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A Comparison of Filtering and Normalization Methods in the Statistical Analysis of Gene Expression Experiments
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Both microarray and RNA-seq technologies are powerful tools which are commonly used in differential expression (DE) analysis. Gene expression levels are compared across treatment groups to determine which genes are ...
Exploring Associations between Lifestyles and Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Age Chinese Population
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Nowadays the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) affects many middle-age people in China. MetS is associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Identifying the potential risk factors contribute ...
Development of a Prediction Model for the NCAA Division-I Football Championship Subdivision
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This thesis investigates which in-game team statistics are most significant in determining the outcome in a NCAA Division-I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) game. The data was analyzed using logistic and ordinary ...
Ds-Optimal Design for Model Discrimination in a Probit Model
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
In toxicology studies, dose response functions with a downturn at higher doses are often observed. For such response functions, researchers often want to see if the downturn of the response is signifcant. A probit model ...
Predicting the Outcomes of NCAA Women’s Sports
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Sports competitions provide excellent opportunities for model building and using basic statistical methodology in an interesting way. More attention has been paid to and more research has been conducted pertaining to men’s ...
Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes When the Distribution of Effect Sizes is Asymmetric in Two Class Experiments
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
High-throughput RNA Sequencing (RNA-Seq) has emerged as an innovative and powerful technology for detecting differentially expressed genes (DE) across different conditions. Unlike continuous microarray data, RNA-Seq data ...
A Study of Influential Statistics Associated with Success in the National Football League
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This dissertation considers the most important aspects of success in the National Football League (NFL). Success is defined, for this paper, as winning individual games in the short term, and making the playoffs over the ...
Comparing Several Modeling Methods on NCAA March Madness.
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This year (2015), according to the AGA’s (American Gaming Association) research, nearly about 40 million people filled out about 70 million March Madness brackets (Moyer, 2015). Their objective is to correctly predict the ...
Drug Treatment Comparison for Total Knee Replacement Surgery
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
In this study, we aim to better understand how spinal block, anticoagulant, and antifibrinolytic drug treatments are associated with hospital costs, lengths of stay, prevalence of early readmissions, and prevalence of blood ...
Bracketing the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This paper presents a bracketing method for all the 63 games in NCAA Division I Women's basketball tournament. Least squares models and logistic regression models for Round 1, Round 2 and Rounds 3-6 were developed, to ...