Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa
Recent Submissions
-
Measuring review report quality in health research : development and validation of ARCADIA
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-01-21)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Université Paris 7Editorial peer review is the gateway to scientific publication. It was established to ensure that research papers were vetted by independent experts before they are published. Despite the importance of this process, its ... -
Dynamic OD matrix estimation exploiting ICT traffic measurements
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-10-01)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessDuring the last decades, urban mobility has become the main concern for city councils and transportation operators. The main problem is the traffic congestion that easily appears in urban networks, producing negative ... -
Desarrollo de técnicas estadísticas basadas en computacion intensiva para el análisis de medidas repetidas
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-04-09)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThis thesis includes contributions to statistical methodologies and practical applications in situations where data has been obtained as a result of repeated measures. The first block includes a first article where different ... -
Long-term impact of an editorial intervention to improve paper transparency and reproducibility
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-07-15)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThis PhD thesis is concerned with evaluating the long-term effects of interventions in the editorial peer review process of a biomedical journal. The growing need to increase the value of research and avoid waste motivates ... -
Data science in HIV : statistical approaches for therapeutic HIV vaccine data
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-06-30)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe present dissertation contributes to Data Science in the Human lmmunodeficiency Virus (HIV) field, addressing specific issues related to the modelling of data coming from three different clinical trials based on ... -
Proposing some innovative study design features to regulatory agencies (EMA and FDA) in bioequivalence trials : Reference Scaled Average Bioequivalence, and Two-Stage Adaptive Designs
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-05-28)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessIn applications for generic medicinal products the concept of bioequivalence is fundamental. Two medicinal products, i.e. a test and a reference drugs containing the same active substance are considered bioequivalent if ... -
Constant effect in randomized clinical trials with quantitative outcome : a methodological review
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-05-27)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe past decade has seen continuous growth in so-called precision medicine, due especially to great advances in the genetics. While applying it presently goes unquestioned in certain fields like oncology, it is more ... -
From RNA to histological images: linking the transcriptome with human phenotypes through statistical learning
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-04-07)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessGenomic datasets are fundamental to broaden our understanding of human biology in the context of health and disease. However, the high-dimensional nature of gene expression and other molecular traits poses a challenge when ... -
Ingeniería kansei en el campo del diseño : una aproximación desde la ingeniería estadística aplicada a la percepción de los materiales
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-01-19)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe objective of the current doctoral thesis is the theoretical and experimental application of Kansei engineering in the field of design. Kansei engineering is a method that aims to develop or improve products, services ... -
Zipf extensions and their applications for modeling the degree sequences of real networks
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-02-05)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe Zipf distribution, also known as discrete Pareto distribution, attracts considerable attention because it helps describe skewed data from many natural as well as man-made systems. Under the Zipf distribution, the ... -
Designing smart ITS services through innovative data analysis modeling
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-02-11)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessNowadays, one of the most important problems in urban areas concerns traffic congestion. This, in turn, has an impact on the economy, nature, human health, city architecture, and many other facets of life. Part of the ... -
Solving large-scale two-stage stochastic optimization problems by specialized interior point method
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-01-13)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessTwo-stage stochastic optimization models give rise to very large linear problems (LP). Several approaches have been devised for efficiently solving them, among which are interior-point methods (IPM). However, using IPM, ...
RSS 1.0