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1. STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN GENOMIC AND IMMUNE RESPONSE DYNAMICS: CLUES TO LENTIVIRUS PROTECTION

Open Access

Author:: Huso, Nicholas D
Title:: STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN GENOMIC AND IMMUNE RESPONSE DYNAMICS: CLUES TO LENTIVIRUS PROTECTION
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: HIV
FIV
Statisitics
Genetics
File:: Download Nick_Huso-Thesis-Sp2011.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Francesca Chiaromonte, Thesis Supervisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Thesis Supervisor
Mary Poss, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Ronald Albert Markle, Thesis Honors Advisor

2. Comparative Analysis of Fantasy Football Draft Projection Accuracy

Open Access

Author:: Andrejko, Paul Martin
Title:: Comparative Analysis of Fantasy Football Draft Projection Accuracy
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: fantasy football
draft projections
fantasy football draft
draft
espn
sports illustrated
yahoo
File:: Download Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Andrew John Wiesner, Thesis Supervisor
Andrew John Wiesner, Thesis Supervisor
Naomi S Altman, Thesis Honors Advisor

3. MIRCOECONOMETRICS: TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AND MODEL DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIVE INFLATION AND CONSUMPTION TRENDS

Open Access

Author:: Kapil, Alvin Milan
Title:: MIRCOECONOMETRICS: TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AND MODEL DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIVE INFLATION AND CONSUMPTION TRENDS
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Statistics
Inflation
Econometric.
File:: Download THESIS_KAPIL.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: David Russell Hunter, Thesis Supervisor
David Russell Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Zhibiao Zhao, Faculty Reader

4. Marijuana Use and Motor Vehicle Crahses

Open Access

Author:: Li, Mu-chen
Title:: Marijuana Use and Motor Vehicle Crahses
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Crashes
Traffic
Automobile
Risk
Marijuana
Cannabis
Meta-anaysis
File:: Download Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: David Russell Hunter, Thesis Supervisor
John Fricks, Thesis Honors Advisor

5. Time Series Methodologies towards Finanical Data Anaysis

Open Access

Author:: Jiang, Yunjie
Title:: Time Series Methodologies towards Finanical Data Anaysis
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Time Series
MA model
AR model
ARIMA model
ARCH/GARCH model
Volatility
File:: Download thesisRevised_.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Dr. Zhibiao Zhao, Thesis Supervisor
David Russell Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor

6. Which Area of the Golf Game is Most Important? A Statistical Analysis

Open Access

Author:: Clarke, Thomas Joseph
Title:: Which Area of the Golf Game is Most Important? A Statistical Analysis
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: golf
statistics
standardized regression
scoring average
PGA Tour
driving
putting
scrambling
File:: Download Thomas_Clarke_Golf_Statistical_Analysis_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: David Russell Hunter, Thesis Supervisor
David Russell Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor
Linda Clark, Faculty Reader

7. Developing a New Metric for NBA Player Evaluation: Points Per Lost Possession

Open Access

Author:: Gerberich, Derek C
Title:: Developing a New Metric for NBA Player Evaluation: Points Per Lost Possession
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: NBA
basketball
moneyball
Bill James
Bill Simmons
forecasting
points per lost possession
PPLP
predictive models
sports
File:: Download points_per_lost_possession.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Andrew John Wiesner, Thesis Supervisor
Murali Haran, Thesis Honors Advisor

8. An Investigation Into The Importance Of Accounting For Autocorrelated Errors In Regression Analysis

Open Access

Author:: Hengeveld, Maria Elisabeth
Title:: An Investigation Into The Importance Of Accounting For Autocorrelated Errors In Regression Analysis
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: regression analysis
simulation
correlated errors
autoregression
File:: Download Thesis_Hengeveld.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Durland Laurence Shumway, Thesis Supervisor
John Fricks, Thesis Honors Advisor

9. Predicting Major League Baseball Playoff Probabilities Using Logistic Regression

Open Access

Author:: Bittner, Evan James
Title:: Predicting Major League Baseball Playoff Probabilities Using Logistic Regression
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: statistics
baseball
logistic
regression
logistic regression
playoffs
probability
File:: Download Evan_Bittner_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Andrew John Wiesner, Thesis Supervisor
Murali Haran, Thesis Honors Advisor

10. Statistical Analysis of Pancreatic Cancer Circulating Tumor Cell Data

Open Access

Author:: Gearhart, Megan Elizabeth
Title:: Statistical Analysis of Pancreatic Cancer Circulating Tumor Cell Data
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Statistics
Clustering
Circulating Tumor Cells
Cancer
File:: Download Gearhart_Megan_StatisticalAnalysisofPancreaticCancerCirculatingTumorCellData.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Naomi S Altman, Thesis Supervisor
John Fricks, Thesis Honors Advisor
John Fricks, Faculty Reader

11. Carpenter Ant Trophallaxis as Modeled through Continuous-time Markov Chains

Open Access

Author:: Mattiace, John Michael
Title:: Carpenter Ant Trophallaxis as Modeled through Continuous-time Markov Chains
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: markov chain
trophallaxis
carpenter ant
exponential distribution
File:: Download mattiace_john_anttrophctmc.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Ephraim Mont Hanks, Thesis Supervisor
Naomi S Altman, Thesis Honors Advisor

12. Using Conventional and Sabermetric Baseball Statistics for Predicting Major League Baseball Win Percentage

Open Access

Author:: Decesare, Victoria Ellen
Title:: Using Conventional and Sabermetric Baseball Statistics for Predicting Major League Baseball Win Percentage
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: MLB
Major League Baseball
baseball
sabermetrics
regression analysis
statistics
correlation
sports statistics
File:: Download Victoria_DeCesare_Thesis_-_Final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Andrew John Wiesner, Thesis Supervisor
David Russell Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor

13. Statistical Properties of the Risk Transfer Formula in the Affordable Care Act

Open Access

Author:: Li, Michelle
Title:: Statistical Properties of the Risk Transfer Formula in the Affordable Care Act
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: health care
insurance
affordable care act
actuarial science
File:: Download Michelle_Li_Final_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Donald Richards, Thesis Supervisor
Murali Haran, Thesis Honors Advisor

14. Statistical Methods in Modeling Infectious Disease Dynamics

Open Access

Author:: Stocker, Kaitlyn Elizabeth
Title:: Statistical Methods in Modeling Infectious Disease Dynamics
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: statistics
infectious disease
measles
TSIR
File:: Download KStockerThesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Murali Haran, Thesis Supervisor
Murali Haran, Thesis Honors Advisor
Matthew D Beckman, Faculty Reader

15. APPLICATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING

Open Access

Author:: Chen, Edward Jing
Title:: APPLICATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: machine learning
kaggle
data science
data analytics
File:: Download Chen_Edward_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Ethan Fang, Thesis Supervisor
Murali Haran, Thesis Honors Advisor

16. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND AND ITS EFFECT ON COMPROMISE

Open Access

Author:: Kris, Boris
Title:: ACADEMIC BACKGROUND AND ITS EFFECT ON COMPROMISE
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: cooperation
compromise
greed
social heuristic hypothesis
File:: Download BorisKris_Thesis_Final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Kirsten Eilertson, Thesis Supervisor
Dennis Keith Pearl, Faculty Reader

17. The Structural Change in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Open Access

Author:: He, Zhiyi
Title:: The Structural Change in Sub-Saharan African Countries
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: structural change
Africa
employment share
labor productivity
File:: Download Zhiyi_He_-_Final_Thesis_Submission.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Thesis Supervisor
David Russell Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor

18. ANALYZING AND PREDICTING THE SUCCESS OF NBA SECOND-ROUND PICKS USING ADVANCED COLLEGE PERFORMANCE METRICS

Open Access

Author:: Yang, Jay
Title:: ANALYZING AND PREDICTING THE SUCCESS OF NBA SECOND-ROUND PICKS USING ADVANCED COLLEGE PERFORMANCE METRICS
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: statistics
basketball
regression
NBA
NBA Draft
college basketball
File:: Download ANALYZING_AND_PREDICTING_THE_SUCCESS_OF_NBA_SECOND-ROUND_PICKS_USING_ADVANCED_COLLEGE_PERFORMANCE_METRICS.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Andrew John Wiesner, Thesis Supervisor
Matthew D Beckman, Thesis Honors Advisor

19. Detecting Deferentially Interacting Region from HiC Data

Open Access

Author:: Wang, Luxin
Title:: Detecting Deferentially Interacting Region from HiC Data
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Hi-C
Statistics
genetics
bioinformatics
File:: Download thesis_final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Qunhua Li, Thesis Supervisor
David Russell Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor

20. The Future of Pricing and Selling Flood Insurance in the United States

Open Access

Author:: Cikowski, Shannon Patricia
Title:: The Future of Pricing and Selling Flood Insurance in the United States
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: actuarial science
flood risk
flood insurance
catastrophe
insurance
File:: Download Cikowski_Shannon_The_Future_of_Selling_and_Pricing_Flood_Insurance.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Zhongyi Yuan, Thesis Supervisor
David Russell Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor

21. Bootstrap Methods Within Bayesian Networks For Estimating Statistics Students Knowledge of Hypothesis Tests

Open Access

Author:: Mc Intyre, Thomas
Title:: Bootstrap Methods Within Bayesian Networks For Estimating Statistics Students Knowledge of Hypothesis Tests
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: bootstrapping
R
R Shiny Apps
Bayesian Networks
Educational Application
Hypothesis Testing
"bnlearn" R Package
File:: Download THOMAS_MCINTYRE_THESIS.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Dennis Keith Pearl, Thesis Supervisor
Dennis Keith Pearl, Thesis Honors Advisor
Michelle Elaine Paret, Faculty Reader

22. Predicting Ant Movements in Analog Filtering and Recurrent Neural Networks

Open Access

Author:: Wang, Tianhao
Title:: Predicting Ant Movements in Analog Filtering and Recurrent Neural Networks
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Analog Filtering; Recurrent Neural Network
File:: Download thesis_tianhao_wang_final.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Ephraim Mont Hanks, Thesis Supervisor
David Russell Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor

23. Clustering Time-Evolving Bipartite Networks

Open Access

Author:: Zhang, Yinqi
Title:: Clustering Time-Evolving Bipartite Networks
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Model-based clustering
variational expectation-maximization algorithm
network analysis
bipartite networks
File:: Download ayzhang_honors_thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Lingzhou Xue, Thesis Supervisor
David Russell Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor

24. Predicting CRISPR-CAS9 Genome Editing Outcomes with Machine Learning Methods

Open Access

Author:: Ting, Angela
Title:: Predicting CRISPR-CAS9 Genome Editing Outcomes with Machine Learning Methods
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: statistics
File:: Download thesis_ting.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Qunhua Li, Thesis Supervisor
David Russell Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor

25. Genetic Analysis for Parkinson’s disease

Open Access

Author:: Wu, Yutong
Title:: Genetic Analysis for Parkinson’s disease
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Statistics
Biostatistics
File:: Download Wu_Yutong_GENETIC_ANALYSIS_FOR_PARKINSONS_DISEASE.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Daisy Lahaina Philtron, Thesis Supervisor
David Russell Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor

26. And the Oscar Goes to... (An Application and Comparison of Models Used to Predict the Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture)

Open Access

Author:: Slayton, Joshua
Title:: And the Oscar Goes to... (An Application and Comparison of Models Used to Predict the Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture)
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: statistics
logistic regression
decision tree
leave-one-out cross validation
oscars
academy awards
best picture
prediction
data analysis
classification
regression
File:: Download Slayton_Josh_AndTheOscarGoesTo.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Michael Rutter, Thesis Supervisor
Michael Rutter, Thesis Honors Advisor
Terry Mark Blakney, Faculty Reader

27. analysis of Statistical teaching software -- Shiny App

Open Access

Author:: Zhang, Shunqi
Title:: analysis of Statistical teaching software -- Shiny App
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: R Shiny Apps
Bayesian Network
Matching Distribution
Generalized Linear Mixed Models
Correlation Guessing
Cross Correlation
File:: Download Honor_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Dennis Keith Pearl, Thesis Supervisor
Dennis Keith Pearl, Thesis Honors Advisor
Matthew D Beckman, Faculty Reader

28. Unintentional Single-Family Loan Price and Approval Discrimination on Race through Financial Deserts

Open Access

Author:: Liang, Deric
Title:: Unintentional Single-Family Loan Price and Approval Discrimination on Race through Financial Deserts
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: statistics
economics
mortgages
financial deserts
discrimination
regression
regularization
regression tree
market competition
File:: Download LiangDericThesis_FINAL.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Qi Li, Thesis Supervisor
Jia Li, Thesis Honors Advisor

29. The Effect of Overlapping Generations on Inferences of Genetic Population Structure

Open Access

Author:: Setar, Nathaniel
Title:: The Effect of Overlapping Generations on Inferences of Genetic Population Structure
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Population Genetics
fastSTRUCTURE
Overlapping Generations
Coral
Bioinformatics
File:: Download Thesis_Final_Setar.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Iliana Brigitta Baums, Thesis Supervisor
Le Bao, Thesis Honors Advisor

30. Estimating Sub-National Female Sex Worker Population Sizes in Sub-Saharan Africa with Regression Analysis

Open Access

Author:: Chen, David
Title:: Estimating Sub-National Female Sex Worker Population Sizes in Sub-Saharan Africa with Regression Analysis
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: HIV
Linear mixed-effects model
Female sex workers
File:: Download FSW_SSA_Size_Estimation.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Le Bao, Thesis Supervisor
Le Bao, Thesis Honors Advisor
Xiaoyue Niu, Faculty Reader

31. The Prediction of Coronavirus Cases and an Analysis of the Factors Contributing to its Spread Across Universities in the United States

Open Access

Author:: Vo, Christopher
Title:: The Prediction of Coronavirus Cases and an Analysis of the Factors Contributing to its Spread Across Universities in the United States
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Coronavirus
Artificial Neural Network
Deep Learning
Multiple Linear Regression
Support Vector Regression
File:: Download ChrisVo_Honors_Thesis.pdfDownload ANN_Covid_College_pred.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Lingzhou Xue, Thesis Supervisor
Le Bao, Thesis Honors Advisor

32. A Hybrid Model of Convolutional Neural Network and Gradient Boosting

Open Access

Author:: Huang, Ruijie
Title:: A Hybrid Model of Convolutional Neural Network and Gradient Boosting
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Image classification
machine learning
convolutional neural network
gradient boost
data analysis
File:: Download HonorThesis_RuijieHuang_FinalVersion.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Prabhani Kuruppumullage Don, Thesis Supervisor
Ethan Xingyuan Fang, Thesis Honors Advisor

33. How Wildfires are Affecting the Insurance Market in California

Open Access

Author:: Ogunrombi, Ayooluwatomiwa
Title:: How Wildfires are Affecting the Insurance Market in California
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Wildfires
Insurance
California
File:: Download Ogunrombi_Ayooluwatomiwa_How_Wildfires_are_Affecting_the_Insurance_Market_in_California_.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Dennis Keith Pearl, Thesis Supervisor
Ethan Xingyuan Fang, Thesis Honors Advisor

34. A Qualitative Approach to Predicting the Success of NFL Draftees

Open Access

Author:: Insley, Drew
Title:: A Qualitative Approach to Predicting the Success of NFL Draftees
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: NFL
Sports Analytics
Statistics
Machine Learning
File:: Download Insley_Thesis.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Andrew John Wiesner, Thesis Supervisor
Matthew D Beckman, Thesis Honors Advisor

35. Robustness of LIME on Image Classification Models

Open Access

Author:: Luo, Zhuolin
Title:: Robustness of LIME on Image Classification Models
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Convolutional Neural Network
Image Classification
LIME
Robustness of LIME
Trustworthiness of AI
Interpretability
File:: Download thesis_ZL.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Jia Li, Thesis Supervisor
Priyangi Kanchana Bulathsinhala, Thesis Honors Advisor

36. Optimizing Roster Composition in Major League Baseball

Open Access

Author:: Kroboth, Kyle
Title:: Optimizing Roster Composition in Major League Baseball
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: sports
analytics
baseball
market size
regression
statistics
linear
File:: Download Honors_Thesis_-_Roster_Composition_-_KK.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Andrew John Wiesner, Thesis Supervisor
Matthew D Beckman, Thesis Honors Advisor

37. Predicting the Outcome of the Final Sixteen Teams in College Basketball Using Time Series Analysis and Markov Chains

Open Access

Author:: Miller, Christopher
Title:: Predicting the Outcome of the Final Sixteen Teams in College Basketball Using Time Series Analysis and Markov Chains
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Statistics
College Basketball
Time-Series
File:: Download Miller_Christopher_PredicitingMarchMadnessTimeSeries.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Andrew John Wiesner, Thesis Supervisor
David Hunter, Thesis Honors Advisor

38. Comparing Efficacy of Secondary School Bell Schedules at Mitigating Infectious Diseases

Open Access

Author:: Sim, Julian
Title:: Comparing Efficacy of Secondary School Bell Schedules at Mitigating Infectious Diseases
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Statistics
Infectious Disease
Networks
ERGM
Epidemiology
Graph Theory
EpiModel
File:: Download Sim_Julian_Comparing_Efficacy_Of_Secondary_School_Bell_Schedules_At_Mitigating_Infectious_Diseases.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: David Hunter, Thesis Supervisor
Matthew D Beckman, Thesis Honors Advisor

39. Evaluating Orderbook Imbalance as a Midpoint Forecaster

Open Access

Author:: Gabbireddy, Vineeth
Title:: Evaluating Orderbook Imbalance as a Midpoint Forecaster
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Orderbook Imbalance
HFT
Market Making
File:: Download Thesis-_Gabireddy_corrected.pdf
Thesis Supervisors:: Christoph Hinkelmann, Thesis Supervisor
Matthew D Beckman, Thesis Honors Advisor

40. A Naïve Methodology for Imputing Missing Survey Information due to Survey Skip Conditions

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Author:: Hopkins, Grant
Title:: A Naïve Methodology for Imputing Missing Survey Information due to Survey Skip Conditions
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: Population-Based HIV Impact Assessments
Survey
Deduction-Complete Dataset
Skip Condition
Missing Data
Sequentially Asked Questions
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Thesis Supervisors:: Le Bao, Thesis Supervisor
Matthew D Beckman, Thesis Honors Advisor

41. A-ManPG for sparse PCA via penalized matrix approximation

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Author:: Huang, Justin
Title:: A-ManPG for sparse PCA via penalized matrix approximation
Area of Honors:: Statistics
Keywords:: machine learning
pca
unsupervised learning
optimization
sparse pca
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Thesis Supervisors:: Lingzhou Xue, Thesis Supervisor
Matthew D Beckman, Thesis Honors Advisor

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