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Exploring The Estimability Of Mark-Recapture Models With Individual, Time-Varying Covariates Using The Scaled Logit Link Function, Jiaqi Mu
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Mark-recapture studies are often used to estimate the survival of individuals in a population and identify factors that affect survival in order to understand how the population might be affected by changing conditions. Factors that vary between individuals and over time, like body mass, present a challenge because they can only be observed when an individual is captured. Several models have been proposed to deal with the missing-covariate problem and commonly impose a logit link function which implies that the survival probability varies between 0 and 1. In this thesis I explore the estimability of four possible models when survival …
Bayesian Analysis For The Intraclass Model And For The Quantile Semiparametric Mixed-Effects Double Regression Models, Duo Zhang
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports
This dissertation consists of three distinct but related research projects. The first two projects focus on objective Bayesian hypothesis testing and estimation for the intraclass correlation coefficient in linear models. The third project deals with Bayesian quantile inference for the semiparametric mixed-effects double regression models. In the first project, we derive the Bayes factors based on the divergence-based priors for testing the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). The hypothesis testing of the ICC is used to test the uncorrelatedness in multilevel modeling, and it has not well been studied from an objective Bayesian perspective. Simulation results show that the two sorts …