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Title page for a dissertation in LaTeX adhering to UW Madison's title page requirements
% adapted from https://texblog.org/2014/05/08/template-for-latex-phd-thesis-title-page/
% Fits University of Wisconsin's dissertation requirements:
% https://grad.wiscweb.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/329/2017/11/new_phd_title_page.pdf
\begin{titlepage}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{fullwidth}
\begin{center}
\centering
% %Thesis title
{\sc{\Large The Incidental Learning\\ of\\ Feature Distributions\\ in\\ Supervised Classification\par}}
\vspace{2cm}
%Author's name
{\Large Your Name\par}
\vspace{2cm}
%Degree
{\Large A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of\\ the requirements for the degree of\par}
\vspace{2cm}
{\Large Doctor of Philosophy\par}
{\Large (Educational Psychology)\par}
\vspace{2cm}
%Date
{\Large at the\\ University of Wisconsin---Madison\\ 2018}
\vspace{2cm}
\end{center}
{\Large Date of final oral examination: XXXX-XX-XX\par}
{\Large The dissertation is approved by the following members of the Final oral Committee: \\
\hspace{1cm} XXXX, Professor, Educational Pscyhology \\
\hspace{1cm} XXXX, Professor, Psychology \\
\hspace{1cm} XXXX, Professor, Psychology \\
\hspace{1cm} XXXX, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology \\
\hspace{1cm} XXXX, Assitant Professor, Educational Psychology \\
\par}
\end{fullwidth}
\end{titlepage}
\clearpage
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I used the Tufte-Markdown package for RMarkdown from CRAN to write my dissertation. I replaced the \maketitle section in the tufte-handout.tex file with the above code.

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