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Optimization In Non-Parametric Survival Analysis And Climate Change Modeling, Iuliana Teodorescu
Optimization In Non-Parametric Survival Analysis And Climate Change Modeling, Iuliana Teodorescu
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Many of the open problems of current interest in probability and statistics involve complicated data
sets that do not satisfy the strong assumptions of being independent and identically distributed. Often,
the samples are known only empirically, and making assumptions about underlying parametric
distributions is not warranted by the insufficient information available. Under such circumstances,
the usual Fisher or parametric Bayes approaches cannot be used to model the data or make predictions.
However, this situation is quite often encountered in some of the main challenges facing statistical,
data-driven studies of climate change, clinical studies, or financial markets, to name a few. …