Suggestions for Term Paper or Project Topics at the dnd of STAT 770, Spr 2024
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• CAUSAL INFERENCE / relation to misspecified models for missing data

• MISSING DATA: dependent censoring IN SURVIVAL Analaysis  
          OR  NMAR (Not Missing at Random) data in SAMPLING

• LATENT CLASS MODELS  -- This is a very broad and extensive topic, within which many more 
          restricted papers and applications can be found.

• Statistical computing --- mixed models for multicategory logistic regression -- this topic
          is introduced (with EM and Bayes ideas for computing) in the course. Heading (9) 
          in the Handouts section of the web-page mentions relevant R-packages, but so far
          R does not handle this topic satisfactorily.

• Discrete Data Time Series / Copula or Autoregression techniques, following
   one of the papers of Konstantinos Fokianos (former student of Prof. Benjamin Kedem):

    Konstantinos Fokianos, Dag Tjøstheim (2011), "Log-linear Poisson autoregression",
      Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Volume 102, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 563-578,
      ISSN 0047-259X,     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2010.11.002.

• Discrete-Data Meta-Analysis  (related to "Small Area Estimation"): there is a Wiley book,
   "Statistical Meta-Analysis with Applications", by J. Hartung, G. Knapp and B.K. Sinha ,
   within which Chapter 9 gives an introduction to this topic.

• Item-Response Theory Models --- topic in Educational Statistics for 2-way tables 
         cross-classified and parameterized according to Test-Question difficulty 
         and Test-taker abilities. This is essentially the idea suggested in 
         project topic heading (d) on the web-page.