This collection includes theses and dissertations from the Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, in the School of Public Health & Information Sciences. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Causal inference for the effect of continuous treatment on time-to-event outcomes and mediation analysis on health disparities in observational studies., Triparna Poddar
Statistical inference on lung cancer screening using the national lung screening trial data., Farhin Rahman
Bayesian strategies for propensity score estimation in causal inference., Uthpala I. Wanigasekara
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Bayesian methods for graphical models with neighborhood selection., Sagnik Bhadury
Bayesian methodologies for constrained spaces., Siddhesh Kulkarni
Statistical methods for personalized treatment selection and survival data analysis based on observational data with high-dimensional covariates., Don Ramesh Dinendra Sudaraka Tholkage
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Estimating treatment effect on medical cost and examining medical cost trajectory using splines and change point techniques., Indranil Ghosh
Observational studies in group testing and potential applications., Alexander Christopher Noll
Estimating cumulative incidence rate on interval censored data in an illness-death model., Chen Qian
Predictive modeling of clinical outcomes for hospitalized COVID-19 patients utilizing CyTOF and clinical data., Onajia Stubblefield
Bayesian variable selection strategies in longitudinal mixture models and categorical regression problems., Md Nazir Uddin
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Aspects of causal inference., John A. Craycroft
Marginal methods and software for clustered data with cluster- and group-size informativeness., Mary Elizabeth Gregg
Novel Bayesian methodology for the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data., Michael Sekula
Modified-half-normal distribution and different methods to estimate average treatment effect., Jingchao Sun
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Novel Bayesian methodology in multivariate problems., Debamita Kundu
Statistical methods for estimating and testing treatment effect for multiple treatment groups in observational studies., Xiaofang Yan
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Generalized spatiotemporal modeling and causal inference for assessing treatment effects for multiple groups for ordinal outcome., Soutik Ghosal
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Functional data analysis methods for predicting disease status., Sarah Kendrick
Estimation of the three key parameters and the lead time distribution in lung cancer screening., Ruiqi Liu
Sample size calculations and normalization methods for RNA-seq data., Xiaohong Li
Novel statistical approaches for missing values in truncated high-dimensional metabolomics data with a detection threshold., Jasmit SureshKumar Shah
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Propensity score based methods for estimating the treatment effects based on observational studies., Younathan Abdia
Inference for a zero-inflated Conway-Maxwell-Poisson regression for clustered count data., Hyoyoung Choo-Wosoba
Propensity score methods : a simulation and case study involving breast cancer patients., John Craycroft
Expression of genes for peptide/protein hormones and their cognate receptors in breast carcinomas as biomarkers predicting risk of recurrence., Michael Wesley Daniels
Some contributions to nonparametric and semiparametric inference for clustered and multistate data., Sandipan Dutta
A log rank test for clustered data under informative within-cluster group size., Mary Elizabeth Gregg
Semi-parametric methods for personalized treatment selection and multi-state models., Chathura K. Siriwardhana
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Evaluation of liver transplant prioritization methods for hepatocellular carcinoma patients using multistate models., Sarah Katharine Alver
Summary of survival analysis with SAS procedures., Derek Duane Childers 1990-
OptCluster : an R package for determining the optimal clustering algorithm and optimal number of clusters., Michael N. Sekula
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Classification of clinical outcomes using high-throughput and clinical informatics., Alexander Carswell Cambon
Statistical methods for assessing treatment effects for observational studies., Kristopher C. Gardner 1984-
Patient rule induction method for subgroup identification given censored data., Patrick James Trainor
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Novel methods based on regression techniques to analyze multistate models and high-dimensional omics data., Sutirtha Chakraborty
Simulation study for the lead time in cancer screening when human lifetime is a competing risk., Sarah K. Kendrick
Preliminary assessment of a school-based healthy lifestyle program among rural children., Jiying Ling
Compound identification using penalized linear regression., Ruiqi Liu
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Propensity score matching for surgical outcomes with observational data., Robert M. Cannon 1983-
The trends and disparities in the diagnosis of breast cancer by mobile mammography at a comprehensive cancer center., Dianhong Luo
Analysis of microRNA microarray (MM chip) data for aging mice models., Vikranth Shetty
Utility of a goodness-of-fit index for the graded response model with small sample sizes : a Monte Carlo investigation., Christina Ruth Studts 1971-
Application of linear mixed-effects models to crossover designs., Lei Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Mixed-effects models for modeling cardiac functions and treatment effects., Hyejeong Jang
Regression methods for survival and multistate models., Farida Mostajabi
Design and inference in phase II/III clinical trials incorporating monitoring of multiple endpoints., Herman E. Ray
An adaptive ensemble learner function via bagging and rank aggregation with applications to high dimensional data., Jasmit SureshKumar Shah
Determining the most effective way in which to manage congestive heart failure patients., Beatrice Ugiliweneza
Consistency of differentially expressed gene rankings based on subsets of microarray data., Dake Yang
Evaluation of methods for analyzing gene-gene interaction data for survival outcomes., Jie Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
A phase II two stage clinical trial design to handle latent heterogeneity for a binary response., Christopher Noel Barnes
Does Health Hoops Kentucky improve the health of children with asthma?, Yu-Ting Chen 1982-
Placebo effect for low back pain : a meta-analysis., Matthew Aaron Lanham 1982-
An investigation of sliced inverse regression with censored data., Daniel W. Riggs
Comparison of different methods for longitudinal data with missing observations., Lin Sun
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Clustered longitudinal data analysis., Ming Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in maternal and cord blood plasma., Paula G. Radmacher 1951-
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Cost-comparison of prostate cancer screening versus not screening., Bill Fell 1951-
Text mining comorbidity codes in the analysis of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation data., Jennifer Ferrell 1982-
Multiobjective simulation-based methodologies for medical decision making., Ahmed Hassan YoussefAgha
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
The analysis of missing data in public use survey databases : a survey of statistical methods., Ping Xu 1975-
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
A Markov model of secondary prevention of osteoportic hip fractures., Stephanie Tapp
