Browsing 2009 Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Department "Statistics (MU)"
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Adaptive optimal design with application to a two drug combination trial based on efficiency-toxicity response
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The first part of this dissertation develops an adaptive optimal design for dose-finding with combination therapies that accounts for both efficacy ... -
Bayes factor consistency in linear models when p grows with n
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines consistency of Bayes factors in the model comparison problem for linear models. Common approaches to Bayesian analysis of ... -
Bayesian smoothing spline analysis of variance models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Based on the pioneering work by Wahba (1990) in smoothing splines for nonparametric regression, Gu (2002) decomposed the regression function based on a tensor sum decomposition of inner product spaces into orthogonal ... -
A hierarchical Bayesian mixture approach for modeling reflectivity fields with application to Nowcasting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] We study a hierarchical Bayesian framework for finite mixtures of distributions. We first consider a Dirichlet mixture of normal components and utilize ... -
Hierarchical physical-statistical forecasting in the atmospheric sciences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] A class of hierarchical Bayesian models is introduced for Physical-Statistical forecasting purposes in the Atmospheric Sciences. The first project ... -
Multiple imputation approaches to regression analysis of interval-censored failure time data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation discusses regression analysis of interval-censored failure time data, which occur in many fields including demographical, epidemiological, ... -
Nonparametric analysis of interval-censored failure time data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This thesis considers the problem of treatment comparisons when only interval-censored failure time data are available. This type of data occurs frequently in clinical trials and other follow-up studies. We study several ... -
Statistical analysis for survival data with missing information
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)As a branch of statistics, survival analysis, which is often referred to as "reliability theory" in engineering, has a long history. While in practical problems, some information might be missing. This dissertation discusses ... -
Statistical analysis of failure time data with missing information
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Failure time data arise in many fields and can involve different types of censoring structures and missing information. We consider three cases: right-censored data with missing censoring indicators, clustered current ...