This page will be updated approximately every semester to provide a sampling of some of the theses and special projects undertaken by our graduate students.
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Name |
Semester |
Advisor |
Title |
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Courtney Vahle |
Summer 2019 |
Dr. Cheryl Eames |
A Hypothetical Learning Trajectory for Prime Decomposition |
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Kelli Mowery-Davis |
Summer 2019 |
Dr. Ed Sewell |
A New Bidirectional Heuristic Search Algorithm: Dynamically Improved Bounds Bidirectional Search (DIBBS) |
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Bradley Gruen |
Summer 2019 |
Dr. Junvie Pailden |
Propensity Score Matching in Observational Studies |
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Claire Schaal |
Summer 2019 |
Dr. Cheryl Eames |
Evaluating a Learning Progression for Finite-to-Finite Functions |
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Jennifer Stock |
Summer 2019 |
Dr. Jim Parish |
Invariant Class Forms of Hexagons: Research to Support a Taxonomy of Hexagons |
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Kelsey Cutler |
Spring 2019 |
Dr. Jun Liu |
Comparing Methods for Improving FISTA Convergence |
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Allan Juma |
Fall 2018 |
Dr. Song Foh Chew |
Community Detection Using Combined Algorithms and Structure Strength Measurement |
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Huiqing Zhou |
Fall 2018 |
Dr. G. Stacey Staples |
Elementary Functions and Their Inverses on Zeons |
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Justin Roundcount |
Fall 2018 |
Dr. Junvie Pailden |
K-groups: an alternative to K-means clustering |
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Ricky Hua |
Fall 2018 |
Dr. Ma Zenia Agustin |
Simulation Comparison of Survival Functions with Right Censored Data |
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Amanda Davis |
Summer 2018 |
Dr. G. Stacey Staples |
Boolean Satisfiability, Graph Problems, and Zeons |
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Yasaman Panjebandpour |
Summer 2018 |
Dr. Marcus Agustin |
Simulation Study of System Reliability Under Imperfect Debugging |
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Erin Haake |
Summer 2018 |
Dr. G. Stacey Staples |
Zeon Solutions of Quadratic Equations |
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Eric Grubbs |
Summer 2018 |
Dr. Marcus Agustin |
Estimating System Reliability Using Maximum Likelihood Estimators and Bootstrap Confidence Intervals |
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Melissa Darch |
Spring 2018 |
Dr. James Parish |
Characterizing Classes of Quadrilaterals and Hexagons |
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Simon Ellis |
Spring 2018 |
Dr. Myung-Sin Song |
A Comparison of Fourier Analysis and Multiresolution Analysis |
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Theresa Lindell |
Spring 2018 |
Dr. G. Stacey Staples |
Norm Inequalities in Zeon Algebras |
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Kip Brown |
Spring 2018 |
Dr. Junvie Pailden |
A Comparison of Causal Inference Estimators in Observational Studies |
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Jon Yoch |
Fall 2017 |
Dr. Zenia Agustin |
Logistic Regression with Application to Starting Pitching Outcomes in Major League Baseball |
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Maduka Balasooriya |
Summer 2017 |
Dr. Song Foh Chew, Dr. Sinan Onal |
Applications of Operation Research Techniques for Detection of Anatomical Structures in Medical Images |
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Wen Lian |
Summer 2017 |
Dr. Andrew Neath |
An Investigation of Type S Error Probabilities and Multiple Comparisons under a Bayesian Framework |
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Mehrdad Alvandipour |
Summer 2017 |
Dr. Gregory Budzban |
Cellular Automata, Game of Life and Chance |
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Alex Weygandt |
Spring 2017 |
Dr. G. Stacey Staples |
Extension of Elementary Functions to Zeons |
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Patrick Gu |
Spring 2017 |
Dr. Myung-Sin Song |
Introduction to Wavelets with Applications in Image Processing |
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Michelle Berry |
Fall 2016 |
Dr. Andrew Neath |
Empirical Bayes and the James-Stein Estimator |
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Mahya Aghaee |
Summer 2016 |
Dr. Urszula Ledzewicz |
Analysis of Dynamics and Optimal Control for an SIR Epidemiological Model with Time-varying Populations |
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Angela (Yingying) Lu |
Summer 2016 |
Dr. Song Foh Chew |
Community Detection in Graphs Using Genetic Algorithms and Structure Strength Measurement |
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Timothy Young |
Summer 2016 |
Dr. Zenia Agustin |
Estimating Stock Price Volatility for Application in the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formula |
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Jean M. Campbell |
Summer 2016 |
Dr. Andrew Neath |
Empirical Bayes Estimation of the False Discovery Rate in Large Scale Testing Problems |
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Andrea Jenkins |
Summer 2016 |
Dr. Edward Sewell |
An Explanation and Exploration of A Branch, Bound, and Remember Algorithm for the Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem |
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Michael Lanier |
Summer 2016 |
Dr. Andrew Neath |
The Use of Likelihood Inference for Quantifying Statistical Evidence |
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Cazareo Rodriquez |
Summer 2016 |
Dr. Andy Bartlett |
Detecting Change Points in Climatic Data Using Extreme Values |
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Lisa Dollar |
Summer 2016 |
Dr. G. Stacey Staples |
Square and kth Root Properties of Zeons |
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Tiffany Stellhorn |
Summer 2016 |
Dr. G. Stacey Staples |
An Extension of Nilpotent Adjacency Matrices for Graph Coloring |
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Sanduni Palliyage |
Spring 2016 |
Dr. Marcus Agustin |
Optimal burn-in time of a software |
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Katie Kizzire |
Summer 2015 |
Dr. Junvie Pailden |
Shrinkage Procedures in Linear Regression |
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Brent Naritoku |
Summer 2015 |
Dr. Song Foh Chew |
Queuing Systems with Variable-Size Services |
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Rhonda Johnson |
Summer 2015 |
Dr. Andrew Neath |
The Necessity of Prior Information in Statistical Hypothesis Testing |
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Chris Glynn |
Spring 2015 |
Dr. Andrew Neath |
A Summary of Meta-Analysis Models |
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Georgia Mueller |
Spring 2015 |
Dr. Steve Rigdon |
Power for Weibull Regression When the Shape Parameter is Not Constant |
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Kristina Thompson |
Fall 2014 |
Dr. Marcus Agustin Dr. Zenia Agustin |
An Introduction to the Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Applications to Survival Analysis |
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Thomas Brent James |
Fall 2014 |
Dr. Marcus Agustin |
Estimating Component Reliability For Masked Failure Data |
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Darren Olsen |
Fall 2014 |
Dr. Song Foh Chew |
Detecting Communities in Graphs Using a Structural Measure and Shaping Algorithm |
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Ryan Rzeszutko |
Fall 2014 |
Dr. Song Foh Chew |
Queueing Systems with Flexible Queue Capacity and Servers |
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Nicole Titus |
Fall 2014 |
Dr. Zenia Agustin |
An Overview of Disease Cluster Detection with Applications in Illinois |
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Ben Bishop |
Summer 2014 |
Dr. Song Foh Chew |
Complex Networks Generated Over Time |
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David Wylie |
Summer 2014 |
Dr. G. Stacey Staples |
Factoring Blades and Versors in Euclidean Clifford Algebras |
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Adam Armstrong |
Spring 2014 |
Dr. Zenia Agustin |
Using Multi-State Models for Life Contingencies |
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Stacie Banjavcic |
Spring 2014 |
Dr. Edward Sewell |
Bidirectional Shortest Path with New Heuristic |
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Thomas Edwards |
Spring 2014 |
Dr. Song Foh Chew |
Methods for Subset Sum Problems with an Item Count Constraint Inspired by Test Construction Problems, with Possible Extensions into Goal Programming |
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Steven Atteberry |
Fall 2013 |
Dr. Marcus Agustin |
A Stopping Time for Testing a Series System |
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Casey Babb |
Fall 2013 |
Dr. Song Foh Chew |
Using Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Graph Theory to Measure Complexity in a Network of Brain Structures in Human Subjects with Major Depressive Disorder |
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Sarah Burkhardt |
Fall 2013 |
Dr. Andrew Neath |
A Comparison of Item Response Models for Nonignorable Noresponse |
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Janean Overbey |
Fall 2013 |
Dr. Song Foh Chew |
Queuing Theory with Flexible Servers |
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Katherine Schwent |
Summer 2013 |
Dr. Cindy Traub |
Perimeter-Halving the One-by-Two Rectangle |
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Shuai Hao |
Summer 2013 |
Dr. Adam Weyhaupt |
An Introduction to Discrete Minimal Surface via the Enneper Surface |
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Ehsan Jahanpour |
Summer 2013 |
Dr. Andrew Neath |
A Study of Frequentist Error Probabilities From a Bayesian Perspective |
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Kelly Ayres |
Spring 2013 |
Dr. Andrew Neath |
Bayesian and Frequentist Hypothesis Testing in Analysis of Variance |
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Viliana Rizova |
Spring 2013 |
Dr. Steve Rigdon |
Kalman Filter Model for Election Prediction |
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Seongpil Hon |
Spring 2013 |
Dr. Song Foh Chew |
Queueing Theory-Based Terror Plots Detection |
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Lauren Cleeton |
Spring 2013 |
Dr. Andrew Neath |
A Decision Theoretic comparison of the Boyesian and Frequentist Approaches to Estimation |
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Jessica Gerwitz |
Spring 2013 |
Dr. Marcus Agustin |
Determining Record Scanning Profitability for the National Personnel Records Center Using a Pure Birth Process |
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Tiwatayo Fadero |
Fall 2012 |
Dr. Song Foh Chew |
Continuous Service M/M/1 Queuing Systems |
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Matt Gillespie |
Fall 2012 |
Dr. Zenia Agustin |
Modeling the Term Structure of Interest Rates Using Possibilistic Fuzzy Regression |
