Randomized experiments are a fundamental tool for estimating the causal effects of proposed interventions. While analysis of some experiments can be quite straightforward, other experiments may present difficult analytical ...

NBA coaches and general managers are tasked with building lineups and rosters that maximize their chances of winning. Further, basketball is a team sport where interactions between the players in a lineup can be integral ...

The de-identification of publicly released datasets that contain personal information is necessary to preserve personal privacy. One such de-identification algorithm, k-anonymization, reduces the risk of the re-identification ...

Differential privacy is one recent framework for analyzing and quantifying the amount of privacy lost when data is released. Meanwhile, multiple imputation is an existing Bayesian-inference based technique from statistics ...

Many traditional, powerhouse sports are currently undergoing an analytics revolution. While ultimate is a relatively young sport, it is certainly not immune to this revolution. Most ultimate data presently track basic ...

Accurate measurement of asset return volatility and correlation is an important problem in financial econometrics. The presence of market microstructure noise in high-frequency data complicates such estimations. This study ...

A relatively recent increase in the popularity of evidence-based activism has created a higher demand for statisticians to work on human rights and economic development projects. The statistical challenges of revealing ...

Since the completion of the sequencing of the human genome at the turn of the century, genomics has revolutionized the study of biology and medicine by providing high-throughput and quantitative methods for measuring ...

The goal of this dissertation was to examine the realized value of targeted therapies in routine care and to identify opportunities for improving the return on medical spending for these technologies. Chapter 1 investigated ...

We examine three topics related to experimental design in this dissertation. Two are related to the analysis of experimental data and the other focuses on the design of paired comparison experiments, in this case knockout ...