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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 ... -
Nonparametric Tests for the Non-Decreasing and Alternative Hypotheses for the Incomplete Block and Completely Randomized Mixed Design
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This research study proposes a solution to deal with missing observations which is a common problem in real world datasets. A nonparametric approach is used because of its ease of use relative to the parametric approach ... -
Nonparametric Tests for the Umbrella Alternative in a Mixed Design for a Known Peak
(North Dakota State University, 2020)When an assumption from a parametric test cannot be verified, a nonparametric test provides a simple way of conducting a test on populations. The motivation behind conducting a test of the hypothesis is to examine the ... -
On K-Means Clustering Using Mahalanobis Distance
(North Dakota State University, 2012)A problem that arises quite frequently in statistics is that of identifying groups, or clusters, of data within a population or sample. The most widely used procedure to identify clusters in a set of observations is known ... -
On Lasso Estimation of Linear Mixed Model for High Dimensional Longitudinal Data
(North Dakota State University, 2021)With the advancement of technology in data collection, repeated measurements with high dimensional covariates have become increasingly common. The classical statistics approach for modeling the data of this kind is via the ... -
Optimal Designs for the Hill Model with Three Parameters
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Optimal designs specify design points to use and how to distribute subjects over these design points in the most efficient manner. The Hill model with three parameters is often used to describe sigmoid dose response ... -
Optimizing Prediction Power of RNA-seq on Intrinsic Characteristics in Breast Cancer
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, and accurate and early detection of breast cancer is vital in characterizing the disease. Transcriptomic expression is embedded abundant tumor and cell state ... -
Performance of Permutation Tests Using Simulated Genetic Data
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Disease statuses and biological conditions are known to be greatly impacted by differences in gene expression levels. A common challenge in RNA-seq data analysis is to identify genes whose mean expression levels change ... -
A Pilot Study of Module Interconnectedness
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Complexity plays an important role in understanding and working with a program, and has been measured in many different ways for software applications. The use of statistical analysis is one of the ways to predict the ... -
Power Analysis to Determine the Importance of Covariance Structure Choice in Mixed Model Repeated Measures Anova
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Repeated measures experiments involve multiple subjects with measurements taken on each subject over time. We used SAS to conduct a simulation study to see how different methods of analysis perform under various simulation ... -
Predicting Outcomes of NBA Basketball Games
(North Dakota State University, 2016)A stratified random sample of 144 NBA basketball games was taken over a three-year period, between 2008 and 2011. Models were developed to predict point spread and to estimate the probability of a specific team winning ... -
Predicting Recessions in the U.S. with Yield Curve Spread
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This paper proposes a hidden Markov model for the signal of U.S. recessions. The model uses the spread of interest rate between 10-year Treasury bond and 3-month Treasury bill, together with other financial indicators which ... -
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 ... -
Prediction of the World Cup Soccer Winner: Using Two Statistical Methods
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Soccer is considered the most popular sport on earth and applying statistical models to analyze small soccer data has been of a keen interest to modern researchers. Statistical modeling of soccer data also provides guidance ... -
Profile Matching in Observational Studies With Multilevel Data
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Matching is a popular method to use with observational data to replicate desired features of a randomized control trial. A common problem encountered in observational studies is the lack of common support or the limited ... -
Propensity Score and Survival Analysis for Lung Cancer
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Propensity scores were used to assess covariate balance between black and white groups in each lung cancer stage of a large data set. Pairwise log rank tests were used to test the equality of survival distribution for ... -
Proposed Methods for the Nondecreasing Order-Restricted Alternative in a Mixed Design
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Nonparametric statistics are commonly used in the field of statistics due to their robustness when the underlying assumptions are violated for the usual parametric statistics. In this dissertation, we proposed eight ... -
A Proposed Nonparametric Test for Simple Tree Alternative in a BIBD Design
(North Dakota State University, 2011)A nonparametric test is proposed to test for the simple tree alternative in a Balanced Incomplete Block Design (BIBD). The details of the test statistic when the null hypothesis is true are given. The paper also introduces ... -
Proposed Nonparametric Tests for Equality of Location and Scale Against Ordered Alternatives
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Ordered alternatives tests are sometimes used in life-testing experiments and drug-screening studies. An ordered alternative test is sometimes used to gain power if the researcher thinks parameters will be ordered in a ... -
Proposed Nonparametric Tests for the Simple Tree Alternative for Location and Scale Testing
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Location-scale problems arise in many cases, such as, bioinformatics, climate dynamics, finance and medicine (Marozzi, 2013). This research focuses on developing tests to determine whether one or more treatment effects ...