Jenny Huang | Detecting Changes in the Transmission Rate of a Stochastic Epidemic Model | Advisor: Jason Xu |
Brooke Harmon | Addressing Bias on Duke A&S Course Evaluations | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
Angela Yoon | Reinforcement learning for branching processes with application to respondent-driven sampling | Advisor: Eric Laber |
Yihan Shi | Investigate the impact of Confounding Medical Interventions (CMI) in electronic health records (EHR) data | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
Eden Deng | Utilization and survival outcomes of lobar, segmental, and wedge resection in early-stage NSCLC with tumors ≤ 2 cm—15 years of progress | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
Gaurav Sirdeshmukh | Development and Evaluation of a Gradient-Boosted Approach to Predict 30-day Post-operative Readmission Risk | Advisor: David Dunson |
Evan Dragich | Exploring Data Science Education: From Tutorials to Assessment | Advisor: Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel |
Flora Shi | ESPs: a new cost-efficient sampler for expensive posterior distributions | Advisor: Simon Mak |
Aidan Gildea | Promoting Accessibility in Duke Data Visualization: Creating a Color-Blind Friendly Duke Color Package | Advisor: Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel |
Shreyas Hallur | Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees to evaluate the impact of public policies on healthcare expenditures | Advisor: Alexander Volfovsky |
Naomi Rubin | Evaluating Student Perceptions of Assessment in Quantitative Studies | Advisor: Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel |
Caroline Tang | Analyzing the Evolution of Topics in Political Social Media Discourse | Advisor: Alexander Volfovsky |
Shari Tian | The Atlas of Blood Cancer Genomes (ABCG) Data Visualization and Analysis Module | Advisor: Edwin Iversen, Ph.D. |
Pei Yi Zhuo | Shifting Habitus with Bridging Ties: Causal Estimates of the Effect of the Rate of High-SES Friendship on Extracurricular Participation | Advisor: Fan Li |
Leona Lu | Statistical Analysis on The Devonian Hunsrück Slate: Investigation of Water Current Orientation | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
Meredith Brown | Evaluating Geospatial and Temporal Trends in Payments to Primary Care Physicians in the United States | Advisor: Amy Herring |
Kiwan Hyun | Bayesian and Non-Parametric Risk Metric | Advisor: Simon Mak |
Abbey List | Classification and Engagement Analysis of Misinformation on Social Media | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
Shirley Mathur | Synthetic Data Generation for complex Surveys | Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
Yanchen Ou | Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of US County Level COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
Priya Parkash | European Union Allowance (EUA) Pricing and Twitter Sentiment | Advisor: Surya Tokdar |
Linda Tang | Psychiatric Comorbidities Associated with Reduced Opioid Dependence Treatment Completion | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
Cindy Weng | Tranexamic Acid and Survival Time in Trauma Patient | Advisor: Yue Jiang |
Yunyao Zhu | Algorithmic Harmonization for Four-Part Baroque Chorales | Advisor: Simon Mak |
Steven Herrera Tenorio | The Nuevo South: A Latent Class Analysis on Neighborhood Integration Among Latin American Immigrants in the US South, 2012-2018 | Advisor: Scott Lynch |
Lavonne Hoang | ARM-HD: Adaptive Risk-aware Multi-armed Bandit Framework | Advisor: Simon Mak |
Sherry Hu | Certifiable Adversarial Learning for Cyberphysical Security | Advisor: Simon Mak |
Pin-Chian Lee | Block Truncated compound Confluent Hypergeometric (tCCH) Priors for Bayesian Model Selection | Advisor: Merlise Clyde |
Nathan O'Hara | High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization via Shared Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models | Advisor: Simon Mak |
Malavi Ravindran | Quadratic Proportional Hazards Model with High-Dimensional Correlated Predictors | Advisor: David Dunson |
Daniel Rosen | The Distributive Effects of Carbon Taxes: Evaluating British Columbia's 2008 Program | Advisor: Shawn Santo |
Ethan Shen | Analyzing Pace-of-Play in Soccer Using Spatio-Temporal Event Data | Advisor: Shawn Santo |
Mishek Thapa | Functional Effects of Inherited Blindness and Novel Gene Therapies for Treatment | Advisor: Jason Xu |
Jianyou Andre Wang | There Once Was a Really Bad Poet, It was Automated but you Didn't Know | Advisor: Cynthia Rudin |
Rose Kimberly Graves | Corrupted Data and the Illicit Arms Trade | Advisor: Alex Volfovsky |
Yufeng Melody Jiang | Estimating Cell Probabilities for High-Dimensional and Sparse Multinomial Data Using Proper Scoring Rules | Advisor: David Dunson |
Chiwan Kim | A Black-Scholes-Integrated Gaussian Process Model for American Option Pricing | Advisor: Simon Mak |
Michael Model | Hitting around the shift: Evaluating Batted-Ball Trends across Major League Baseball | Advisor: David Dunson |
Daniel Jay Spottiswood | Algorithmic Trading of an Alternative Cryptocurrency Using Sentiment and Volume Based Predictors | Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
Michael Tan | Investigating Underpricing in Venture-Backed IPOs | Advisor: Shawn Santo |
Trenton Bricken | Learning Fitness Landscapes for Protein Design | Advisor: David Banks |
Ekim Büyük |
Advisor: Colin Rundel |
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Benjamin Feder |
Evaluating Student Creativity and Depth of Data Analysis Projects Based on R Syntax and Packages |
Advisor: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel |
Peter Byron Hase |
Interpretable Image Recognition with Hierarchical Prototypes |
Advisor: Cynthia Rudin |
Daniel Aaron Levine |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
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Robert Benjamin Rappleye |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
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Srinivas Emandi Sunil |
Advisor: Mike West |
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Bihan Jenny Zhuang |
Entity Resolution with an Application to the El Salvadoran Conflict |
Advisor: Rebecca Steorts |
Nathaniel Brown | Bayesian Analysis of Player Performance over Time | Advisor: Mike West |
Chia-Rui Jerry Chang | Modeling Federal Employees Data to Predict Promotion | Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
Andrew H Cooper | Modeling Count Relationships in Restricted Social Networks | Advisor: Alex Volfovsky |
Anne Driscoll | Examining Injustice in Environmental Toxicity | Advisor: David Banks and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel |
Tianlin Duan | Aspect-based Opinion Mining with Yelp Restaurant Reviews | Advisors: David Banks and Cynthia Rudin |
Vivek Sriram | Statistical Analysis of the Human Gut Microbiome | Advisor: Li Ma |
James C Wu | Matrix Based Anomaly Detection Techniques Applied to Network Attacks | Advisor: Peter Hoff |
Sonia Xu | Duke Basketball Passing Networks | Advisor: Alex Volfovsky |
Huijia Yu | Bayesian Reproducibility | Advisor: Merlise Clyde |
Ethan Isaac Levine |
Performance and Application of Matrix Decomposition and Inversion via Probabilistic Algorithms |
Advisor: Colin Rundel |
Xinyi Lucy Lu |
Local Real-Time Forecasting of Ozone Exposure using Temperature Data |
Advisor: Alan Gelfand |
Yueqi Angie Shen |
Explore Geometric Anisotropy for Point-Referenced Spatial Data |
Advisor: Alan Gelfand |
Jiaqin Jaslyn Zhang |
Improved Genomic Selection using Vowpal Wabbit with Random Fourier Features |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
Liaowang Zoey Zou |
Advisor: Mike West |
David Clancy |
Bayesian Regression of Sap Flux in Saplings on Environmental Conditions |
Advisor: Alan Gelfand |
Neel Mehul Desai |
The Animal Model for Censored Traits |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
Yulu Callie Mao |
Modeling Renal Outcomes from Blood Pressure Variability During Non-Cardiac Surgeries |
Advisor: David Dunson |
Katelyn McKenzie |
Gene Set Analyses Under a Bayesian Partial Factor Regression Model |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
Kelvin Niu |
Advisor: Colin Rundel |
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Lavanya Parvathy Sunder |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
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Bridget M Willke |
Forgery Detection in Paintings Using North Carolina Bird Series |
Advisor: David Dunson |
Tristan C Ballard |
Alternative Approaches to Multi-Model Averaging of Climate Simulations |
Advisor: David Banks |
Mao I Hu |
An Importance Sampler for Bayesian Model Averaged Logistic Regression |
Advisor: Edwin Iversen |
Heather B Shapiro-Spetalnick |
Advisor: Merlise Clyde |
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Zenia Zhang |
Simulating Complex Predator-Prey Dynamics Using Agent-Based Models |
Advisor: Cynthia Rudin |
Qi Tracy Dong |
Tree Growth Inference and Imputation Using Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling |
Advisors: Alan Gelfand and Fan Li |
Gabrielle Levac |
Model Selection of Hierarchical Bayes Conjoint Analysis |
Advisor: Merlise Clyde |
Taylor G Pospisil |
Exploring Political Blog Data with Dynamic Topic Modeling |
Advisor: David Banks |
Lucas Spangher |
Emulation, Interpolation, and Classification of a Wind Turbine Fluid Model |
Advisor: James Berger |
Yuci Jenny Chang |
Stochastic Beta Modeling for Asset Pricing by Sector in U.S. Equity Markets |
Advisor: Li Ma |
David Balthazar |
A Statistical Explanation for the Fall in U.S. Automobile Fatalities |
Advisor: David Banks |
Christine H Cheng |
Missing Data Refreshment Samples |
Advisor: Jerry Reiter |
Minyang Jack Fu |
On the Variance-Bias Tradeoff of Propensity Score Weighting |
Advisors: Fan Li and Surya Tokdar |
Daniel Li |
Accounting for Concomitant Variables: Lipid Adjustment for Chemical Exposures |
Advisor: David Dunson |
Samuel Berchuck | Identifying Point Mutations in High-Throughput RNA Sequencing Data | Advisor: Joseph Lucas |
Melanie M Fan | Dynamic Factor Models in International Equity Markets | Advisor: Surya Tokdar |
Ana-Maria K Tenekedjieva | Missing Data in Financial Modeling | Advisors: Michael Brandt and Dalene Stangl |
Meng Amy Xie | Discount-Weighted Bayesian Model Averaging for Portfolio Decisions in Matrix Variate Dynamic Linear Models | Advisor: Mike West |
Xiaoxiao Kate Yuan | Persistence, Leverage Effects, Jumps and Heavy-tails in International Equity Markets | Advisor: Li Ma |
Derrick M Hang |
High-Frequency Bayesian Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Volatility in Finance |
Advisor: Mike West |
Michael J Seo |
Improved MCMC Sampling for Bayesian CART |
Advisor: Scott Schmidler |
Xiaocong Sailor Zhou |
Advisor: Mike West |
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Yiwen Zhu |
Contagion: Extreme Values in International Equity Markets |
Advisor: Rebecca Steorts |
Nihar Chandra Bhupalam |
Statistical Analysis of the Housing Market on a Regional Basis |
Advisor: Mike West |
Craig Robert Reeson |
Financial Time Series Graphical Modelling and Portfolio Analysis |
Advisor: Mike West |