Multivariate analysis of spectroscopic data has become more common place in analytical investigations due to several factors, including diode-array spectrometers, computer-assisted data acquisition systems, and chemometric ...

Clinical trial endpoints are traditionally either physical or laboratory responses. However, such endpoints fail to reflect how patients feel or function in their daily activities. Missing data is inevitable in most every ...

This dissertation consists of three selected topics in statistical discriminant analysis: dimension reduction, regularization methods, and imputation methods. In Chapter 2 we first derive a new linear dimension-reduction ...

In a variety of regression applications, measurement problems are unavoidable because infallible measurement tools may be expensive or unavailable. When modeling the relationship between a response variable and covariates, ...