Index Catalog // Emory Theses and Dissertations

1. Unraveling the Impact of Fuzzy Similarity Algorithms on Missing Data Imputation of Heart Bypass Surgery Cohort

Student Name:: Shen, Hong-Jui
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

2. A Bayesian Hierarchical Excess Mortality Model to Assess the Total Impact of COVID-19 on Opioid Users

Student Name:: Peterkin, Cyen
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

3. Modeling and Statistical Analyses Probing the Heterogeneity in Individual Change Points in Longitudinal Cognitive Outcomes

Student Name:: Pan, Yuzhou
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

4. Investigating Missing Data Mechanisms in Substance Abuse Research: Analyzing the Missing-Not-At-Random (MNAR) Pattern of ‘Return to Use’ Data

Student Name:: Tan, Carissa
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Psychology, Behavioral Sciences
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

5. Assessing the Impact of Misclassification in Case-Control Studies: An Examination of Bayesian Credible Intervals

Student Name:: Lu, Jiali
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Epistemology and Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

6. Estimation of Cognitive Ability in Longitudinal IRT using Univariate Composite Likelihood: Application to the Emory Healthy Brain Study

Student Name:: Howard, Nicholas
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

7. Identification of Spatially Variable Genes (SVGs)

Student Name:: Ma,Yanru
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, General, Statistics, and Biology, Genetics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

8. Machine learning for estimating and comparing clinical rules for treating diarrheal illness with antibiotics

Student Name:: Codi, Allison
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

9. Correlation between biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease and the cognitive practice effect

Student Name:: Ruan, Anyue
Date Uploaded:: 04/08/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health, Statistics, and Health Sciences, Aging
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

10. Spatial Associations between Measures of Public Transportation and Diabetic Foot Ulcer Outcomes in the State of Georgia – 2016-2019

Student Name:: Vanasse, Lauren
Date Uploaded:: 04/07/2024
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics, Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

11. Kidney Function: Outdoor vs. Indoor Hispanic Agricultural Workers

Student Name:: Zhuang, Cathy
Date Uploaded:: 04/06/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

12. A Density Ratio Super Learner

Student Name:: Wu, Wencheng
Date Uploaded:: 04/04/2024
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

13. Evaluation of Missing Data and Imputation Methods in Environmental Mixtures Analyses using Weighted Quantile Sum regression and Quantile g-computation

Student Name:: Grieco, Megan
Date Uploaded:: 04/03/2024
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Statistics, and Environmental Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

14. Efficient quantification of pattern similarity between spatial genomics and cell morphology

Student Name:: Yang, Yefeng
Date Uploaded:: 04/02/2024
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

15. Association Study between Diseases and Human Tissue-Specific Epigenomes

Student Name:: Yang, Yixin
Date Uploaded:: 04/14/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Bioinformatics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

16. Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for Estimating Daily PM2.5 Concentrations

Student Name:: Huo, Runing
Date Uploaded:: 04/14/2023
Research Field:: Environmental Health and Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

17. Genome-wide TWAS of brain and blood tissues identifies novel risk genes for Alzheimer’s disease dementia

Student Name:: Guo, Shuyi
Date Uploaded:: 04/13/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

18. Multi-tissue differential expression analyses between proxy case and control samples

Student Name:: Liu, Yutong
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Bioinformatics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

19. Clustering the Liver Measures of Women Living with HIV

Student Name:: Gerig, Logan
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2023
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

20. A benchmark of rare cell type detection methods for single-cell RNA sequencing data

Student Name:: Liu, Jiahui
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics, Biology, Biostatistics, and Biology, Bioinformatics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

21. Bias in Vaccine Effectiveness Estimation Under Changing Testing Probabilities When Using the Test-Negative Design

Student Name:: Shi, Evelyn
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

22. Selection bias and permutation tests in fMRI

Student Name:: Wang, Liangkang
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Neuroscience
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

23. Adjusting for selective attrition in a longitudinal study assessing the rate of cognitive decline

Student Name:: Jia, Yishi
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2023
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

24. Dynamic prediction of survival status in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization using a joint modeling approach

Student Name:: Xia, Derun
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2023
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

25. Evaluating the performance of maximum likelihood estimation in a discriminant function framework to account for non-detectable exposure measurements in matched case-control studies

Student Name:: Sun, Huiqing
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2023
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

26. Associations between short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and emergency department visits for cardiovascular diseases in thirteen U.S. cities

Student Name:: Guan,Kexin
Date Uploaded:: 11/30/2022
Research Field:: Environmental Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

27. Prediction of CBC Hemoglobin Levels for Preterm Infants: Evaluation of Anatomic Regions for Smartphone Photos

Student Name:: Wang, Xinzhu
Date Uploaded:: 04/13/2022
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

28. Time-series Analysis of Seasonal Influenza Activity and Preterm Birth in Atlanta, Georgia from 2010 to 2015

Student Name:: Wang, Tingyu
Date Uploaded:: 04/11/2022
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

29. Bayesian Functional Genome-wide Association Study using Standardized Individual-level and Summary-level GWAS Data

Student Name:: Wang, Lei
Date Uploaded:: 04/11/2022
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics, Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

30. The effect of ambient air pollution on term birth weight and preterm birth in Kansas, 2005-2013

Student Name:: Yoo, Sodahm
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2021
Research Field:: Statistics, Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Environmental Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

31. The Application of Spatial Regression Analysis in Examining the Relationship Between Drinking Water Contaminants and Cancer Incidence Rates in Iowa and Illinois

Student Name:: Munir, Sabah
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2021
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

32. Preterm birth, stillbirth and ambient air pollution in Georgia, 2006 to 2013

Student Name:: Xie, Yue
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2021
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

33. Statistical Inference Concerning Minimal Mortality of Patients with Congenital Heart Defects after Surgical Repair

Student Name:: Mao, Wenhao
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2021
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

34. Transcriptome Sequencing of Peripheral Blood Reveals Distinct Expression Landscapes of COVID-19 and MIS-C Patients

Student Name:: Guo, Nanxi
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2021
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

35. TIGAR-V2 with nonparametric Bayesian eQTL weights estimated from GTEx V8 & Leveraging multiple reference panels to improve TWAS power by ensemble machine learning

Student Name:: Parrish, Randy
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2021
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Genetics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

36. Approaches to Harmonizing Two Functional Assessment Instruments in a Longitudinal Data Set of Aging Adults in the Unites States

Student Name:: Holloway, JaNae
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2021
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

37. Exploration of Normalization Methods on Bulk RNA-seq Data and Single-cell RNA-seq Data

Student Name:: Wang, Yawei
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2021
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

38. Heritability Analysis of individual-level pathway scores in GTEx samples

Student Name:: Dai, Anqi
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2021
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

39. EDClust: An EM-MM hybrid method for cell clustering in population-level single cell RNA sequencing

Student Name:: Wei, Xin
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2021
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics, Biology, Genetics, and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

40. Design Strategies for Studies Using Logistic Regression to Analyze Data on Pooled Samples

Student Name:: Yan, Xiaobo
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2021
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

41. Machine Learning-based Prediction of the Three Drugs Combination Synergy

Student Name:: Zhang, Runyuan
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2021
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

42. Estimating Optimal Inpatient Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes

Student Name:: Zhang, Yuchen
Date Uploaded:: 04/21/2021
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

43. Risk Stratification for Overall Survival among Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients Treated by ADT as the First Line Treatment

Student Name:: Ji,Yuhan
Date Uploaded:: 07/29/2020
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Oncology and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

44. Whole-blood transcriptional signatures of different severity profiles in patients with influenza A H1N1 infection

Student Name:: Gu, Chunhui
Date Uploaded:: 04/27/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

45. Genome-wide DNA methylation profile change in cancer cell lines under stresses

Student Name:: Wang, Qingyu
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics, Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

46. Evaluating Statistical Approaches to Model Multi-Pollutant Mixtures on Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Health Along the Eastern Coast of Florida and South Carolina

Student Name:: Kennerley, Victoria
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2020
Research Field:: Statistics, Environmental Health, and Environmental Studies
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

47. Variable Selection of Neuroimaging Features in Mild Cognitive Impairment

Student Name:: Peng, Lingyi
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2020
Research Field:: Statistics and Health Sciences, Radiology
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

48. Powerful variance-component method for TWAS identifies novel and known risk genes for Alzheimer’s dementia

Student Name:: Tang, Shizhen
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

49. Sub-tissue type eQTL analysis of GTEx data

Student Name:: Yu, Qi
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

50. Genotype prediction based on the gene expression data using Random Forest

Student Name:: Yu, Yanlong
Date Uploaded:: 04/24/2020
Research Field:: Marine Geology and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

51. Improved Algorithm for Independent Component Analysis (ICA) with the Relax and Split Approximation

Student Name:: Fan, Sijian
Date Uploaded:: 04/23/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Neuroscience, Biology, Biostatistics, and Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

52. Hypothesis testing on the number of components in finite mixture models

Student Name:: Zhang, Mingrui
Date Uploaded:: 04/23/2020
Research Field:: Statistics, Biology, Biostatistics, and Mathematics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

53. An Application of Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) to Estimate Daily Concentrations of PM2.5 Components in California

Student Name:: Zhang, Tianyu
Date Uploaded:: 04/22/2020
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

54. Stability of Inference Derived from Machine Learning-based Doubly Robust Estimators of Treatment Effects

Student Name:: Song, Weishan
Date Uploaded:: 04/21/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

55. Machine learning Application in Longitudinal Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Function Prediction

Student Name:: Wang, Xinhang
Date Uploaded:: 04/21/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

56. Estimating and Comparing immune cell infiltration in cancer

Student Name:: Jinjing He
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics and Biology, Cell
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

57. Consensus clustering of subclone structure for multi-sample sequencing data

Student Name:: Zheng, Hanyi
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

58. Comparisons of conditional logistic regression vs. a discriminant function approach in a case-control study where matching is performed

Student Name:: Li, Ruoxing
Date Uploaded:: 04/18/2020
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

59. Association between Lung Dose and Incidence of Pulmonary Toxicity after Total Body Irradiation

Student Name:: Yu, Mengda
Date Uploaded:: 04/18/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

60. Adverse Outcomes Associated with Beers List Medications Following Total Knee Replacement

Student Name:: Liu, Mofei
Date Uploaded:: 04/17/2020
Research Field:: Statistics, Health Sciences, Surgery, and Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

61. Assessment of Clustering of Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma in Metropolitan Atlanta

Student Name:: Lu, Chenhao
Date Uploaded:: 04/17/2020
Research Field:: Geography and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

62. Gene Profile Modeling and Integration for EWOC Phase I Clinical Trial Design While Fully Utilizing All Toxicity Information

Student Name:: Tian, Feng
Date Uploaded:: 04/17/2020
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health, Biology, Biostatistics, and Health Sciences, Oncology
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

63. Estimating associations between high temperature and emergency department visits in six US cities with the use of 1-kilometer temperature products

Student Name:: Thomas, Nikita
Date Uploaded:: 04/17/2020
Research Field:: Environmental Health and Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

64. Gamification on Obese Children’s BMI-derivative Outcomes, Physical Activity, and Sugar Sweetened Beverage Consumption

Student Name:: Chang, Audrey
Date Uploaded:: 04/17/2020
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health, Health Sciences, Nutrition, and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

65. Timing of Neoadjuvant or Adjuvant Chemotherapy to Surgery and Its Impact on Overall Survival among Breast Cancer Patients

Student Name:: Qi, Ruowen
Date Uploaded:: 04/17/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

66. Quantitative trait locus analysis of molecular phenotypes in the GTEx cohort

Student Name:: Zhao, Chen
Date Uploaded:: 04/16/2020
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

67. Investigation of relationship between psychosocial profile and cardiovascular health among African Americans

Student Name:: Jiang, Huige
Date Uploaded:: 04/16/2020
Research Field:: Statistics and Psychology, Social
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

68. Safety And Efficacy of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin for the Treatment of Left Ventricular Thrombus

Student Name:: Liu, Haoran
Date Uploaded:: 04/16/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

69. Inference and Prediction of Atypical Response to Major Depressive Disorder Treatment with C-Reactive Protein and Interleukin-6 Inflammatory Markers

Student Name:: Smith, Madoc
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2020
Research Field:: Statistics, Health Sciences, Mental Health, and Psychology, Clinical
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

70. Exploring Bayesian credible intervals for common epidemiologic effect measures based on cross-sectional data

Student Name:: Shi, Bowen
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

71. Cell-type-specific analysis in Alzheimer’s disease

Student Name:: Li, Can
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2020
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

72. Biomarker-driven Phase 2 study of Nivolumab in Advanced Metastatic NSCLC

Student Name:: Yang, Yilin
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Cell and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

73. Neural Network and Calculator for Predicting Breakthrough Febrile Urinary Tract Infections in Children with Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux

Student Name:: Chen, Jiaoan
Date Uploaded:: 04/14/2020
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, General
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

74. Association between Harmful Algal Blooms and Hospital Admissions along the Indian River Lagoon

Student Name:: Taurone, Alexander
Date Uploaded:: 04/19/2019
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Biology, Ecology
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

75. Integrative Omics Analysis for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Student Name:: Wang, Shihua
Date Uploaded:: 04/19/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics, Biology, Biostatistics, and Biology, Molecular
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

76. Characterizing the Impact of Integrase Strand-Transfer Inhibitors on Metabolic in Women Living with HIV Using Two Modeling Approaches

Student Name:: Angert, Chrisitne
Date Uploaded:: 04/18/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Biology, Virology
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

77. Studying the Association between Overall Survival and Metastatic Sites by Breast Cancer Subtypes Based on National Cancer Database

Student Name:: Guo, Yi
Date Uploaded:: 04/14/2019
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Pathology, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

78. Discovery of Airway Fluid Proteins Associated with Progressive Lung Disease and Damage in Early Childhood Cystic Fibrosis

Student Name:: Chou, Jeffrey
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics, Statistics, and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

79. Cell-type specific alteration of DNA methylation in Alzheimer’s Disease

Student Name:: Yan, Yuchen
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Genetics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

80. Estimating variabilities of toxicological endpoints of concerns to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

Student Name:: Siwakoti, Ram
Date Uploaded:: 04/10/2019
Research Field:: Environmental Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

81. Adaptation of Mixture Cure Model in Estimating Incidence and Latency for Major Depressive Disorder

Student Name:: Huo, Xingyue
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

82. Latent Class Analysis for PTSD Subtype Discovery

Student Name:: Suthaharan, Praveen
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

83. The impact of initialization in optimization of independent components in functional magnetic resonance imaging

Student Name:: Yang, Zixi
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

84. Reducing the sample size of household nutrient monitoring based on the Fortification Assessment Coverage Tool (FACT) Surveys in four African countries

Student Name:: Meng, Yan
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics and Health Sciences, Nutrition
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

85. Traditional versus Competing Risks Approaches in the Modeling of Survival Time

Student Name:: Zhang, Chao
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Statistics, Health Sciences, Public Health, and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

86. A Novel Network Connectivity Measure with Application to Multimodal Brain Imaging Study

Student Name:: Yang, Xinyi
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

87. Optimizing Cluster Survey Designs for Trachomatous Inflammation-Follicular in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Student Name:: Gallini, Julia
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

88. Estimation of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Fish Collected at Sapelo Island, GA: Statistical Methods Using Left Censored Data

Student Name:: Mateja, Allyson
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Environmental Health and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

89. Detecting differentially expressed genes when there is no replicate: a Bayesian inference with historical data-based informative priors

Student Name:: Chen, Wanqi
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

90. The Analysis of 2x2 Crossover Design with Repeated Baseline Measurement within Period

Student Name:: Zhao, Yixuan
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Health Sciences, Public Health and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

91. Assessing Impacts of Strain and Bedding type of Mice on Ambulation in Circadian Rhythm Test by Applying Linear and non-Linear Mixed Model, Poisson Mixed Model and Zero-Inflated Poisson Mixed Model

Student Name:: Xiong, Niya
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

92. Handling Tied Events in Cox Proportional Hazard Regression Modeling

Student Name:: Dong, Huaying
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Statistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

93. Applying Weighted Random Forest Algorithm on Metabolic Pathways Selection

Student Name:: Xiao, Yi
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Bioinformatics and Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

94. Impact of uncommon genomic alterations on outcomes in metastatic colorectal cancer patients

Student Name:: Liang, Tao
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

95. Factors Associated with Anemia among Adolescents

Student Name:: Huang, Weixing
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

96. Cell Type–specific Gene Expression and DNA Methylation Differences in Complex Tissues

Student Name:: Geng, Siyi
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

97. A landscape of treatment options and survivorship for non-small cell lung cancer by Stage and Age.

Student Name:: Di, Mengyu
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

98. Development of Statistical Tool TIGAR for Transcriptome-Integrated Genetic Association Resource

Student Name:: Meng, Xiaoran
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

99. Assessment of diagnostic accuracy after biomarker combination in the same study: The issue of over-optimism and potential solutions

Student Name:: Zhao, Zhiwei
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

100. Effect of Lipid-Lowering Therapy on Epicardial Adipose Tissue Radiodensity in Hyperlipidemic Post-Menopausal Women

Student Name:: Wang, Zeyuan
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2019
Research Field:: Biology, Biostatistics
Department or Specialty:: Biostatistics

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1. Unraveling the Impact of Fuzzy Similarity Algorithms on Missing Data Imputation of Heart Bypass Surgery Cohort

2. A Bayesian Hierarchical Excess Mortality Model to Assess the Total Impact of COVID-19 on Opioid Users

3. Modeling and Statistical Analyses Probing the Heterogeneity in Individual Change Points in Longitudinal Cognitive Outcomes

4. Investigating Missing Data Mechanisms in Substance Abuse Research: Analyzing the Missing-Not-At-Random (MNAR) Pattern of ‘Return to Use’ Data

5. Assessing the Impact of Misclassification in Case-Control Studies: An Examination of Bayesian Credible Intervals

6. Estimation of Cognitive Ability in Longitudinal IRT using Univariate Composite Likelihood: Application to the Emory Healthy Brain Study

7. Identification of Spatially Variable Genes (SVGs)

8. Machine learning for estimating and comparing clinical rules for treating diarrheal illness with antibiotics

9. Correlation between biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease and the cognitive practice effect

10. Spatial Associations between Measures of Public Transportation and Diabetic Foot Ulcer Outcomes in the State of Georgia – 2016-2019

11. Kidney Function: Outdoor vs. Indoor Hispanic Agricultural Workers

12. A Density Ratio Super Learner

13. Evaluation of Missing Data and Imputation Methods in Environmental Mixtures Analyses using Weighted Quantile Sum regression and Quantile g-computation

14. Efficient quantification of pattern similarity between spatial genomics and cell morphology

15. Association Study between Diseases and Human Tissue-Specific Epigenomes

16. Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for Estimating Daily PM2.5 Concentrations

17. Genome-wide TWAS of brain and blood tissues identifies novel risk genes for Alzheimer’s disease dementia

18. Multi-tissue differential expression analyses between proxy case and control samples

19. Clustering the Liver Measures of Women Living with HIV

20. A benchmark of rare cell type detection methods for single-cell RNA sequencing data

21. Bias in Vaccine Effectiveness Estimation Under Changing Testing Probabilities When Using the Test-Negative Design

22. Selection bias and permutation tests in fMRI

23. Adjusting for selective attrition in a longitudinal study assessing the rate of cognitive decline

24. Dynamic prediction of survival status in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization using a joint modeling approach

25. Evaluating the performance of maximum likelihood estimation in a discriminant function framework to account for non-detectable exposure measurements in matched case-control studies

26. Associations between short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and emergency department visits for cardiovascular diseases in thirteen U.S. cities

27. Prediction of CBC Hemoglobin Levels for Preterm Infants: Evaluation of Anatomic Regions for Smartphone Photos

28. Time-series Analysis of Seasonal Influenza Activity and Preterm Birth in Atlanta, Georgia from 2010 to 2015

29. Bayesian Functional Genome-wide Association Study using Standardized Individual-level and Summary-level GWAS Data

30. The effect of ambient air pollution on term birth weight and preterm birth in Kansas, 2005-2013

31. The Application of Spatial Regression Analysis in Examining the Relationship Between Drinking Water Contaminants and Cancer Incidence Rates in Iowa and Illinois

32. Preterm birth, stillbirth and ambient air pollution in Georgia, 2006 to 2013

33. Statistical Inference Concerning Minimal Mortality of Patients with Congenital Heart Defects after Surgical Repair

34. Transcriptome Sequencing of Peripheral Blood Reveals Distinct Expression Landscapes of COVID-19 and MIS-C Patients

35. TIGAR-V2 with nonparametric Bayesian eQTL weights estimated from GTEx V8 & Leveraging multiple reference panels to improve TWAS power by ensemble machine learning

36. Approaches to Harmonizing Two Functional Assessment Instruments in a Longitudinal Data Set of Aging Adults in the Unites States

37. Exploration of Normalization Methods on Bulk RNA-seq Data and Single-cell RNA-seq Data

38. Heritability Analysis of individual-level pathway scores in GTEx samples

39. EDClust: An EM-MM hybrid method for cell clustering in population-level single cell RNA sequencing

40. Design Strategies for Studies Using Logistic Regression to Analyze Data on Pooled Samples

41. Machine Learning-based Prediction of the Three Drugs Combination Synergy

42. Estimating Optimal Inpatient Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes

43. Risk Stratification for Overall Survival among Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients Treated by ADT as the First Line Treatment

44. Whole-blood transcriptional signatures of different severity profiles in patients with influenza A H1N1 infection

45. Genome-wide DNA methylation profile change in cancer cell lines under stresses

46. Evaluating Statistical Approaches to Model Multi-Pollutant Mixtures on Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Health Along the Eastern Coast of Florida and South Carolina

47. Variable Selection of Neuroimaging Features in Mild Cognitive Impairment

48. Powerful variance-component method for TWAS identifies novel and known risk genes for Alzheimer’s dementia

49. Sub-tissue type eQTL analysis of GTEx data

50. Genotype prediction based on the gene expression data using Random Forest

51. Improved Algorithm for Independent Component Analysis (ICA) with the Relax and Split Approximation

52. Hypothesis testing on the number of components in finite mixture models

53. An Application of Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) to Estimate Daily Concentrations of PM2.5 Components in California

54. Stability of Inference Derived from Machine Learning-based Doubly Robust Estimators of Treatment Effects

55. Machine learning Application in Longitudinal Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Function Prediction

56. Estimating and Comparing immune cell infiltration in cancer

57. Consensus clustering of subclone structure for multi-sample sequencing data

58. Comparisons of conditional logistic regression vs. a discriminant function approach in a case-control study where matching is performed

59. Association between Lung Dose and Incidence of Pulmonary Toxicity after Total Body Irradiation

60. Adverse Outcomes Associated with Beers List Medications Following Total Knee Replacement

61. Assessment of Clustering of Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma in Metropolitan Atlanta

62. Gene Profile Modeling and Integration for EWOC Phase I Clinical Trial Design While Fully Utilizing All Toxicity Information

63. Estimating associations between high temperature and emergency department visits in six US cities with the use of 1-kilometer temperature products

64. Gamification on Obese Children’s BMI-derivative Outcomes, Physical Activity, and Sugar Sweetened Beverage Consumption

65. Timing of Neoadjuvant or Adjuvant Chemotherapy to Surgery and Its Impact on Overall Survival among Breast Cancer Patients

66. Quantitative trait locus analysis of molecular phenotypes in the GTEx cohort

67. Investigation of relationship between psychosocial profile and cardiovascular health among African Americans

68. Safety And Efficacy of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin for the Treatment of Left Ventricular Thrombus

69. Inference and Prediction of Atypical Response to Major Depressive Disorder Treatment with C-Reactive Protein and Interleukin-6 Inflammatory Markers

70. Exploring Bayesian credible intervals for common epidemiologic effect measures based on cross-sectional data

71. Cell-type-specific analysis in Alzheimer’s disease

72. Biomarker-driven Phase 2 study of Nivolumab in Advanced Metastatic NSCLC

73. Neural Network and Calculator for Predicting Breakthrough Febrile Urinary Tract Infections in Children with Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux

74. Association between Harmful Algal Blooms and Hospital Admissions along the Indian River Lagoon

75. Integrative Omics Analysis for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

76. Characterizing the Impact of Integrase Strand-Transfer Inhibitors on Metabolic in Women Living with HIV Using Two Modeling Approaches

77. Studying the Association between Overall Survival and Metastatic Sites by Breast Cancer Subtypes Based on National Cancer Database

78. Discovery of Airway Fluid Proteins Associated with Progressive Lung Disease and Damage in Early Childhood Cystic Fibrosis