Medical decision makers would like to use decision theory to determine optimal treatment strategies for patients, but it can be very difficult to specify loss functions in the medical setting, especially when trying to assign monetary value to health outcomes. These issues led to the development...

This dissertation is aiming to find out the impact of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on insurance companies' survival. The events of interest are bankruptcy and acquisition, which are correlated and censor each other. A statistical survival analysis method is developed first and then applied to the...