Schwartz, William K. Creator Graduate student wschwart@hawk.iit.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5639-4702 Petrović, Sonja Advisor Kaul, Hemanshu Advisor MATH / Applied Mathematics Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department Markov chains exponential families permutation uniformity networks ERGMs dynamic networks exact test hypothesis testing mixed-membership stochastic block models auctions statistics operations research cominatorial auctions dynamic programming 2021-11-19 2021-12 ProQuest The Air Force Office of Scientific Research's grant FA9550-14-1-0141 supported Prof. Petrović's and my initial work on this project. Dissertation en https://doi.org/10.1111/sjos.12630 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2108.05555 https://www.proquest.com/docview/2622985712 open access eng http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:1011986