the western
Arctic stock of bowhead whale: A Bayes/empirical Bayes approach." |
Philip Turet (M.S.) |
Judy Zeh |
|
"Additive principal components: A method for estimating
additive constraints with small variance from multivariate data." |
Deborah J. Donnell |
Werner Stuetzle |
|
"Kullback-Leibler estimation of probability measures
with an application to clustering." |
Anne Sheehy |
Jon Wellner |
|
"Time series models for continuous proportions." |
Gary K. Grunwald |
Peter Guttorp |
1986
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Estimation for infinite variance autoregressive
processes." |
Keith Knight |
Doug Martin |
|
"A computer system for Monte Carlo experimentation."
|
David A. Grier |
Richard Kronmal |
1985
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"Robust estimation for the errors-in-variables model."
|
Ruben H. Zamar |
Doug Martin |
|
"Robust statistics on compact metric spaces." |
Daijin Ko |
Peter Guttorp |
|
"Weak convergence and a law of the iterated logarithm
for processes indexed by points in a metric space." |
Mina E. Ossiander |
Ronald Pyke |
1983
| Thesis title |
Student |
Supervisor |
|
"The statistics of long memory processes." |
Donald B. Percival |
Doug Martin |