Senior Thesis Students:

• Christine Ju (Scripps, 2011): “Determining Overrepresentation of Gene Ontology Terms using the Hypergeometric Distribution”; M.S. candidate, Duke, Biostatistics
• Kate Brieger (EA, independent study, 2011): “The Evolution of Statistics in Medicine” ;

• Minsoo Kim (2010): “Statistical Classification”; Ph.D. candidate, U Georgia, Statistics
• Mary Owen (2010): “Tukey’s Biweight Correlation and the Breakdown”
• Mark Simon (2010): “Randomly Generating Computationally Stable Correlation Matrices”

• Patrick Kimes (2009): “Understanding q-values as a More Intuitive Alternative to p-values”; Ph.D. candidate, UNC, Statistics
• Alison Kosel (2009): “Simulating Correlated Multivariate Normal Data”; Ph.D. candidate, U Washington, Biostatistics
• Daniel Scinto (2009): “Stock Ranking and Portfolio Selection: Revising and Developing Z-scores”

• Brianna Pasco (Scripps, Dec 2008): “A Basic Introduction and Comparison of Linear Discriminant Analysis and Support Vector Machines”
• Nick Conway (2008): “A Resistant Measure of Distance in DNA Microarrays”
• Austen Head (2008): “Correlation Correction of Sample Measures from Bivariate Distributions”; Ph.D. candidate, Stanford, Statistics
• Robert Kurtzman (2008): “The Advantages of a Biweight Metric in Clustering Microarray Data”; Ph.D. candidate, UCLA, Economics

• Jeffery Joe Nanda (2007): “Correcting for Bias in Correlation Coefficients Due to Intraindividual Variability”
• Andrea Vijverberg (2007): “Clustering Microarray Data”
• Jonathan Buster Zalkind (2007): “Four Colors is not Enough: Visualizations of Simulated Spatial-Model Elections Under Different Voting Methods”

• Aya Mitani (Pitzer, 2006): “Biweight Correlation as a Measure of Distance between Genes on a Microarray” (abstract, presentation); MPH 2008, Yale, Biostatistics

• Joseph Richards (2005): “Classification of Geologic Units on Ganiki Planitia Quadrangle (V14) Venus Using Statistical Clustering Methods”, Ph.D. 2010, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics
• Alison Wise (2005): “Statistical Analysis of Microarrays to Determine Genetic Changes in Aging Yeast”; Ph.D. candidate, UNC, Biostatistics
• Lee Strassenburg (Dec 2004): “A Statistical Comparison of the Average Waiting Times Between Flares in Lupus Patients”

• Veronica Montes De Oca (2003): “Methods for Evaluating Health Care Claims Data” (an application of Bootstrapping); Ph.D. 2008, University of California, Riverside, Applied Statistics