• Survey Research
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.1-27
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• 2008

Problems of incomplete data are pervasive in statistical analysis. In particular, incomplete data have been an important challenge in repeated measures studies. The objective of this study is to give a brief introduction to missing data mechanisms and conventional/recent missing data methods and to assess the performance of various missing data methods under ignorable and non-ignorable missingness mechanisms. Given the inadequate attention to longitudinal studies with missing data, this study applied recent advances in missing data methods to repeated measures models and investigated the performance of various missing data methods, such as FIML (Full Information Maximum Likelihood Estimation) and MICE(Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations), under MCAR, MAR, and MNAR mechanisms. Overall, the results showed that listwise deletion and mean imputation performed poorly compared to other recommended missing data procedures. The better performance of EM, FIML, and MICE was more noticeable under MAR compared to MCAR. With the non-ignorable missing data, this study showed that missing data methods did not perform well. In particular, this problem was noticeable in slope-related estimates. Therefore, this study suggests that if missing data are suspected to be non-ignorable, developmental research may underestimate true rates of change over the life course. This study also suggests that bias from non-ignorable missing data can be substantially reduced by considering rich information from variables related to missingness.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.191-199
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• 2001

본 소고는 n명의 심사자가 k개의 객체를 평가하여 얻어진 불완전 순위자료에서 객체간 선호도에 있어 차이가 없다는 영가설을 검정하는 방법에 관한 연구이다. 주어진 자료에서 결측값들을 다중대체하는 방식을 제안하고 이들을 평균 p-값으로 묶는 몬테칼로방식의 임의순열 검정을 제안한다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.45-53
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 모든 판정자(judge)들이 모든 객체(object)들에 대해 순위를 부여할 수 없는 경우에 얻어지는 불완전 순위자료에서 판정자들의 처리 효과에 대한 유의성을 검정하는데 관심이 있다. 이를 위해 불완전 순위자료를 완전자료로 바꾸는 알고리즘을 제안하고 알고리즘에 의해 얻어진 완전 순위자료에 Friedman 검정법을 적용하고자 한다. 제안된 검정법은 결측 객체에 순위를 부여하는데 있어서 완전순위를 갖는 판정자들의 정보를 이용함으로서 효율적이며 검정을 시행하는데 기존의 Friedman 통계량에 대한 분포표를 사용할 수 있어 간편하다. 그리고 몬테칼로 모의실험을 통하여 제안된 검정법과 기존의 평균 순위법, 최대/최소 Friedman 검정법과 검정력을 비교하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.327-336
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• 2014

Recurrent event data occurs when a subject experiences same type of event repeatedly and is found in various areas such as the social sciences, Economics, medicine and public health. To analyze recurrent event data either a total time or a gap time is adopted according to research interest. In this paper, we analyze recurrent event data with incomplete observation gap using a gap time scale. That is, some subjects leave temporarily from a study and return after a while. But it is not available when the observation gaps terminate. We adopt an interval censoring mechanism for estimating the termination time. Furthermore, to model the association among gap times of a subject, a frailty effect is incorporated into a model. Programs included in Survival package of R program are implemented to estimate the covariate effect as well as the variance of frailty effect. YTOP (Young Traffic Offenders Program) data is analyzed with both proportional hazard model and a weibull regression model.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.183-196
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• 2012

The inference for incomplete data such as missing data, truncated distribution and censored data is a phenomenon that occurs frequently in statistics. To solve this problem, Expectation Maximization(EM), Monte Carlo Expectation Maximization(MCEM) and Stochastic Expectation Maximization(SEM) algorithm have been used for a long time; however, they generally assume known distributions. In this paper, we propose the Metropolis-Hastings Expectation Maximization(MHEM) algorithm for unknown distributions. The performance of our proposed algorithm has been investigated on simulated and real dataset, KOSPI 200.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.383-392
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• 2000

Since late 1970, methods of influence or sensitivity analysis for detecting influential observations have been studied not only in regression and related methods but also in various multivariate methods. If results of multivariate analyses sometimes depend heavily on a small number of observations, we should be very careful to draw a conclusion. Similar phenomena may also occur in the case of incomplete data. In this research we try to study such influential observations in multivariate statistical analysis of incomplete data. Case of principal component analysis is studied with a numerical example.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.191-202
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 n명의 judge들이 k개의 object들에 대해 순위를 부여하는 경우 얻어질수 있는 불완전 순위자료에서 object효과들이 같은지에 대한 검정법을 제안하고 컴퓨터 프로그램없이 쉽게 구현할수 있는 효과적인 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 그리고 기존의 평균순위법과 Monte Carlo 연구를 통하여 검정력을 비교하였다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.145-157
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• 1994

For multivariate distributions satisfying stochastic ordering, we suggest maximum likelihood estimation with incomplete data via an EM algorithm. In this paper we restrict our attention to the contingency tables with partially cross-classified observations. We may use the existing isotonic regression program to implement EM algorithm, and we illustrate the estimation process through an example.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.17D no.1
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• pp.17-24
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• 2010

Recently, there has been growing interest in skyline queries. Most of works for skyline queries assume that the data do not have null value. However, when we input data through the Web or with other different tools, there exist incomplete data with null values. As a result, several skyline processing techniques for incomplete data have been proposed. However, available skyline query techniques for incomplete data do not consider the environments that coexist complete data and incomplete data since these techniques deal with the incomplete data only. In this paper, we propose a novel skyline group processing technique which evaluates skyline queries for the environments that coexist complete data and incomplete data. To do this, we introduce the top-k(g) skyline group query which searches g skyline groups with respect to the user's dimensional preference. In our experimental study, we show efficiency of our proposed technique.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.521-534
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• 2006

This paper considers a panel regression model with ill-posed data and proposes the generalized maximum entropy(GME) estimator of the unknown parameters. These are natural extensions from the biometries, statistics and econometrics literature. The performance of this estimator is investigated by using of Monte Carlo experiments. The results indicate that the GME method performs the best in estimating the unknown parameters.