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RICE UNIVERSITY

Regression Survival Analysis With Dependent Censoring
and a Change Point for the Hazard Rate: With Application
to the Impact of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to Insurance
Companies’ Survival

by

Nan (Jenny) Zhang

A Thesis Submitted
in Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree

Doctor of Philosophy

Approved. Thesis Committee:


Xuelin Huang, Co-Advisor

Associate Professor of Biostatistics at MD

Anderson Cancer Center


Wotao Yin

Assistant Professor of Computational and

Applied Mathematics


Houston, Texas
December,
2009



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