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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 ...
An Analysis of Factors Contributing to Wins in the National Hockey League
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This thesis looks at common factors that have the largest impact on winning games in the NHL. Data was collected from regular season games for all teams in the NHL over seven seasons. Logistic and least squares regressions ...
A Visualization Technique for Course Evaluations and Other Likert Scale Data
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Course evaluation is one of the primary ways of collecting feedback from students at NDSU. Since almost every student in every course submits one at the end of the semester, it generates a lot of data. The data is summarized ...
Integrative Data Analysis of Microarray and RNA-seq
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Background: Microarray and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) are two commonly used high-throughput technologies for gene expression profiling for the past decades. For global gene expression studies, both techniques are expensive, ...
Nonparametric Test for the Umbrella Alternative in a Randomized Complete Block and Balanced Incomplete Block Mixed Design
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Nonparametric tests have served as robust alternatives to traditional statistical tests with rigid underlying assumptions. If a researcher expects the treatment effects to follow an umbrella alternative, then the test ...