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Estimating Return on Initial Public Offering Using Mixtures of Regressions
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Financial advisors working in a stock exchange market are often faced with a situation to convince a client of merits of investing in a company that just entered the market. To predict company's return based on its revenue, ...
DT-Optimal Designs for Probit Models in Clinical Trials
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The Optimal designs used in a clinical trial depends on the goals of the study. Common goals are estimating model parameters and choosing between models. D-optimal designs are used when the goal is to estimate the model ...
Modeling Loss Severity With Lognormal Mixtures
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Property and Casualty insurance companies set premium rates by evaluating both loss fre-
quency and loss severity data. Insurance companies often model severity using a well-known single
distribution such as Lognormal ...
Comparative Classification of Prostate Cancer Data using the Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, Dualks and k-Nearest Neighbours
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This paper compares four classifications tools, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random
Forest (RF), DualKS and the k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) that are based on different statistical
learning theories. The dataset used is a ...
Analysis of Bootstrap Techniques for Loss Reserving
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Insurance companies must have an appropriate method of estimating future reserve amounts. These values will directly influence the rates that are charged to the customer. This thesis analyzes stochastic reserving techniques ...
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 ...
Comparing Total Hip Replacement Drug Treatments for Cost and Length of Stay
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The objective of this study is to identify the potential effect anticoagulants, spinal blocks, and antifibrinolytics have on overall cost, length of stay, and re-admission rates for total hip replacement patients. We use ...
Loss Reserving Chain Ladder Methods Applied to a Small Midwestern Insurance Company
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Estimating future losses is integral to setting aside appropriate reserves in the insurance industry. This study analyzes different Chain Ladder reserving methods based on weighted-least square regression that consider ...
Demographic Analysis of Student Evaluations
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Data was collected from North Dakota State University’s student rating of
instructor’s forms during the fall of 2013 and the spring of 2014. This thesis investigates
differences between male and female instructor’s ...
A Multi-trait Mixed-model for Genome-wide Association Study in Barley Population
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Genome-wide association study (GWAS) is a standard approach for studying the genetics of natural variation, typically focusing on association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and traits. For GWAS, if multiple ...