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Statistical Modelling, Optimal Strategies And Decisions In Two-Period Economies, Jiang Wu
Statistical Modelling, Optimal Strategies And Decisions In Two-Period Economies, Jiang Wu
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Motivated by some real problems, our thesis puts forward two general two-period pricing models and explore optimal buying and selling strategies in two states of the two-period decision, when buyer/seller's decisions in the two periods are uncertain: commodity valuations may or may not be independent, may or may not follow the same distribution, be heavily or just lightly influenced by exogenous economic conditions, and so on. For both the example of buying laptops and the example of selling houses, the connections between each example and the two-envelope paradox encourage us to explore optimal strategies based on the works of McDonnell …
Data-Adaptive Kernel Support Vector Machine, Xin Liu
Data-Adaptive Kernel Support Vector Machine, Xin Liu
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
In this thesis, we propose the data-adaptive kernel Support Vector Machine (SVM), a new method with a data-driven scaling kernel function based on real data sets. This two-stage approach of kernel function scaling can enhance the accuracy of a support vector machine, especially when the data are imbalanced. Followed by the standard SVM procedure in the first stage, the proposed method locally adapts the kernel function to data locations based on the skewness of the class outcomes. In the second stage, the decision rule is constructed with the data-adaptive kernel function and is used as the classifier. This process enlarges …
On The Estimation Of Penetrance In The Presence Of Competing Risks With Family Data, Daniel Prawira
On The Estimation Of Penetrance In The Presence Of Competing Risks With Family Data, Daniel Prawira
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In family studies, we are interested in estimating the penetrance function of the event of interest in the presence of competing risks. Failure to account for competing risks may lead to bias in the estimation of the penetrance function. In this thesis, three statistical challenges are addressed: clustering, missing data, and competing risks. We proposed the cause-specific model with shared frailty and ascertainment correction to account for clustering and competing risks along with ascertainment of families into study. Multiple imputation is used to account for missing data. The simulation study showed good performance of our proposed model in estimating the …
Annuity Product Valuation And Risk Measurement Under Correlated Financial And Longevity Risks, Soohong Park
Annuity Product Valuation And Risk Measurement Under Correlated Financial And Longevity Risks, Soohong Park
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Longevity risk is a non-diversifiable risk and regarded as a pressing socio-economic challenge of the century. Its accurate assessment and quantification is therefore critical to enable pension-fund companies provide sustainable old-age security and maintain a resilient global insurance market. Fluctuations and a decreasing trend in mortality rates, which give rise to longevity risk, as well as the uncertainty in interest-rate dynamics constitute the two fundamental determinants in pricing and risk management of longevity-dependent products. We also note that historical data reveal some evidence of strong correlation between mortality and interest rates and must be taken into account when modelling their …
Classification With Large Sparse Datasets: Convergence Analysis And Scalable Algorithms, Xiang Li
Classification With Large Sparse Datasets: Convergence Analysis And Scalable Algorithms, Xiang Li
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Large and sparse datasets, such as user ratings over a large collection of items, are common in the big data era. Many applications need to classify the users or items based on the high-dimensional and sparse data vectors, e.g., to predict the profitability of a product or the age group of a user, etc. Linear classifiers are popular choices for classifying such datasets because of their efficiency. In order to classify the large sparse data more effectively, the following important questions need to be answered.
1. Sparse data and convergence behavior. How different properties of a dataset, such as …