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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 ...
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 ...
Robustness of the Eigenvalue Test for Community Structure
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Networks can take on many different forms, such as the people from the University you attend. Within these networks, community structure may exist. This "community structure" refers to the clustering of nodes by a common ...
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 ...
A Comparative Multiple Simulation Study for Parametric and Nonparametric Methods in the Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
RNA-seq data simulated from a negative binomial distribution, sampled without replacement, or modified from read counts were analyzed to compare differential gene expression analysis methods in terms of false discovery ...
Nonparametric Test for Nondecreasing Order Alternatives in Randomized Complete Block and Balanced Incomplete Block Mixed Design
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Nonparametric tests are used to test hypotheses when the data at hand violate one or more of the assumptions for parametric tests procedures. The test is an ordered alternative (nondecreasing) when there is prior information ...
Factors Associated with Teacher Preparedness and Career Satisfaction in First Year Teachers
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
The objective of this study is to determine the potential association between teaching state, subject taught, perceived preparation given by teacher preparedness programs, and perceived support from administration and ...
Comparison of Proposed K Sample Tests with Dietz's Test for Nondecreasing Ordered Alternatives for Bivariate Normal Data
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
There are many situations in which researchers want to consider a set of response variables simultaneously rather than just one response variable. For instance, a possible example is when a researcher wishes to determine ...
Type I Error Assessment and Power Comparison of ANOVA and Zero-Inflated Methods on Zero-Inflated Data
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Many tests for the analysis of continuous data have the underlying assumption that the data in question follows a normal distribution (ex. ANOVA, regression, etc.). Within certain research topics, it is common to end up ...
Bracketing NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This paper presents a new bracketing method for all 63 games in the NCAA Division 1 basketball tournament. This method, based on the logistic conditional probability models, is self-consistent in terms of constructing ...