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2024

Author​
(Supervi­sor(s))​

Thesis

Salahub, Chris
(Olford, W.)
Explorations in Pairwise Measures of Dependence and Pooled Significance
Wang, Lijia
(Zhu, Y., Cook, R.)                                                               
Joint modeling, variable selection and multiply robust estimation in mediation analysis with multiple mediators

2023

Author​
(Supervi­sor(s))​

Thesis

Panahi, Mahsa
(Steiner, S.)
Statistical Methods in the Search for a Dominant Cause of Variation
Mussavi Rizi, Marzieh
(Dubin, J.)

Dynamic Treatment Regimes and Interference in Dyadic Networks: A Joint Optimization Approach

Yin, Mingren
(Cai, J.)
Risk Measures of Stop-loss and Limited Loss Random  Variables under Model Uncertainty with Applications in Insurance
Yeh, Chi-Kuang
(Rice, G.)
Methods in Functional Data Analysis: Forecast Evaluation, Robust Serial Dependence Measures, and a Spatial Factor Copula Model
Sharp, Alexander
(Browne, R.)
Functional Finite Mixture Modelling and Estimation
Jiang, Ruihong
(Weng, C.)
Several Mathematical Problems in Investment Management

Hou-Liu, Jason
(Browne, R.)

Structured Mixture Models
Wang, Qiuqi
(Wang, R)

Characterizing, optimizing and backtesting metrics of risk

Pirnia, Shahab
(Chenouri, S.)
Enhanced Backward Multiple Change-Point Detection
Araiza Iturria, Carlos Andres
(Hardy, M., Marriott, P.)
Discrimination in Insurance Pricing
Li, Wenyuan
(Hardy, M., Seng Tan, K., Wei, P.)
Individual insurance choice: A stochastic control approach
Sun, Zhaohan
(Zhu, Y., Dubin, J.)
Causal Inference and Matrix Completion with Correlated Incomplete Data
Shuldiner, Pavel
(Oldford, W.)
A mathematical foundation for the use of cliques in the exploration of data with navigation graphs

2022

Author​
(Supervi­sor(s))​

Thesis

Meng, Yechao
(Weng, C., Diao, L.)
 
Mortality Prediction using Statistical Learning Approaches

Qi, Weinan
(Marriott, P., Shen, Y.)

Excursion Sets and Critical Points of Gaussian Random Fields

Chen, Yuyu
(Wang, R.)

Robust Risk Aggregation Techniques and Applications
Spicker, Dylan (Zachary)
(Wallace, M., Yi, G.)
Generalizations to Corrections of Measurement Error Effects for Dynamic Treatment Regimes

Jiang, Cong
(Wallace, M., Thompson, M.)

Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Interference
Dong, Gracia
(Lemieux, C.)
Constructions and applications of quasi-random point sets with negative dependence

Kim, Nam-Hwui
(Browne, R.)

Methods for Merging,Parsimony and Interpretability of Finite Mixture Models

Shum, Marco Yan Shing
(Marriott, P.)

On imprecision in statistical theory

Xu, Zehao
(Oldford, W.)

Interactive and Static Statistical Graphics: Bridge to Integration

Ramsay, Kelly
(Chenouri, S.)

Data Depth Inference for Difficult Data

Zhu, Feiyu
(Lysy, M.)

Single-Particle Dynamics in Nanoscopic Systems: Statistical Modeling and Inference

Wang, Zijia
(Landriault, D.)

On First Passage Time Related Problems for Some Insurance Risk Processes

Hintz, Erik
(Lemieux, C.)

Randomized quasi-Monte Carlo methods with applications to quantitative risk management

Mao, Fangya
(Cook, R.)

Design and Analysis of Life History Studies Involving Incomplete Data

Cheng, Lu
(Zhu, M.)

Computational Methods for Compositional Epistasis Detection

2021

Author​
(Supervi­sor(s))​

Thesis

Xie, Yijun
(Rice, G., Kolkiewicz, A.)

Applications of Projection Pursuit in Functional Data Analysis: Goodness-of- fit, Forecasting, and Change-point Detection

Zhuang, Haoxin
(Diao, L., Yi, G.)

Correlated Data Analysis with Copula Models or Bayesian Nonparametric Methods

Panju, Maysum
(Ghodsi, A.)

Automated Knowledge Discovery using Neural Networks

Dang, Ou
(Hardy, M.)

Efficient Nested Simulation of Tail Risk Measures for Variable Annuities

Dadbin, Maziar
(Stevens, N.)

Comparing Distributions with the Probability of Agreement

Sucholutsky, Ilia
(Schonlau, M.)

Learning From Almost No Data

Wang, Yumin
(Landriault, D.)

Selected Topics in Variable Annuities

Yang, Ce
(Cook, R.)

Topics in Study Design and Analysis Involving Incomplete Data

Xie, Bing Feng
(Cook, R.)

Failure Time Analysis with Discrete Marker Processes under Intermittent Observation

Yuan, Meng
(Li, P.)

Semiparametric Empirical Likelihood Inference under Two-sample Density Ratio Models

 
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2020

Author​
(Super­visor(s))
Thesis

Tian, Zhaoyang
(Li, P., Liang, K.)

Nonparametric Estimation in a Compound Mixture Model and False Discovery Rate Control with Auxiliary Information

Shi, Yidan
(Thomson, M., Zeng, L.)

Statistical Methods for Event History Data under Response Dependent Sampling and Incomplete Observation

Koike, Takaaki
(Hofert, M.)

Risk Analysis: Measures of concordance, their compatibility and capital allocation

Prasad, Avinash Srikanta
(Hofert, M., Zhu, M.)

Dependence: From classical copula modeling to neural networks

Meng, Fei
(Saunders, D.)

Valuation and Risk Management of Hedge Fund Investments under Alternative Fee Structures

Zhang, Qihuang
(Yi, G.)

Inference Methods for Noisy Correlated Responses with Measurement Error

Chen, Yilin
(Wu, C.)

Statistical Analysis with Non-probability Survey Samples

Fang, Junhan
(Yi, G.)

Matrix-Variate Regression with Measurement Error

Qiao, Rui
(Ghodsi, A.)

Peptide Sequencing with Deep Learning

Che, Menglu
(Han, P., Lawless, J.)

Empirical Likelihood Methods for Some Incomplete Data Problems

Cao, Jingyi
(Landriault, D., Bin, L.)

Some Stochastic Optimization Problems in Reinsurance and Insurance

He, Zhoushanyue
(Schonlau, M.)

On the Automatic Coding of Text Answers to Open-ended Questions in Surveys

Jia, Huameng
(Cai, J. )

Multivariate Risk Measures for Portfolio Risk Management

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