Former Biostatistics M.S. and Ph.D. students

• Zhao, Yanli -------- M.S. July 2001
  Title: Investigating the use of the variogram for lattice data

• Li, Ruifeng --------- M.S. November 2001
  Title: A comparison of multiple regression to two latent variable techniques for estimation and prediction

• Stromberg, Kurt ------ M.S. May 2002
  Title: Defining alcoholism treatment episodes from mental health care utilization records

• Wang, Fujun -------- Ph.D. May 2002
  Title: Modeling and predicting common factors in multivariate spatial health-statistics data

• Dai, Yu (James) ------ M.S. June 2002
  Title: Application of GEE to a longitudinal Poisson study on alcoholism treatment

• Huang, Jinzhou ------ M.S. December 2002
  Title: Contributing Factors Of Determining Multiple And Underlying Cause Of Death On Minnesota Death Certificates, 1990-1998

• Chartier, Carole ------ M.S. April 2003
  Title: A comparison of intraclass correlation coefficients estimators for binary outcomes

• Guo, Jia ----------- M.S. July 2003
  Title: A model for a latent factor predicting a latent outcome with application to eating disorder risk and body satisfaction

• Cui, Yue ----------- M.S. April 2004
  Title: Investigating Poisson regression for very small counts with application to mortality data analysis

• Song, Yunjie ----------- M.S. April 2004
  Title: Administrative costs among health maintenance organizations

• Cui, Wei ----------- M.S. August 2004
  Title: Predicting perineal dermatitis in nursing homes: A structural equation modeling approach

• Chen, Menghui ----------- M.S. October 2004
  Title: Zero-Inflated Poisson Models with an Application to Medical Care Utilization Data

• Liu, Xuan ------------ Ph.D. November 2005
  Title: Latent variable models for multivariate spatial data

• Guo, Jia ------------ Ph.D. October 2006
  Title: Biostatistical models with latent variables

• Ge, Hong ------------ M.S. February 2007
  Title: Longitudinal and survival analysis of the impact on quality of life in Valsartan heart failure patients

• Tian, Hua --------- M.S. April 2007
  Title: Applied Statistical Analysis on Rat Tumor Data

• Li, Ran ---------M.S. August 2007
  Title: Multiple indicator HMM with application to medical utilization

• Zhou, Xinyu --------- M.S. December 2007
  Title: Employee Behavior Study -- A Two-level Latent Class Approach