This dissertation includes three components. Component 1 provides an estima-tion procedure for circadian parameters in cyanobacteria. Component 2 explores therelationship between baseline and amplitude by model selection under the frameworkof smoothing spline. Component 3 investigates properties...

Semiparametric models play important roles in the field of biological statistics. In this dissertation, two types of semiparametic models are to be studied. One is the partially linear model, where the parametric part is a linear function. We are to investigate the two common estimation methods...

In the last ten years, there has been increasing interest and activity in the general area of partially linear regression smoothing in statistics. Many methods and techniques have been proposed and studied. This monograph hopes to bring an up-to-date presentation of the state of the art of...

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester. School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dept. of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, 2009.