Date of Award

1-1-2019

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Program

Biostatistics

Content Description

1 online resource (vii, 70 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Igor G. Zurbenko

Committee Members

Recai M. Yucel, Gregory A. DiRienzo, Igor G. Zurbenko

Keywords

Jet stream, Digital filters (Mathematics), Spatial analysis (Statistics), Tornadoes, spatial analysis, tornadoes

Subject Categories

Statistics and Probability

Abstract

Understanding the impact of spatial patterns and processing features on health is a key element in public health and epidemiology fields. This thesis investigates these fundamental tasks using two approaches: high dimensional Kolmogorov-Zurbenko Adaptive smoothing and spatial boundary identification by rolling variation algorithm.

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