National forest inventory programs are tasked to produce timely and accurate estimates for a wide range of forest resource variables for a variety of users and applications. Time, cost, and precision constraints cause these programs to seek technological innovations that contribute to...

We consider nested multiple response models which are used extensively in the area of pharmacometrics. Given the conditional nature of such models, differences in predicted responses are a consequence of different assumptions about how the models interact. As such, sequential versus simultaneous...

The aim of this paper is to derive methodology for designing 'time to event' type experiments. In comparison to estimation, design aspects of 'time to event' experiments have received relatively little attention. We show that gains in efficiency of estimators of parameters and use of...

Doctor of Philosophy

The general public considers Fixed-Route Transit (FRT) to be inconvenientwhile Demand-Responsive Transit (DRT) provides much of the desired flexibility with adoor-to-door type of service. However, FRT is typically more cost efficient than DRT todeploy. Therefore, there is an increased interest...

Estimation of flow volumes in computer networks involves the use of data that are either highly aggregated or fairly noisy. We address several conceptual and practical aspects of the use of such data for flow volume estimation in this work. The results presented are often of general statistical...