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Zhou, Haochuan. "Statistical Inferences for the Youden Index." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/math_diss/5.

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In diagnostic test studies, one crucial task is to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a test. Currently, most studies focus on the Receiver Operating Characteristics Curve and the Area Under the Curve. On the other hand, the Youden index, widely applied in practice, is another comprehensive measurement for the performance of a diagnostic test. For a continuous-scale test classifying diseased and non-diseased groups, finding the Youden index of the test is equivalent to maximize the sum of sensitivity and specificity for all the possible values of the cut-point. This dissertation concentrates on statistical inferences for the Youden index. First, an auxiliary tool for the Youden index, called the diagnostic curve, is defined and used to evaluate the diagnostic test. Second, in the paired-design study to assess the diagnostic accuracy of two biomarkers, the difference in paired Youden indices frequently acts as an evaluation standard. We propose an exact confidence interval for the difference in paired Youden indices based on generalized pivotal quantities. A maximum likelihood estimate-based interval and a bootstrap-based interval are also included in the study. Third, for certain diseases, an intermediate level exists between diseased and non-diseased status. With such concern, we define the Youden index for three ordinal groups, propose the empirical estimate of the Youden index, study the asymptotic properties of the empirical Youden index estimate, and construct parametric and nonparametric confidence intervals for the Youden index. Finally, since covariates often affect the accuracy of a diagnostic test, therefore, we propose estimates for the Youden index with a covariate adjustment under heteroscedastic regression models for the test results. Asymptotic properties of the covariate-adjusted Youden index estimators are investigated under normal error and non-normal error assumptions.

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Zhao, Ming. "Some Topics on Semiparametric Statistical Inferences." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1341621928.

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Meng, Liang. "Statistical inferences of biophysical neural models." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12819.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
A fundamental issue in neuroscience is to understand the dynamic properties of, and biological mechanisms underlying, neural spiking activity. Two types of approaches have been developed: statistical and biophysical modeling. Statistical models focus on describing simple relationships between observed neural spiking activity and the signals that the brain encodes. Biophysical models concentrate on describing the biological mechanisms underlying the generation of spikes. Despite a large body of work, there remains an unbridged gap between the two model types. In this thesis, we propose a statistical framework linking observed spiking patterns to a general class of dynamic neural models. The framework uses a sequential Monte Carlo, or particle filtering, method to efficiently explore the parameter space of a detailed dynamic or biophysical model. We utilize point process theory to develop a procedure for estimating parameters and hidden variables in neuronal biophysical models given only the observed spike times. We successfully implement this method for simulated examples and address the issues of model identification and misspecification. We then apply the particle filter to actual spiking data recorded from rat layer V cortical neurons and show that it correctly identifies the dynamics of a non-traditional, intrinsic current. The method succeeds even though the observed cells exhibit two distinct classes of spiking activity: regular spiking and bursting. We propose that the approach can also frame hypotheses of underlying intrinsic currents that can be directly tested by current or future biological and/or psychological experiments. We then demonstrate the application of the proposed method to a separate problem: constructing a hypothesis test to investigate whether a point process is generated by a constant or dynamically varying intensity function. The hypothesis is formulated as an autoregressive state space model, which reduces the testing problem to a test on the variance of the state process. We apply the particle filtering method to compute test statistics and identify the rejection region. A simulation study is performed to quantify the power of this test procedure. Ultimately, the modeling framework and estimation procedures we developed provide a successful link between dynamical neural models and statistical inference from spike train data.

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Sharghi, Sima. "Statistical inferences for missing data/causal inferences based on modified empirical likelihood." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1624823412604593.

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Grossman, Jason. "Inferences from observations to simple statistical hypotheses." Phd thesis, Department of Philosophy, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9107.

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Zhang, Shiju. "Statistical Inferences under a semiparametric finite mixture model." See Full Text at OhioLINK ETD Center (Requires Adobe Acroba Reader for viewing), 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?toledo1135779503.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toledo, 2005.
Typescript. "A dissertation [submitted] as partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mathematics." Bibliography: leaves 100-105.

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Stewart, Patrick. "Statistical Inferences on Inflated Data Based on Modified Empirical Likelihood." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1590455262157706.

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Lu, Tsui-Shan Zhou Haibo. "Statistical inferences for outcome dependent sampling design with multivariate outcomes." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2447.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 3, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health." "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health." Discipline: Biostatistics; Department/School: Public Health.

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Fan, Cong Cong Michelle. "A multiplicative model of the transmission rate and its statistical inferences." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63595.pdf.

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Wang, Xing. "Inferences about Parameters of Trivariate Normal Distribution with Missing Data." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/933.

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Multivariate normal distribution is commonly encountered in any field, a frequent issue is the missing values in practice. The purpose of this research was to estimate the parameters in three-dimensional covariance permutation-symmetric normal distribution with complete data and all possible patterns of incomplete data. In this study, MLE with missing data were derived, and the properties of the MLE as well as the sampling distributions were obtained. A Monte Carlo simulation study was used to evaluate the performance of the considered estimators for both cases when ρ was known and unknown. All results indicated that, compared to estimators in the case of omitting observations with missing data, the estimators derived in this article led to better performance. Furthermore, when ρ was unknown, using the estimate of ρ would lead to the same conclusion.

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ZHANG, DONG. "Statistical Inferences of Comparison between two Correlated ROC Curves with Empirical Likelihood Approaches." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1341253848.

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Akki, Rashi. "Morphological implications of phase transitions in polymer solutions : inferences from polyacrylonitrile-based solutions." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/15783.

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Zeng, Xiandi. "The estimation and statistical inferences of the position and orientation of a scanning laser Doppler vibrometer." Diss., This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10302008-063011/.

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Zeller, Camila Borelli. "Modelo de Grubbs em grupos." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/307093.

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Orientador: Filidor Edilfonso Vilca Labra
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matematica, Estatistica e Computação Cientifica
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Resumo: Neste trabalho, apresentamos um estudo de inferência estatística no modelo de Grubbs em grupos, que representa uma extensão do modelo proposto por Grubbs (1948,1973) que é freqüentemente usado para comparar instrumentos ou métodos de medição. Nós consideramos a parametrização proposta por Bedrick (2001). O estudo é baseado no método de máxima verossimilhança. Testes de hipóteses são considerados e baseados nas estatísticas de wald, escore e razão de verossimilhanças. As estimativas de máxima verossimilhança do modelo de Grubbs em grupos são obtidas usando o algoritmo EM e considerando que as observações seguem uma distribuição normal. Apresentamos um estudo de análise de diagnóstico no modelo de Grubbs em grupos com o interesse de avaliar o impacto que um determinado subgrupo exerce na estimativa dos parâmetros. Vamos utilizar a metodologia de influência local proposta por Cook (1986), considerando o esquema de perturbação: ponderação de casos. Finalmente, apresentamos alguns estudos de simulação e ilustramos os resultados teóricos obtidos usando dados encontrados na literatura
Abstract: In this work, we presented a study of statistical inference in the Grubbs's model with subgroups, that represents an extension of the model proposed by Grubbs (1948,1973) that is frequently used to compare instruments or measurement methods. We considered the parametrization proposed by Bedrick (2001). The study is based on the maximum likelihood method. Tests of hypotheses are considered and based on the wald statistics, score and likelihood ratio statistics. The maximum likelihood estimators of the Grubbs's model with subgroups are obtained using the algorithm EM and considering that the observations follow a normal distribution. We also presented a study of diagnostic analysis in the Grubb's model with subgroups with the interest of evaluating the effect that a certain one subgroup exercises in the estimate of the parameters. We will use the methodology of local influence proposed by Cook (1986) considering the schemes of perturbation of case weights. Finally, we presented some simulation studies and we illustrated the obtained theoretical results using data found in the literature
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Hsieh, PingHsun. "Model-Based Population Genetics in Indigenous Humans: Inferences of Demographic History, Adaptive Selection, and African Archaic Admixture using Whole-Genome/Exome Sequencing Data." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/612540.

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Reconstructing the origins and evolutionary journey of humans is a central piece of biology. Complementary to archeology, population genetics studying genetic variation among individuals in extant populations has made considerable progress in understanding the evolution of our species. Particularly, studies in indigenous humans provide valuable insights on the prehistory of humans because their life history closely resembles that of our ancestors. Despite these efforts, it can be difficult to disentangle population genetic inferences because of the interplay among evolutionary forces, including mutation, recombination, selection, and demographic processes. To date, few studies have adopted a comprehensive framework to jointly account for these confounding effects. The shortage of such an approach inspired this dissertation work, which centered on the development of model-based analysis and demonstrated its importance in population genetic inferences. Indigenous African Pygmy hunter-gatherers have been long studied because of interest in their short stature, foraging subsistence strategy in rainforests, and long-term socio-economic relationship with nearby farmers. I proposed detailed demographic models using genomes from seven Western African Pygmies and nine Western African farmers (Appendix A). Statistical evidence was shown for a much deeper divergence than previously thought and for asymmetric migrations with a larger contribution from the farmers to Pygmies. The model-based analyses revealed significant adaption signals in the Pygmies for genes involved in muscle development, bone synthesis, immunity, reproduction, etc. I also showed that the proposed model-based approach is robust to the confounding effects of evolutionary forces (Appendix A). Contrary to the low-latitude African homeland of humans, the indigenous Siberians are long-term survivors inhabiting one of the coldest places on Earth. Leveraging whole exome sequencing data from two Siberian populations, I presented demographic models for these North Asian dwellers that include divergence, isolation, and gene flow (Appendix B). The best-fit models suggested a closer genetic affinity of these Siberians to East Asians than to Europeans. Using the model-based framework, seven NCBI BioSystems gene sets showed significance for polygenic selection in these Siberians. Interestingly, many of these candidate gene sets are heavily related to diet, indicating possible adaptations to special dietary requirements in these populations in cold, resource-limited environments. Finally, I moved beyond studying the history of extant humans to explore the origins of our species in Africa (Appendix C). Specifically, with statistical analyses using genomes only from extant Africans, I rejected the null model of no archaic admixture in Africa and in turn gave the first whole-genome evidence for interbreeding among human species in Africa. Using extensive simulation analyses under various archaic admixture models, the results suggest recurrent admixture between the ancestors of archaic and modern Africans, with evidence that at least one such event occurred in the last 30,000 years in Africa.

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Frey, Jesse C. "Inference procedures based on order statistics." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1122565389.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 148 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-148). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Lee, Yun-Soo. "On some aspects of distribution theory and statistical inference involving order statistics." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/834141.

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Statistical methods based on nonparametric and distribution-free procedures require the use of order statistics. Order statistics are also used in many parametric estimation and testing problems. With the introduction of modern high speed computers, order statistics have gained more importance in recent years in statistical inference - the main reason being that ranking a large number of observations manually was difficult and time consuming in the past, which is no longer the case at present because of the availability of high speed computers. Also, applications of order statistics require in many cases the use of numerical tables and computer is needed to construct these tables.In this thesis, some basic concepts and results involving order statistics are provided. Typically, application of the Theory of Permanents in the distribution of order statistics are discussed. Further, the correlation coefficient between the smallest observation (Y1) and the largest observation (Y,,) of a random sample of size n from two gamma populations, where (n-1) observations of the sample are from one population and the remaining observation is from the other population, is presented.
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Kim, Woosuk. "Statistical Inference on Dual Generalized Order Statistics for Burr Type III Distribution." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396533232.

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Jones, Lee K., and Richard C. 1943 Larson. "Efficient Computation of Probabilities of Events Described by Order Statistics and Application to a Problem of Queues." Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5159.

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Consider a set of N i.i.d. random variables in [0, 1]. When the experimental values of the random variables are arranged in ascending order from smallest to largest, one has the order statistics of the set of random variables. In this note an O(N3) algorithm is developed for computing the probability that the order statistics vector lies in a given rectangle. The new algorithm is then applied to a problem of statistical inference in queues. Illustrative computational results are included.

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Ho, Man Wai. "Bayesian inference for models with monotone densities and hazard rates /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2002. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ISMT%202002%20HO.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-114). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

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Villalobos, Isadora Antoniano. "Bayesian inference for models with infinite-dimensionally generated intractable components." Thesis, University of Kent, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594106.

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Thabane, Lehana. "Contributions to Bayesian statistical inference." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq31133.pdf.

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Yang, Liqiang. "Statistical Inference for Gap Data." NCSU, 2000. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-20001110-173900.

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This thesis research is motivated by a special type of missing data - Gap Data, which was first encountered in a cardiology study conducted at Duke Medical School. This type of data include multiple observations of certain event time (in this medical study the event is the reopenning of a certain artery), some of them may have one or more missing periods called ``gaps'' before observing the``first'' event. Therefore, for those observations, the observed first event may not be the true first event because the true first event might have happened in one of the missing gaps. Due to this kind of missing information, estimating the survival function of the true first event becomes very difficult. No research nor discussion has been done on this type of data by now. In this thesis, the auther introduces a new nonparametric estimating method to solve this problem. This new method is currently called Imputed Empirical Estimating (IEE) method. According to the simulation studies, the IEE method provide a very good estimate of the survival function of the true first event. It significantly outperforms all the existing estimating approaches in our simulation studies. Besides the new IEE method, this thesis also explores the Maximum Likelihood Estimate in thegap data case. The gap data is introduced as a special type of interval censored data for thefirst time. The dependence between the censoring interval (in the gap data case is the observedfirst event time point) and the event (in the gap data case is the true first event) makes the gap data different from the well studied regular interval censored data. This thesis points of theonly difference between the gap data and the regular interval censored data, and provides a MLEof the gap data under certain assumptions.The third estimating method discussed in this thesis is the Weighted Estimating Equation (WEE)method. The WEE estimate is a very popular nonparametric approach currently used in many survivalanalysis studies. In this thesis the consistency and asymptotic properties of the WEE estimateused in the gap data are discussed. Finally, in the gap data case, the WEE estimate is showed to be equivalent to the Kaplan-Meier estimate. Numerical examples are provied in this thesis toillustrate the algorithm of the IEE and the MLE approaches. The auther also provides an IEE estimate of the survival function based on the real-life data from Duke Medical School. A series of simulation studies are conducted to assess the goodness-of-fit of the new IEE estimate. Plots and tables of the results of the simulation studies are presentedin the second chapter of this thesis.

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Sun, Xiaohai. "Causal inference from statistical data /." Berlin : Logos-Verl, 2008. http://d-nb.info/988947331/04.

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Czogiel, Irina. "Statistical inference for molecular shapes." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12217/.

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This thesis is concerned with developing statistical methods for evaluating and comparing molecular shapes. Techniques from statistical shape analysis serve as a basis for our methods. However, as molecules are fuzzy objects of electron clouds which constantly undergo vibrational motions and conformational changes, these techniques should be modified to be more suitable for the distinctive features of molecular shape. The first part of this thesis is concerned with the continuous nature of molecules. Based on molecular properties which have been measured at the atom positions, a continuous field--based representation of a molecule is obtained using methods from spatial statistics. Within the framework of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, a similarity index for two molecular shapes is proposed which can then be used for the pairwise alignment of molecules. The alignment is carried out using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and posterior inference. In the Bayesian setting, it is also possible to introduce additional parameters (mask vectors) which allow for the fact that only part of the molecules may be similar. We apply our methods to a dataset of 31 steroid molecules which fall into three activity classes with respect to the binding activity to a common receptor protein. To investigate which molecular features distinguish the activity classes, we also propose a generalisation of the pairwise method to the simultaneous alignment of several molecules. The second part of this thesis is concerned with the dynamic aspect of molecular shapes. Here, we consider a dataset containing time series of DNA configurations which have been obtained using molecular dynamic simulations. For each considered DNA duplex, both a damaged and an undamaged version are available, and the objective is to investigate whether or not the damage induces a significant difference to the the mean shape of the molecule. To do so, we consider bootstrap hypothesis tests for the equality of mean shapes. In particular, we investigate the use of a computationally inexpensive algorithm which is based on the Procrustes tangent space. Two versions of this algorithm are proposed. The first version is designed for independent configuration matrices while the second version is specifically designed to accommodate temporal dependence of the configurations within each group and is hence more suitable for the DNA data.

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方以德 and Yee-tak Daniel Fong. "Statistical inference on biomedical models." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31210788.

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Liu, Fei, and 劉飛. "Statistical inference for banding data." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41508701.

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Junklewitz, Henrik. "Statistical inference in radio astronomy." Diss., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-177457.

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This thesis unifies several studies, which all are dedicated to the subject of statistical data analysis in radio astronomy and radio astrophysics. Radio astronomy, like astronomy as a whole, has undergone a remarkable development in the past twenty years in introducing new instruments and technologies. New telescopes like the upgraded VLA, LOFAR, or the SKA and its pathfinder missions offer unprecedented sensitivities, previously uncharted frequency domains and unmatched survey capabilities. Many of these have the potential to significantly advance the science of radio astrophysics and cosmology on all scales, from solar and stellar physics, Galactic astrophysics and cosmic magnetic fields, to Galaxy cluster astrophysics and signals from the epoch of reionization. Since then, radio data analysis, calibration and imaging techniques have entered a similar phase of new development to push the boundaries and adapt the field to the new instruments and scientific opportunities. This thesis contributes to these greater developments in two specific subjects, radio interferometric imaging and cosmic magnetic field statistics. Throughout this study, different data analysis techniques are presented and employed in various settings, but all can be summarized under the broad term of statistical infer- ence. This subject encompasses a huge variety of statistical techniques, developed to solve problems in which deductions have to be made from incomplete knowledge, data or measurements. This study focuses especially on Bayesian inference methods that make use of a subjective definition of probabilities, allowing for the expression of probabilities and statistical knowledge prior to an actual measurement. The thesis contains two different sets of application for such techniques. First, situations where a complicated, and generally ill-posed measurement problem can be approached by assuming a statistical signal model prior to infer the desired measured variable. Such a problem very often is met should the measurement device take less data then needed to constrain all degrees of freedom of the problem. The principal case investigated in this thesis is the measurement problem of a radio interferometer, which takes incomplete samples of the Fourier transformed intensity of the radio emission in the sky, such that it is impossible to exactly recover the signal. The new imaging algorithm RESOLVE is presented, optimal for extended radio sources. A first showcase demonstrates the performance of the new technique on real data. Further, a new Bayesian approach to multi-frequency radio interferometric imaging is presented and integrated into RESOLVE. The second field of application are astrophysical problems, in which the inherent stochas- tic nature of a physical process demands a description, where properties of physical quanti- ties can only be statistically estimated. Astrophysical plasmas for instance are very often in a turbulent state, and thus governed by statistical hydrodynamical laws. Two studies are presented that show how properties of turbulent plasma magnetic fields can be inferred from radio observations.

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Bell, Paul W. "Statistical inference for multidimensional scaling." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327197.

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Covarrubias, Carlos Cuevas. "Statistical inference for ROC curves." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399489.

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Oe, Bianca Madoka Shimizu. "Statistical inference in complex networks." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-28032017-095426/.

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The complex network theory has been extensively used to understand various natural and artificial phenomena made of interconnected parts. This representation enables the study of dynamical processes running on complex systems, such as epidemics and rumor spreading. The evolution of these dynamical processes is influenced by the organization of the network. The size of some real world networks makes it prohibitive to analyse the whole network computationally. Thus it is necessary to represent it by a set of topological measures or to reduce its size by means of sampling. In addition, most networks are samples of a larger networks whose structure may not be captured and thus, need to be inferred from samples. In this work, we study both problems: the influence of the structure of the network in spreading processes and the effects of sampling in the structure of the network. Our results suggest that it is possible to predict the final fraction of infected individuals and the final fraction of individuals that came across a rumor by modeling them with a beta regression model and using topological measures as regressors. The most influential measure in both cases is the average search information, that quantifies the ease or difficulty to navigate through a network. We have also shown that the structure of a sampled network differs from the original network and that the type of change depends on the sampling method. Finally, we apply four sampling methods to study the behaviour of the epidemic threshold of a network when sampled with different sampling rates and found out that the breadth-first search sampling is most appropriate method to estimate the epidemic threshold among the studied ones.
Vários fenômenos naturais e artificiais compostos de partes interconectadas vem sendo estudados pela teoria de redes complexas. Tal representação permite o estudo de processos dinâmicos que ocorrem em redes complexas, tais como propagação de epidemias e rumores. A evolução destes processos é influenciada pela organização das conexões da rede. O tamanho das redes do mundo real torna a análise da rede inteira computacionalmente proibitiva. Portanto, torna-se necessário representá-la com medidas topológicas ou amostrá-la para reduzir seu tamanho. Além disso, muitas redes são amostras de redes maiores cuja estrutura é difícil de ser capturada e deve ser inferida de amostras. Neste trabalho, ambos os problemas são estudados: a influência da estrutura da rede em processos de propagação e os efeitos da amostragem na estrutura da rede. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que é possível predizer o tamanho da epidemia ou do rumor com base em um modelo de regressão beta com dispersão variável, usando medidas topológicas como regressores. A medida mais influente em ambas as dinâmicas é a informação de busca média, que quantifica a facilidade com que se navega em uma rede. Também é mostrado que a estrutura de uma rede amostrada difere da original e que o tipo de mudança depende do método de amostragem utilizado. Por fim, quatro métodos de amostragem foram aplicados para estudar o comportamento do limiar epidêmico de uma rede quando amostrada com diferentes taxas de amostragem. Os resultados sugerem que a amostragem por busca em largura é a mais adequada para estimar o limiar epidêmico entre os métodos comparados.

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ZHAO, SHUHONG. "STATISTICAL INFERENCE ON BINOMIAL PROPORTIONS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1115834351.

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Liu, Fei. "Statistical inference for banding data." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41508701.

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Fong, Yee-tak Daniel. "Statistical inference on biomedical models /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13456921.

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Peiris, Thelge Buddika. "Constrained Statistical Inference in Regression." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/934.

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Regression analysis constitutes a large portion of the statistical repertoire in applications. In case where such analysis is used for exploratory purposes with no previous knowledge of the structure one would not wish to impose any constraints on the problem. But in many applications we are interested in a simple parametric model to describe the structure of a system with some prior knowledge of the structure. An important example of this occurs when the experimenter has the strong belief that the regression function changes monotonically in some or all of the predictor variables in a region of interest. The analyses needed for statistical inference under such constraints are nonstandard. The specific aim of this study is to introduce a technique which can be used for statistical inferences of a multivariate simple regression with some non-standard constraints.

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FANIZZA, MARCO. "Quantum statistical inference and communication." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/109209.

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This thesis studies the limits on the performances of inference tasks with quantum data and quantum operations. Our results can be divided in two main parts. In the first part, we study how to infer relative properties of sets of quantum states, given a certain amount of copies of the states. We investigate the performance of optimal inference strategies according to several figures of merit which quantifies the precision of the inference. Since we are not interested in obtaining a complete reconstruction of the states, optimal strategies do not require to perform quantum tomography. In particular, we address the following problems: - We evaluate the asymptotic error probabilities of optimal learning machines for quantum state discrimination. Here, a machine receives a number of copies of a pair of unknown states, which can be seen as training data, together with a test system which is initialized in one of the states of the pair with equal probability. The goal is to implement a measurement to discriminate in which state the test system is, minimizing the error probability. We analyze the optimal strategies for a number of different settings, differing on the prior incomplete information on the states available to the agent. - We evaluate the limits on the precision of the estimation of the overlap between two unknown pure states, given N and M copies of each state. We find an asymptotic expansion of a Fisher information associated with the estimation problem, which gives a lower bound on the mean square error of any estimator. We compute the minimum average mean square error for random pure states, and we evaluate the effect of depolarizing noise on qubit states. We compare the performance of the optimal estimation strategy with the performances of other intuitive strategies, such as the swap test and measurements based on estimating the states. - We evaluate how many samples from a collection of N d-dimensional states are necessary to understand with high probability if the collection is made of identical states or they differ more than a threshold according to a motivated closeness measure. The access to copies of the states in the collection is given as follows: each time the agent ask for a copy of the states, the agent receives one of the states with some fixed probability, together with a different label for each state in the collection. We prove that the problem can be solved with O(pNd=2) copies, and that this scaling is optimal up to a constant independent on d;N; . In the second part, we study optimal classical and quantum communication rates for several physically motivated noise models. - The quantum and private capacities of most realistic channels cannot be evaluated from their regularized expressions. We design several degradable extensions for notable channels, obtaining upper bounds on the quantum and private capacities of the original channels. We obtain sufficient conditions for the degradability of flagged extensions of channels which are convex combination of other channels. These sufficient conditions are easy to verify and simplify the construction of degradable extensions. - We consider the problem of transmitting classical information with continuous variable systems and an energy constraint, when it is impossible to maintain a shared reference frame and in presence of losses. At variance with phase-insensitive noise models, we show that, in some regimes, squeezing improves the communication rates with respect to coherent state sources and with respect to sources producing up to two-photon Fock states. We give upper and lower bounds on the optimal coherent state rate and show that using part of the energy to repeatedly restore a phase reference is strictly suboptimal for high energies.

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Jinn, Nicole Mee-Hyaang. "Toward Error-Statistical Principles of Evidence in Statistical Inference." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/48420.

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The context for this research is statistical inference, the process of making predictions or inferences about a population from observation and analyses of a sample. In this context, many researchers want to grasp what inferences can be made that are valid, in the sense of being able to uphold or justify by argument or evidence. Another pressing question among users of statistical methods is: how can spurious relationships be distinguished from genuine ones? Underlying both of these issues is the concept of evidence. In response to these (and similar) questions, two questions I work on in this essay are: (1) what is a genuine principle of evidence? and (2) do error probabilities have more than a long-run role? Concisely, I propose that felicitous genuine principles of evidence should provide concrete guidelines on precisely how to examine error probabilities, with respect to a test's aptitude for unmasking pertinent errors, which leads to establishing sound interpretations of results from statistical techniques. The starting point for my definition of genuine principles of evidence is Allan Birnbaum's confidence concept, an attempt to control misleading interpretations. However, Birnbaum's confidence concept is inadequate for interpreting statistical evidence, because using only pre-data error probabilities would not pick up on a test's ability to detect a discrepancy of interest (e.g., "even if the discrepancy exists" with respect to the actual outcome. Instead, I argue that Deborah Mayo's severity assessment is the most suitable characterization of evidence based on my definition of genuine principles of evidence.
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Zhai, Yongliang. "Stochastic processes, statistical inference and efficient algorithms for phylogenetic inference." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59095.

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Phylogenetic inference aims to reconstruct the evolutionary history of populations or species. With the rapid expansion of genetic data available, statistical methods play an increasingly important role in phylogenetic inference by analyzing genetic variation of observed data collected at current populations or species. In this thesis, we develop new evolutionary models, statistical inference methods and efficient algorithms for reconstructing phylogenetic trees at the level of populations using single nucleotide polymorphism data and at the level of species using multiple sequence alignment data. At the level of populations, we introduce a new inference method to estimate evolutionary distances for any two populations to their most recent common ancestral population using single-nucleotide polymorphism allele frequencies. Our method is based on a new evolutionary model for both drift and fixation. To scale this method to large numbers of populations, we introduce the asymmetric neighbor-joining algorithm, an efficient method for reconstructing rooted bifurcating trees. Asymmetric neighbor-joining provides a scalable rooting method applicable to any non-reversible evolutionary modelling setup. We explore the statistical properties of asymmetric neighbor-joining, and demonstrate its accuracy on synthetic data. We validate our method by reconstructing rooted phylogenetic trees from the Human Genome Diversity Panel data. Our results are obtained without using an outgroup, and are consistent with the prevalent recent single-origin model of human migration. At the level of species, we introduce a continuous time stochastic process, the geometric Poisson indel process, that allows indel rates to vary across sites. We design an efficient algorithm for computing the probability of a given multiple sequence alignment based on our new indel model. We describe a method to construct phylogeny estimates from a fixed alignment using neighbor-joining. Using simulation studies, we show that ignoring indel rate variation may have a detrimental effect on the accuracy of the inferred phylogenies, and that our proposed method can sidestep this issue by inferring latent indel rate categories. We also show that our phylogenetic inference method may be more stable to taxa subsampling in a real data experiment compared to some existing methods that either ignore indels or ignore indel rate variation.
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Veraart, Almut Elisabeth Dorothea. "Volatility estimation and inference in the presence of jumps." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670107.

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Gwet, Jean-Philippe. "Robust statistical inference in survey sampling." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq22168.pdf.

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Guo, H. "Statistical causal inference and propensity analysis." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.599787.

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Statistical causal inference from an observational study often requires adjustment for a possibly multi-dimensional covariate, where there is a need for dimension reduction. Propensity score analysis (Rosenbaum and Rubin 1983) is a popular approach to such reduction. This thesis addresses causal inference within Dawid’s decision-theoretic framework, where studies of “sufficient covariate” and its properties are essential. The role of a propensity variable, obtained from “treatment-sufficient reduction”, is illustrated and examined by a simple normal linear model. As propensity analysis is believed to reduce bias and improve precision, both population-based and sample-based linear regressions have been implemented, with adjustments for the multivariate covariate and for a scalar propensity variable. Theoretical illustrations are then verified by simulation results. In addition, propensity analysis in a non-linear model: logistic regression is also discussed, followed by the investigation of the augmented inverse probability weighted (AIPW) estimator, which is a combination of a response model and a propensity model. It is found that, in the linear regression with homoscedasticity, propensity variable analysis results in exactly the same estimated causal effect as that from multivariate linear regression, for both population and sample. It is claimed that adjusting for an estimated propensity variable yields better precision than the true propensity variable, which is proved to not be universally valid. The AIPW estimator has the property of “Double robustness” and it is possible to improve the precision given that the propensity model is correctly specified.

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屠烈偉 and Lit-wai Tao. "Statistical inference on a mixture model." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977480.

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Mukherjee, Rajarshi. "Statistical Inference for High Dimensional Problems." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11516.

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In this dissertation, we study minimax hypothesis testing in high-dimensional regression against sparse alternatives and minimax estimation of average treatment effect in an semiparametric regression with possibly large number of covariates.

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Nourmohammadi, Mohammad. "Statistical inference with randomized nomination sampling." Elsevier B.V, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30150.

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In this dissertation, we develop several new inference procedures that are based on randomized nomination sampling (RNS). The first problem we consider is that of constructing distribution-free confidence intervals for quantiles for finite populations. The required algorithms for computing coverage probabilities of the proposed confidence intervals are presented. The second problem we address is that of constructing nonparametric confidence intervals for infinite populations. We describe the procedures for constructing confidence intervals and compare the constructed confidence intervals in the RNS setting, both in perfect and imperfect ranking scenario, with their simple random sampling (SRS) counterparts. Recommendations for choosing the design parameters are made to achieve shorter confidence intervals than their SRS counterparts. The third problem we investigate is the construction of tolerance intervals using the RNS technique. We describe the procedures of constructing one- and two-sided RNS tolerance intervals and investigate the sample sizes required to achieve tolerance intervals which contain the determined proportions of the underlying population. We also investigate the efficiency of RNS-based tolerance intervals compared with their corresponding intervals based on SRS. A new method for estimating ranking error probabilities is proposed. The final problem we consider is that of parametric inference based on RNS. We introduce different data types associated with different situation that one might encounter using the RNS design and provide the maximum likelihood (ML) and the method of moments (MM) estimators of the parameters in two classes of distributions; proportional hazard rate (PHR) and proportional reverse hazard rate (PRHR) models.

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Thorpe, Matthew. "Variational methods for geometric statistical inference." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/74241/.

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Estimating multiple geometric shapes such as tracks or surfaces creates significant mathematical challenges particularly in the presence of unknown data association. In particular, problems of this type have two major challenges. The first is typically the object of interest is infinite dimensional whilst data is finite dimensional. As a result the inverse problem is ill-posed without regularization. The second is the data association makes the likelihood function highly oscillatory. The focus of this thesis is on techniques to validate approaches to estimating problems in geometric statistical inference. We use convergence of the large data limit as an indicator of robustness of the methodology. One particular advantage of our approach is that we can prove convergence under modest conditions on the data generating process. This allows one to apply the theory where very little is known about the data. This indicates a robustness in applications to real world problems. The results of this thesis therefore concern the asymptotics for a selection of statistical inference problems. We construct our estimates as the minimizer of an appropriate functional and look at what happens in the large data limit. In each case we will show our estimates converge to a minimizer of a limiting functional. In certain cases we also add rates of convergence. The emphasis is on problems which contain a data association or classification component. More precisely we study a generalized version of the k-means method which is suitable for estimating multiple trajectories from unlabeled data which combines data association with spline smoothing. Another problem considered is a graphical approach to estimating the labeling of data points. Our approach uses minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau functional on a suitably defined graph. In order to study these problems we use variational techniques and in particular I-convergence. This is the natural framework to use for studying sequences of minimization problems. A key advantage of this approach is that it allows us to deal with infinite dimensional and highly oscillatory functionals.

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Chen, Yixin. "Statistical inference for varying coefficient models." Diss., Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17690.

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Department of Statistics
Weixin Yao
This dissertation contains two projects that are related to varying coefficient models. The traditional least squares based kernel estimates of the varying coefficient model will lose some efficiency when the error distribution is not normal. In the first project, we propose a novel adaptive estimation method that can adapt to different error distributions and provide an efficient EM algorithm to implement the proposed estimation. The asymptotic properties of the resulting estimator is established. Both simulation studies and real data examples are used to illustrate the finite sample performance of the new estimation procedure. The numerical results show that the gain of the adaptive procedure over the least squares estimation can be quite substantial for non-Gaussian errors. In the second project, we propose a unified inference for sparse and dense longitudinal data in time-varying coefficient models. The time-varying coefficient model is a special case of the varying coefficient model and is very useful in longitudinal/panel data analysis. A mixed-effects time-varying coefficient model is considered to account for the within subject correlation for longitudinal data. We show that when the kernel smoothing method is used to estimate the smooth functions in the time-varying coefficient model for sparse or dense longitudinal data, the asymptotic results of these two situations are essentially different. Therefore, a subjective choice between the sparse and dense cases may lead to wrong conclusions for statistical inference. In order to solve this problem, we establish a unified self-normalized central limit theorem, based on which a unified inference is proposed without deciding whether the data are sparse or dense. The effectiveness of the proposed unified inference is demonstrated through a simulation study and a real data application.

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Scipione, Catherine Marie. "Statistical inference in nonlinear dynamical systems /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487777170404657.

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Gwet, J. P. (Jean Philippe) Carleton University Dissertation Mathematics and Statistics. "Robust statistical inference in survey sampling." Ottawa, 1997.

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Tao, Lit-wai. "Statistical inference on a mixture model." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13781479.

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Qin, Yingli. "Statistical inference for high-dimensional data." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3389139.

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