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Bayesian methods on selected topics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Bayesian methods are widely adopted nowadays in statistical analysis. It is especially useful for the statistical inference of complex models or hierarchical models, for which the frequentist methods are usually difficult to be applied. Though as a...
Regression analysis of clustered interval-censored failure time data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Clustered failure time data occur when the failure times of interest are clustered into small groups, while interval censoring occurs when the event of interest cannot be observed directly and is only known to have occurred ...
Bayesian analysis of spatial and survival models with applications of computation techniques
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This dissertation discusses the methodologies of applying Bayesian hierarchical models to different data with geographical characteristics or with right-censored failure time. A conditional autoregressive (CAR) prior is ...
The State of Early Childhood Programs: 2009
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2009)
in the likelihood children will some day engage in criminal activity or be dependent on public welfare programs....
Effects of levels of statistics and the role of number anxiety on perceived story credibility and personal involvement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this research is to examine effects of levels of statistics on perceived story credibility and personal involvement and the role of number anxiety on these results...
Bayesian fMRI data analysis and Bayesian optimal design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The present dissertation consists of the work done on two projects. As part of the first project, we develop methodology for Bayesian hierarchical multi-subject multiscale analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging ...
Movement and learning in lecture classroooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
sets of the four professors' classes were statistically significant (t (19) = -2.358, p = .029; t (25) = -2.488, p = .020). Qualitative data were collected from interviews with participating professors. Three themes were noted as indicative of creating...
Classification problems in growth mixture modeling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
components. Often in applied research this methodology is applied to both of these situations indistinctly using the same fit statistics and likelihood ratio tests. This can lead to the over extraction of latent classes and the attribution of substantive...
Effects of a patient's name and image on medical knowledge acquisition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
.0001. Pairwise comparisons demonstrated a statistically significantly lower score on the CQA_K compared to the other tests. The results of this study show that including a name and facial image on MS' instructional materials may not improve knowledge acquisition...
Consumer and descriptive analysis of flavored omeprazole oral suspensions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
suspensions. Consumer preference data ana lysis reveals no significant differences between Strawberry cream without omeprazole, Zegerid [trademark symbol TM] and Tutifruti products. Descriptive data analyses by multivariate statistical tools showed...
Do elections prevent regulatory capture? An examination of public utility commission selection and regulatory outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
. Specifically, the paper aims to address whether elections prevent regulatory capture. This is tested with two case studies that utilize electricity and natural gas pricing and natural gas rate case outcomes. The results suggest that public utility commissioners...
Public perception of the effectiveness of public input in the parks and recreation planning process at the Boone County fairgrounds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The United States government process is open to the public, allowing the public to be involved with decisions that will shape their lives. Professionals still dominate the planning process and make the final decisions which shape government policy...
Redacted disclosure and analysts' weighting of private and public information
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This paper investigates whether and how redacting proprietary information in regulatory filings affects financial analysts' weighting of private and public information. I examine this issue in the context of initial public offerings (IPO) where...
Inflation and seigniorage studies in Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This paper explores the link between inflation and seigniorage, which is the revenue governments get from printing money. My research uses data from twenty-nine African countries in the time period 1981 to 2005 to find the ...
Can public relations professionals help span the boundaries between scientists and journalists, and does this function help increase accuracy of news articles about public health?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
A function of public relations professionals working for public health agencies is to perform a boundary-spanning role, facilitating communication between public health professionals and the news media. The purpose of this research was to examine...
A mixed model for variance of successive difference of stationary time series : modeling temporal instability in intensive longitudinal data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Temporal instability of a stochastic process has been of interest in many areas of behavioral and social science. Recent development in data collection techniques in behavioral and health sciences, such as Ecological ...
Improving information use through public health informatics systems & human resource capacity building
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
to the annual workshops, real-time tools are needed to support surveillance at district and national levels and continuous data use in public health sectors. The DHIS dataset is aggregated at the district level, lacking information on location within...
Three essays on economics of education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
modestly positive impacts. In Chapter 2, I estimate the effects of nursing articulation agreements between the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) and numerous public community colleges on the likelihood that community college students transfer to the MU...
Empirical likelihood approach estimation of structural equation models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This thesis provides a preliminary investigation of empirical likelihood approach estimation of structural equation models. An auxiliary variable approach built on general estimating equation methods in the EL settings is ...
The estimation of a corporate crisis communication based on perceived CEO's leadership, perceived severity of threats, and preceived opposing public's size
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Based on the contingency theory (Cancel, Mitrook, & Cameron, 1999), this study examined whether the perception of leadership as a powerful inner organizational factor influences the outside latent public's assessment of an organization's crisis...