• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.891-907
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• 2014

This article is concerned with one of the most important prior distributions for Bayesian analysis of survival and event history data, called Beta processes, proposed in Hjort (1990). We review the current state of the art of beta processes and their application to survival analysis. Relevant methodological and practical areas of research that we touch on relate to constructions, posterior distributions, large-sample properties, Bayesian computations, and mixtures of Beta processes.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.505-514
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• 2000

A Markov Chain Monte Carlo method with data augmentation is developed to compute the features of the posterior distribution. For each observed failure epoch, we introduced mixture failure model of Rayleigh and Erlang(2) pattern. This data augmentation approach facilitates specification of the transitional measure in the Markov Chain. Gibbs steps are proposed to perform the Bayesian inference of such models. For model determination, we explored sum of relative error criterion that selects the best model. A numerical example with simulated data set is given.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.73-84
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• 2002

Linear regression models with inequality constraints on the coefficients are frequently used in economic models due to sign or order constraints on the coefficients. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian approach to selecting significant explanatory variables in linear regression models with inequality constraints on the coefficients. Bayesian variable selection requires computation of posterior probability of each candidate model. We propose a method which computes all the necessary posterior model probabilities simultaneously. In specific, we obtain posterior samples form the most general model via Gibbs sampling algorithm (Gelfand and Smith, 1990) and compute the posterior probabilities by using the samples. A real example is given to illustrate the method.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.115-127
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• 2023

Multinomial probit model is a popular model for multiclass classification and choice model. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method is widely used for estimating multinomial probit model, but its computational cost is high. However, it is well known that variational Bayesian approximation is more computationally efficient than MCMC, because it uses subsets of samples. In this study, we describe multinomial probit model with Gaussian process classification and how to employ variational Bayesian approximation on the model. This study also compares the results of variational Bayesian multinomial probit model to the results of naive Bayes, K-nearest neighbors and support vector machine for the UCI mice protein expression level data.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.405-414
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• 1999

양쪽중단(doubly censored)된 지수분포에서 모수와 신뢰도함수를 계층적 베이지안(hierarchical Bayesian)방법을 이용하여 추정하였다. 베이즈 계산은 깁스표본기법(Gibbs sampler)을 이용하고 또한 완전조건부 분포(full conditional distribution)의 정량화 상수를 모르는 경우에는 적합기각방법(adaptive rejection sampling)을 이용하였다. 그리고 실제자료를 이용하여 분석을 하였다.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.219-227
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• 1996

역추정 문제에서 독립변수가 하나 더 추가되었을 때 나타나는 효과가 각 변수간의 상관 계수들 및 이들의 함수로 계산되는 결정계수에 따라 어떻게 달라지는지를 살펴보았다. 연구방법으로는 베이지안 방법을 택하였고, 계산상 어려움을 극복하기 위해 Gibbs sampling 방법 및 Mean Field Annealing 방법을 도입하였다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.877-888
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• 2017

Spectral analysis is used to determine the frequency of time series data. We first determine the frequency of the series through the power spectrum or the periodogram and then calculate the period of a cycle that may exist in a time series. Estimating the frequency using a Bayesian technique has been developed and proven to be useful; however, the Bayesian estimator for the frequency cannot be analytically solved through mathematical equations and may be handled numerically or computationally. In this paper, we make an inference on the Bayesian frequency through both resampling a parameter by Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods and resampling data by bootstrap methods for a time series. We take the Korean real estate price index as an example for Bayesian frequency estimation. We have found a difference in the periods between the sale price index and the long term rental price index, but the difference is not statistically significant.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.101-115
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• 2003

Lately there has been much theoretical and applied interest in linear models with non-normal heavy tailed error distributions. Starting Zellner(1976)'s study, many authors have explored the consequences of non-normality and heavy-tailed error distributions. We consider hierarchical models including selection models under a skewed heavy-tailed e..o. distribution proposed originally by Chen, Dey and Shao(1999) and Branco and Dey(2001) with Dirichlet process prior(Ferguson, 1973) in order to use a meta-analysis. A general calss of skewed elliptical distribution is reviewed and developed. Also, we consider the detail computational scheme under skew normal and skew t distribution using MCMC method. Finally, we introduce one example from Johnson(1993)'s real data and apply our proposed methodology.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.453-470
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• 2013

In this paper, we consider a Bayesian analysis of the dose-effect relationship of cadmium to evaluate a benchmark dose(BMD). For this purpose, two dose-response curves commonly used in the toxicity study are fitted based on Bayesian methods to the data collected from the scientific literature on cadmium toxicity. Specifically, Bayesian meta-analysis and hierarchical modeling build an overall dose-effect relationship that use a piecewise linear model and Hill model, where the inter-study heterogeneity and inter-individual variability of dose and effect such as gender, age and ethnicity are accounted. Estimation of the unknown parameters is made by using a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm based user-friendly software WinBUGS. Benchmark dose estimates are evaluated for various cut-offs and compared with different tested subpopulations with with gender, age and ethnicity based on these two Bayesian hierarchical models.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.735-744
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• 2009

In this paper, we introduce a fast approach for Bayesian detection of change points in long-memory processes. Since a heavy computation is needed to evaluate the likelihood function of long-memory processes, a method for simplifying the computational process is required to efficiently implement a Bayesian inference. Instead of estimating the parameter, we consider selecting a element from the set of possible parameters obtained by categorizing the parameter space. This approach simplifies the detection algorithm and reduces the computational time to detect change points. Since the parameter space is (0, 0.5), there is no big difference between the result of parameter estimation and selection under a proper fractionation of the parameter space. The analysis of Nile river data showed the validation of the proposed method.