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Better to teach than to deter if you cannot do both: Investigating the effects of education and fines on future traffic offences and collisions
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No evaluations have been conducted to determine whether Option 4, an Albertan driver education workshop, is effective in reducing future traffic violations and collisions when compared to fines. This thesis followed cohorts of Albertan traffic offenders (N = 1,707), one group who received a...
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Cumulative Total Incidence for Estimating the Burden of Recurrent Events and Risk vs. Rate Concepts and Regression Models in Epidemiology
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In the first part of this thesis, a straightforward intuitive method for descriptive survival analysis, termed “cumulative total incidence”, is proposed to measure the total burden of recurrent events in a population by a given time. Using data from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study,...
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Evaluation of machine learning methods for predicting eradication of aquatic invasive species
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Yanyu Xiao, Russell Greiner, Mark A. Lewis
In the work, we evaluate the performance of machine learning approaches for predicting successful eradication of aquatic invasive species (AIS) and assess the extent to which eradication of an invasive species depends on the certain specified ecological features of the target ecosystem...
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Fall 2019
An accurate model of a patient’s individual survival distribution can help determine the appropriate treatment for terminal patients. Unfortunately, risk scores (e.g., from Cox Proportional Hazard models) do not provide survival probabilities, single-time probability models (e.g., the Gail model,...
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Spring 2022
The association between multimorbidity and mortality was well established based on the previous studies. However, there is limited evidence of excess mortality in people with multimorbidity among the Canadian population, and a study with a larger sample size is recommended. Furthermore, it has...
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Using Survival Prediction Techniques to Learn Consumer-Specific Reservation Price Distributions
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A consumer's "reservation price" (RP) is the highest price that s/he is willing to pay for one unit of a specified product or service. It is an essential concept in many applications, e.g., personalized pricing, auction and negotiation. While consumers will not volunteer their RPs, we may be able...
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When skills don’t matter: occupational status recovery inequalities within Canada’s highly skilled immigrant population
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This dissertation explores potential explanations for why occupational status recovery inequalities develop within Canada’s highly skilled immigrant population during the first four years of settlement. Using a nationally representative dataset, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada,...