Browsing by Author "Bryan Shepherd"
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Huo, Xi (2014-06-26)Department: MathematicsThe work in this dissertation is about modeling the spread of an infectious disease in a closed community with two basic public health interventions: (i) identifying and isolating symptomatic cases, and (ii) tracing and ...
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Fu, Lingjun (2017-08-03)Department: BiostatisticsIn this thesis, we apply and adapt a new method to assess conditional associations in a large dataset from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Electronic Health Record (EHR). We estimate pairwise rank correlations ...
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Wu, Jisong (2009-06-23)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation studies the distributions of treatment effects in switching regimes models (SRMs). First, we propose a general class of SRMs and provide simple estimators of average treatment effects. Second, we establish ...
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Chen, Heng (2012-06-01)Department: EconomicsThe first chapter of my dissertation makes two main contributions to the econometrics literature on program evaluation. First, we show that under very mild conditions, a policy parameter, the local average treatment effect ...
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Park, Sang Soo (2008-06-17)Department: EconomicsMy dissertation focuses on partial identification of the distribution function of treatment effects. When treatment effects are believed to be heterogeneous, policy evaluation often requires knowledge of the distribution ...
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Wanga, Valentine Adhiambo (2014-07-25)Department: BiostatisticsThe discovery of genes linked with a large array of diseases has been accelerated by genome-wide association studies (GWAS), in which genetic variants in different individuals are examined for relationship with a specified ...
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Giganti, Mark Joseph (2018-08-29)Department: BiostatisticsObservational data from electronic health records (EHRs) are prone to errors which are often correlated across multiple variables. One strategy to assess EHR data quality is to compare the research study data to the original ...