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  • On Simpson’s Paradox for Discrete Lifetime Distributions

    Creator:
    Lebowitz, Daniel
    Abstract:
    In probability and statistics, Simpson’s paradox is an apparent paradox in which a trend is present in different groups, but is reversed when the groups are combined. Joel Cohen (1986) has shown that continuously distributed lifetimes can never have a Simpson’s paradox. We investigate the same question for discrete random...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    Actuarial Sci- ence’, Waymire (1988) and references therein. 2 Stochastic, Hazard Rate, and Relative Log

  • Branching random walk and probability problems from physics and biology

    Creator:
    Johnson, Torrey
    Abstract:
    This thesis studies connections between disorder type in tree polymers and the branching random walk and presents an application to swarm site-selection. Chapter two extends results on tree polymers in the infinite volume limit to critical strong disorder. Almost sure (a.s.) convergence in the infinite volume limit is obtained for...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    and Probability Problems from Physics and Biology Abstract approved: Edward C Waymire This thesis

  • Mathematical models of decision processes for dispersing animals

    Creator:
    Brugger, Max F.
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    Each chapter in this expository paper considers a mathematical model of an aspect of animal behavior, and how it affects the patterns of movement across and within a landscape. These models are all directly or indirectly related to questions in either Behavioral Ecology or Landscape Ecology, or both. I first...
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    Capstone Project
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    my advisors and friends, Dr. Yevgeniy Kovchegov and Dr. Edward Waymire. Support for this research