The phenomenon of overdispersion arises when categorical or count data exhibit variability larger than expected. Multinomial data commonly demonstrate this phenomenon when the counts arise from correlated or cluster observations. There are several ways of analyzing overdispersed multinomial...

In public health studies, it is common for exposure status to be misclassified. In this dissertation, statistical models to adjust for misclassification will be proposed to address four related questions of interest.The first question focuses on exploring the association between a disease and...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, 2009.

Die zunehmende globale Verteilung der Produktion stellt die bestehenden Planungsprozesse international agierender Unternehmen vor große Herausforderungen. Aufgrund der zunehmenden Komplexität der unternehmensinternen Leistungserbringung rückt die Planung des unternehmensinternen...