Marginal inference for waiting times in multi-stage time-to-event models is complicated by right censoring of observations as well as the prior history of events in the model. In general, complications arise due to the evolution of the censoring...
This study focuses on the variation in structural response to synthetic ground motions derived from the latest attenuation models developed for the Central Eastern United States (CEUS) and used by the USGS to develop the latest edition (2008) of...
Data mining; Lungs--Cancer; Outcome assessment (Medical care)
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and the world, with more than 1.3 million deaths worldwide per year. However, because of a lack of effective tools to diagnose Lung Cancer, more than half of all cases are...
Genes in folate metabolizing pathway are responsible for modulating key enzymes in folate metabolisms necessary for DNA synthesis and repair and influence DNA methylation. Irregularity in DNA methylation may modify tumor phenotype response to...
Nonparametric statistics; Estimation theory; Distribution (Probability theory)
Multistate models are a type of multi-variate survival data which provide a framework for describing a complex system where individuals transition through a series of distinct states. This research focuses on nonparametric inference for general...
Problem children--Education--United States; Alternative schools--United States; School discipline--United States; Juvenile detention--United States; School children--United States--Discipline
Alternative school settings for students who are identified as "disruptive or dangerous" are playing an increasingly prominent role in the world of public education, yet many gaps in the research literature are abound. This dissertation...
Bioinformatics; Breast--Cancer--Treatment; Medical care--Data processing
Statistical models have been the first choice for comparative effectiveness in clinical research. Though effective, these models are limited when the data to be analyzed do not fit the assumed distributions; which is mostly the case when the study...
Portrait of lawyer Bailey Peyton Wootton of Hazard, Kentucky, wearing a sack suit and pencil tie. The photograph is silvering and marked with discolorations from age. Stamped on bottom, front of image: (credit) Scottow (Louisville studio)....
Portrait of lawyer Bailey Peyton Wootton of Hazard, Kentucky, wearing a sack suit and pencil tie. The photograph has been painted on to crop his image and marked with discolorations from age. Stamped on bottom, front of image: (credit) Scottow...
This thesis is a methodological analysis of fire locations in Canadian provinces
from 2001 to 2010. The research presented in this thesis highlights the dominant fire
types for each province. Accurately locating active fires and burned area is...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Flood damage; Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Interiors; Basements; Desks; Disaster relief; Women; University of Louisville--Employees
Center for Health Hazard Preparedness staff cleaning up in the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences after the flood. Four smiling women wearing blue gloves stand in room 013. Photograph was taken in the...
E.A. WOODRUFF, on the Ohio River, passing Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. E.A. WOODRUFF, a side wheel snagboat with an iron hull (226 ft. x 48 ft. x 7.6 ft.) built in Covington, Kentucky, was completed in Pittsburgh...
Louisville General Hospital school of nursing 1962 - Class of 1962 at Louisville General Hospital School of Nursing. Three rows of students in nurse's uniforms and caps. Students in the class of 1962 included the following: Madelyn Joyce Ash...
Louisville General Hospital; University of Louisville--Buildings; Nursing students; Dormitories
Class of 1962 at Louisville General Hospital School of Nursing. Cluster of women on the steps outside Henninger Hall. Text printed on bottom of photograph: And so we find our three years of nursing education behind us and the world, we think, at...
View facing south east down Barbee. The recently constructed Threlkeld Hall can be seen in the distance. The Scene coffee shop, owned by Stuart Jay and Wendell Cherry, is the white building on the corner of First Street and Barbee; there is house...
