diversification of a portfolio of convex functions of heavy-tailed risks increases the portfolio’s riskiness if expectations of these …

This thesis develops methodology and asymptotic analysis for sparse estimators of the covariance matrix and the inverse … covariance (concentration) matrix in high-dimensional settings. We propose estimators that are invariant to the ordering of the … which combine thresholding with shrinkage applied to the entries of the sample covariance matrix. For both approaches we …

structure and staffing, services, evaluation criteria, marketing strategies, client processes, a budget, incubator evaluation …

first performance period fall into four areas: evaluation of sources and carbon sequestration sinks; development of GIS … on evaluation of sources and sinks is the development of the Big Sky Partnership Carbon Cyberinfrastructure (BSP-CC) and …

& Evaluation, Construction, and ultimately, Operation and Maintenance. In the Klickitat subbasin, we propose to use supplementation …