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Joint Mean and Covariance Modeling of Matrix-Variate Data
(2018)
This dissertation addresses theory, methodology, and applications for joint mean and covariance estimation with matrix-variate data. Chapters 2 and 3 consider joint mean and covariance estimation in the Kronecker product ...
Severe Illness Associated With Respiratory Viruses: Burden and Temporal Dynamics
(2020)
Acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI) are a substantial source of global morbidity and mortality, particularly among young children. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza are consistently observed to ...
Social Preferences and the Willingness to Pay for Preventative Health Care: Evidence from Field Experiments
(2017)
This dissertation explores behavioral incentives generated by individuals making choices in peer group settings in order to assess whether these incentives can be harnessed towards improving people’s willingness to invest ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Consumerism in Health Policy
(2019)
Consumerism, the notion of giving people the ability and responsibility to make choices about cost and quality, is an increasingly popular strategy to contain health spending. Yet we lack robust knowledge about how recent ...
Case studies in bias reduction and inference for electronic health record data with selection bias and phenotype misclassification
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-12-10)