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Statistical Methods For High Dimensional Data Arising From Large Epidemiological Studies, Hui Xu
Statistical Methods For High Dimensional Data Arising From Large Epidemiological Studies, Hui Xu
Doctoral Dissertations
In this thesis, we propose statistical models for addressing commonly encountered data types and study designs in large epidemiologic investigations aimed at understanding the molecular basis of complex disorders. The motivating applications come from diverse disease areas in Women's Health, including the study of type II diabetes in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), invasive breast cancer in the Nurses' Health Study and the study of the metabolomic underpinnings of cardiovascular disease in the WHI. We have also put significant effort into making the implementation of the proposed methods accessible through freely available, user-friendly software packages in R. The first chapter …
Statistical Methods For Two Problems In Cancer Research: Analysis Of Rna-Seq Data From Archival Samples And Characterization Of Onset Of Multiple Primary Cancers, Jialu Li
Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)
My dissertation is focused on quantitative methodology development and application for two important topics in translational and clinical cancer research.
The first topic was motivated by the challenge of applying transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) to formalin-fixation and paraffin-embedding (FFPE) tumor samples for reliable diagnostic development. We designed a biospecimen study to directly compare gene expression results from different protocols to prepare libraries for RNA-seq from human breast cancer tissues, with randomization to fresh-frozen (FF) or FFPE conditions. To comprehensively evaluate the FFPE RNA-seq data quality for expression profiling, we developed multiple computational methods for assessment, such as the uniformity and continuity …