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Author:

Sloane, Justin Alexander

Title:

A BAYESIAN STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF HTLV-II EVOLUTIONARY RATES IN INTRAVENOUS DRUG USERS COMPARED TO ENDEMICALLY INFECTED TRIBES

Area of Honors:

Biology

Keywords:

Mutation Rate
Substitution Rate
HTLV
HTLV-II
Evolutionary Rates
Virology
Statistics
Bayesian
HIV
Phylogeny
Phylogenetics

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Beth Shapiro, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Beth Shapiro, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Bydlon, Samuel Adam

Title:

Do Earthquakes on Large Strike Slip Faults Follow a Gutenberg-Richter Distribution?

Area of Honors:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Gutenberg-Richter
Earthquake
Statistics
Kolmogorov-Smirnov
Catalog

File:

Download samBydlon_thesis_honors.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Maureen Feineman, Thesis Supervisor
Charles James Ammon, Thesis Supervisor

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

Author:

Mcmurtry, Scott Thomas

Title:

The Re-tweets of Victory, the Hashtags of Defeat

Area of Honors:

Letters, Arts, and Sciences

Keywords:

Letters
Arts
and Sciences
Sports
Baseball
Social Media
Statistics
Pittsburgh
Pirates
Technology

File:

Download Scott_McMurtry--Honors_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Debra Hawhee, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Jack L Selzer, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Kolb, Lauren Elise

Title:

Gender in Treaty Law: An Empirical Perspective

Area of Honors:

Political Science (Behrend)

Keywords:

Statistics
Multilateral Treaties
Women's Issues
Feminism
Gender
International Law
Empirical Methods
Quantitative

File:

Download Kolb_Lauren_GenderInTreatyLaw.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

John King Gamble Jr., Thesis Supervisor
John King Gamble Jr., Thesis Honors Advisor
Michael Rutter, Faculty Reader

Author:

Pistner, Michelle Anne

Title:

An Empirical Analysis of Demand in Collegiate Football

Area of Honors:

Interdisciplinary in Economics and Statistics

Keywords:

Statistics
football
sports

File:

Download Pistner_thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Peter William Newberry, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Russell Paul Chuderewicz, Thesis Honors Advisor
Murali Haran, Thesis Honors Advisor

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

Author:

Galambos, Samuel James

Title:

Creating A Better Basketball Stat-keeping System

Area of Honors:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Basketball
Statistics
User Interface
Android
Application

File:

Download Galambos_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Daniel Kifer, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. John Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Loggia, Christopher Angelo

Title:

Hitting the Moneyball Into the Luxury Box

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Finance
Baseball
Moneyball
Player Valuation
Z-Score
Sports
Statistics
Revenue
Attendance
Winning Percentage

File:

Download Chris_Loggia_Thesis_vf_4-13_Merged.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Robert Alexander Novack, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Brian Spangler Davis, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Brian Spangler Davis, Faculty Reader

Author:

Binder, Christian N

Title:

A TEST OF THE PREDICTIVE POWER OF VOLATILITY FORECASTING MODELS

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Finance
Volatility Forecasting
Econometrics
Statistics
Volatility
Time Series Analysis
GARCH
Forecasting
Implied Volatility

File:

Download Binder_Chris_Thesis_VolatilityForecasting.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Louis Gattis Jr., Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Brian Spangler Davis, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Blair, Richard Joseph

Title:

GETTING A KICK OUT OF FINANCE: A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF SOCCER’S TRANSFER MARKET

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Richard
Joseph
Blair
Finance
Statistics
Soccer
Sports
Moneyball
Valuation
Model

File:

Download RJB_Thesis_b.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Robert Alexander Novack, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Brian Spangler Davis, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

El-Zaatari, Helal Mohamad

Title:

Fitting a Bayesian Model Based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Area of Honors:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Statistics
Mathematics

File:

Download finalthesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Matthew Logan Reimherr, Thesis Supervisor
Sergei Tabachnikov, Thesis Honors Advisor

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

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

Author:

Coleman, Alexis

Title:

Assessing the Riskiness of Auto Drivers Through Psychological Factors

Area of Honors:

Actuarial Science

Keywords:

Underwriting
Auto Insurance
Psychological Factors
Aggression
Actuarial Science
Statistics
Actuarial
Rating Factors
Traditional Underwriting

File:

Download Alexis_Coleman_Thesis_2021_Finished.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Andrew John Wiesner, Thesis Supervisor
Steven L Putterman, Thesis Honors Advisor

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

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

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