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Selected Problems for High-Dimensional Data - Quantile and Errors-in-Variables Regressions.
(2016)
This dissertation addresses two problems. First, we study joint quantile regression at multiple quantile levels with high dimensional covariates. Variable selection performed at individual quantile levels may lack stability ...
Implementing Obamacare: Intergovernmental Battles Over the Creation of Health Insurance Exchanges.
(2014)
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) implementation has been marked by deep political division. Health insurance exchanges were a provision expected to elude controversy given their history of Republican support and since states ...
Privacy, Trust, and the Public's Comfort with Sharing Health Data with Third-Party Commercial Companies
(2020)
Healthcare partnerships with third-party commercial companies have been met with reservations from the public about the privacy of health information and concerns about how this data is used. While research points to the ...
Young Families in the Community: An Exploratory Analysis of Child Welfare Contact Among Young Mothers and their Children
(2020)
The dominant frame in the literature regarding pregnancy and parenting among women with a history of child welfare contact is that of teen pregnancy as social crisis. This project reconsiders the issue of pregnancy and ...
Race, Property, and Population Health: Examining Policy-Driven Patterns of Whiteness, Anti-Blackness and Health Inequity in Metropolitan Detroit
(2021)
Trenchant health inequities between Black and White Americans persist in metropolitan areas in the Midwest and Northeast characterized by high levels of residential segregation and municipal fragmentation. The recalcitrance ...
From Sickness to Badness: Michigan HIV Law as a Site of Social Control.
(2014)
In the state of Michigan, people infected with HIV are required by law to disclose their HIV-status to their partners before engaging in sexual contact. Failure to do so is a felony, punishable by up to four years in prison. ...