• Empirical likelihood approach estimation of structural equation models 

    Yuan, Yiyong (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 ...
  • Statistical analysis of multivariate interval-censored failure time data 

    Chen, Man-Hua, 1973- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    A voluminous literature on right-censored failure time data has been developed in the past 30 years. Due to advances in biomedical research, interval censoring has become increasingly common in medical follow-up studies. ...