Recent Graduate Student Projects

Numbers following the title indicate Brock Reports in Mathematics and Statistics numbers.

2010

• Chi Ho Cheung,   Approximate Confidence Region for Parameter of Generalized Pareto Distribution BRMS 100823-2 (advisors J. Vrbik and M. L. Huang)
• Val Andrei Fajardo, On Confidence Regions for High Quantiles of a Heavy Tailed Distribution BRMS 100823-1 (advisor M. L. Huang)
• Jason Lizotte,   On the height of algebraic numbers BRMS 100816-1 (advisor: Omar Kihel)
• Jessica Van Druten,  A Parametric Family of Dihedral Extensions of Degree 12 over Q and an independent system of Units BRMS  100625-1 (advisor: Omar Kihel)
• Xiaoli Shang, Optimal Designs for Fourier Regression Models BRMS 100125-1 (advisor: Xiaojian Xu)
• Bryan Christopher, Bounding Convergence Rates of Stochastically Monotone Markov Chains and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms BRMS 100113-1 (advisor: John Yuen)
• Dmitry Tashnev, On Quantile Regression BRMS 100111-1 (advisor: M. L. Huang and Xiaojian Xu) 

2009

• Holly Falsetti, On Tail Index Estimation of Heavy-Tailed Distributions BRMS 090921-1 (advisor:  Mei Ling Huang)
• Kylie Maheu, Confidence Regions for Parameters of the Gamma Distribution BRMS 090917-01 (advisor: Jan Vrbik)
• Theresa Conroy, On Estimation of Extreme Values in Survival Analysis BRMS 090914-01 (advisor: Mei Ling Huang)
• Yilan Tan, Groups with Small Squaring Property  BRMS 090807-01 (advisor: Yuanlin Li)
• Yiming Zhang, Higher order symmetris and recursion operators of super-symmetric PDE System BRMS 090706-01 (advisor: Thomas Wolf)
• Lin Zhao, Robust Regression Designs for Wavelet Approximation Models BRMS 090107-01 (advisor:  Xiaojian Xu)

2008

• Jennifer Vigliotta Edgeworth Expansion Applied to ML estimators of Parameters of the Cauchy Distribution BRMS 080810-01 (advisor: J. Vrbik)
• M. Krzeminski Linguistic Applications of Random Graph Models BRMS 080827-01 (advisor: H. Fuks)
• Steven Graham Finite Element Approximations to Rearrangements BRMS 080828-01 (advisor: R. Kerman)
• Scott Greenhalgh Maple Animations of Nonlinear Waves & Computer Algebra Computation of Fluid Flow Conservation Laws BRMS 080901-01(advisor: S. Anco)
• Miao Zhang On Confidence Intervals of a Quantile BRMS 080904-01 (advisor: Mei-Ling Huang and John Yuen)
• Zheng Zhang On High Quantile Estimation for Heavy Tailed Distributions BRMS 080905-01 (advisor: Mei-Ling Huang)

2007

• Jacqueline L. Fisher Estimation of Survival and Hazard Functions BRMS 071010-01 (advisor: Mei-Ling Huang)
• Ke Zhao, On Inverse Power Law and Risk Analysis BRMS 071010-02 (advisor: Mei-Ling Huang)
• Luo Wang Sampling distributions of estimators related to Markov model BRMS 071023-01 (advisor: Jan Vrbik)