Background: Microsimulation models (MSMs), belonging to a class of statistical models that perform simulations at the level of individual units, often persons, have been used …
Background. Rituximab-based immunochemotherapy for Waldenström macroglobulinemia / lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (WM/LPL) showed high response rates in single-arm trials, but comparative data are lacking. We compared overall …
Persistent residential segregation by race/ethnicity has raised many serious social problems in the U.S, and progress towards residential integration during the past decade has been …
In genetics, one fundamental goal is to understand which mutations in the human genome have significant effects on complex traits and diseases. Achieving this goal …
Probabilistic record linkage is a process to identify records in two separate datasets that represent the same entity in the absence of unique identifiers. Bayesian …
The objective of this dissertation is to develop methods for statistical record linkage that are more robust when identifying information is limited or recorded with …
Human teaching involves many forms of non-verbal behavior that unfold over the course of an interaction between a teacher and learner. Such processes facilitate the …
We develop a family of algorithms for statistical inference in models of high dimensional continuous random variables. Our approach builds on existing variational methods, which …