1. SOCCER ANALYTICS: AN EXAMINATION OF CURRENT APPROACHES FOR GAME OUTCOME PREDICTION AND THE POTENTIAL OF DEEP LEARNING WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Open Access Author: Gomez Lorente, Juan Title: SOCCER ANALYTICS: AN EXAMINATION OF CURRENT APPROACHES FOR GAME OUTCOME PREDICTION AND THE POTENTIAL OF DEEP LEARNING WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Area of Honors: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Machine LearningDeep LearningNeural NetworksArtificial Neural NetworksPoisson RegressionSoccerSports AnalyticsBettingPredictive ModellingMoneyball AnalyticsSoftMax ClassifierRegressioneffects encodingfeed-forward networksbackpropagationgradient descentresilient backpropagationNewton's MethodTaylor Series expansionManhattan RuleBroyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithmBFGSQuasi-Newton Methods File: Download Juan_GomezLorente.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Hui Yang, Thesis SupervisorDr. Catherine Mary Harmonosky, Thesis Honors Advisor
2. Detection of Uncompetitive Behavior in Natural Resource Auctions Using Regression Analysis Open Access Author: Jung, In Kyo Title: Detection of Uncompetitive Behavior in Natural Resource Auctions Using Regression Analysis Area of Honors: Economics Keywords: Regressionauction theoryNew Hampshire Timber Auction File: Download JUNG_THESIS.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Sung Jae Jun, Thesis SupervisorRussell Paul Chuderewicz, Thesis Honors Advisor
3. New Mexico, Water, and Climate Resilience: An Overview of New Mexican Hydrology with Statistical Micro-Risk Assessment Open Access Author: St. Pierre, Elijah Title: New Mexico, Water, and Climate Resilience: An Overview of New Mexican Hydrology with Statistical Micro-Risk Assessment Area of Honors: Geosciences Keywords: New MexicoClimate ChangeWater ResourcesRegressionpolicy File: Download Thesis__St._Pierre.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Richard B Alley, Thesis SupervisorMaureen Feineman, Thesis Honors Advisor
4. Examination of Calendar Effect and Sentiment Analysis on Bitcoin Open Access Author: Liu, Chen Han Title: Examination of Calendar Effect and Sentiment Analysis on Bitcoin Area of Honors: Finance Keywords: Sentiment effectBitcoinEfficient marketRegressionPower ratioPythonCalendar EffectSentiment AnalysisBitcoinEfficient Market HypothesisRegressionPower RatioVADERPython File: Download Examination_of_Calendar_Effect_and_Sentiment_Analysis_on_Bitcoin2.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Brian Spangler Davis, Thesis SupervisorBrian Spangler Davis, Thesis Honors AdvisorQuanwei Cao, Faculty Reader
5. REITs and Inflation: The Recent Performance of REITs During the Periods of Varying Inflation Open Access Author: Patel, Yash Title: REITs and Inflation: The Recent Performance of REITs During the Periods of Varying Inflation Area of Honors: Finance Keywords: REITREITSReal EstateReal Estate Investment TrustInflationHedgeAssetReturnsCPIConsumer Price IndexRegressionOLSOrdinary Least SquaresPrivatePublicInvestmentInvestingCorrelationMarketStocksTrading File: Download Yash_N_Patel.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Eva Steiner, Thesis SupervisorBrian Spangler Davis, Thesis Honors Advisor
6. US Federal Political Candidate Self-Loaning Behavior: Non-Market Interest Rates, Tax, and Campaign Finance Law Implications Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Setzenfand, Ryan Title: US Federal Political Candidate Self-Loaning Behavior: Non-Market Interest Rates, Tax, and Campaign Finance Law Implications Area of Honors: Accounting Keywords: Campaign loanCampaign financeInterest ratesCandidateApplicable Federal RateTed Cruz for Senateet al.v. Federal Election CommissionSupreme CourtPresidentCongressTaxEthics and ComplianceRegressionBelow-Market LoansAbove-Market LoansNon-Market LoansIRSBipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002Politician Campaign Loan ParadoxCredit cardPersonal loan File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Robert Hills, Thesis SupervisorSamuel Burton Bonsall, IV, Thesis Honors Advisor