• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.123-136
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• 2015

Science has developed with great achievements after Galileo's discovery of the law depicting a relationship between observable variables. However, many natural phenomena have been better explained by models including unobservable random effects. A mixed effect model was the first statistical model that included unobservable random effects. The importance of the mixed effect models is growing along with the advancement of computational technologies to infer complicated phenomena; subsequently mixed effect models have extended to various statistical models such as hierarchical generalized linear models. Hierarchical likelihood has been suggested to estimate unobservable random effects. Our special issue about mixed effect models shows how they can be used in statistical problems as well as discusses important needs for future developments. Frequentist and Bayesian approaches are also investigated.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.957-981
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• 2017

A generalized linear mixed model is an extension of a generalized linear model that allows random effect as well as provides flexibility in developing a suitable model when observations are correlated or when there are other underlying phenomena that contribute to resulting variability. We describe maximum likelihood estimation methods for logistic regression models that include random effects - the Laplace approximation, Gauss-Hermite quadrature, adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature, and pseudo-likelihood. Applications are provided with social science problems by analyzing the effect of mental health and life satisfaction on volunteer activities from Korean welfare panel data; in addition, we observe that the inclusion of random effects in the model leads to improved analyses with more reasonable inferences.

• Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.111-115
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• 2003

소지역 모형들은 고정된(fixed)효과와 랜덤 효과를 포함하는 일반적 선형 혼한 모형의 특별한 경우로 간주될 수 있다. 소지역 평균이나 종계는 고정된 효과와 랜덤 효과의 일치 결합으로 표현될 수 있다. 블록 대각 공분산 구조를 갖는 선형 혼합모형(mixed model) 아래서 EBLUP은 실재문제에 있어서 많이 소지역 모형에 응용된다. 설계 가중값(design weight) 들에 의존하고 설계-일치(design consistency) 성질을 만족하는 Pseudo-EBLUP 추정량들은 소지역추정에서 합해지면 (aggregated) 사후-수정(post-adjustment)없이 벤치마킹 성질을 만족한다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.123-137
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• 2018

A nonlinear mixed effects model is mainly used to analyze repeated measurement data in various fields. A nonlinear mixed effects model consists of two stages: the first-stage individual-level model considers intra-individual variation and the second-stage population model considers inter-individual variation. The individual-level model, which is the first stage of the nonlinear mixed effects model, estimates the parameters of the nonlinear regression model. It is the same as the general nonlinear regression model, and usually estimates parameters using the least squares estimation method. However, the least squares estimation method may have a problem that the estimated value of the parameters and standard errors become extremely large if the assumed nonlinear function is not explicitly revealed by the data. In this paper, a new estimation method is proposed to solve this problem by introducing the ridge regression method recently proposed in the nonlinear regression model into the first-stage individual-level model of the nonlinear mixed effects model. The performance of the proposed estimator is compared with the performance with the standard estimator through a simulation study. The proposed methodology is also illustrated using quantitative high throughput screening data obtained from the US National Toxicology Program.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.317-330
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• 2014

Bipolar disorder is a psychopathy characterized by manic and major depressive episodes. It is important to determine the degree of depression when treating patients with bipolar disorder because 810% of bipolar patients commit suicide during the periods in which they experience major depressive episodes. The Hamilton depression rating scale is most commonly used to estimate the degree of depression in a patient. This paper proposes using the Hamilton depression rating scale to estimate the effectiveness of patient treatment based on the linear mixed effects model and the transition model. Study subjects were recruited from the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital who scored 8 points or above in the Hamilton depression rating scale on their first medical examination. The linear mixed effects model and the transition model were fitted using the Hamilton depression rating scales measured at the baseline, six month, and twelve month follow-ups. Then, Hamilton depression rating scale at the twenty-four month follow-up was predicted using these models. The prediction models were then evaluated by comparing the observed and predicted Hamilton depression rating scales on the twenty-four month follow-up.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.289-294
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• 2015

Linear mixed models are commonly used in the clinical pharmaceutical studies to analyze repeated measures such as the crossover study data of bioequivalence studies. In these models, random effects describe the correlation between repeated outcomes and variance-covariance matrix explain within-subject variabilities. Bioequivalence analysis verifies whether a 90% confidence interval for geometric mean ratio of Cmax and AUC between reference drug and test drug is included in the bioequivalence margin [0.8, 1.25] performed using linear mixed models with period, sequence and treatment effects as fixed and sequence nested subject effects as random. A Levofloxacin study is referred to for an example of real data analysis.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.361-369
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• 2015

A general linear mixed-effects model is often used to analyze repeated measurement experiment data of a continuous response variable. However, a general linear mixed-effects model can give improper analysis results when simultaneously detecting heteroscedasticity and the non-normality of population distribution. To achieve a more robust estimation, we used a heavy-tailed linear mixed-effects model for a more exact and reliable analysis conclusion than a general linear mixed-effects model. We also provide reliability analysis results for further research.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.511-520
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• 2010

The Pharmacokinetic model is a complex nonlinear model with pharmacokinetic parameters that is some-times represented by a complex form of differential equations. A population pharmacokinetic model adds individual variability using the random effects to the pharmacokinetic model. It amounts to the nonlinear mixed effect model. This paper, reviews the population pharmacokinetic model from a statistical viewpoint; in addition, a population pharmacokinetic model is also applied to the real clinical data along with a review of the statistical meaning of this model.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.353-366
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• 2018

This study uses mixed-effects models to predict thigh soft tissue artefact (STA), relative movement of soft tissue such as skin to femur occurring during hip joint motions. The random effects in the model were defined as STA and the fixed effects in the model were considered as skeletal motion. Five male subjects without musculoskeletal disease were selected to perform various hip joint rotational motions. Linear mixed-effects models were applied to markers' position vectors acquired from non-invasive method, photogrammetry. Predicted random effects showed similar patterns of STA among subjects. Large magnitudes of STA appeared on the points near the hip joint regardless of sides; however, small values appeared on the distal anterior.

• Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1-6
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• 2005

SAS의 PROC MIXED는 ANOVA 추정량보다 더 다양한 잔차최대우도추정법 또는 최대우도추정법으로 모수들을 추론할 수 있다. 혼합모형에 속하는 불균형중첩오차구조를 갖는 선형회귀모형에서 랜덤효과에 해당되는 그룹간의 분산과 고정효과에 해당되는 회귀계수들에 대한 신뢰구간을 구하기 위하여 대표본인 경우와 소표본인 경우에 대하여 PROC MIXED를 사용한다. 시뮬레이션을 실행한 결과, 대표본인 경우에는 모수들의 신뢰구간을 구하기 위하여 PROC MIXED를 활용할 수 있지만, 소표본인 경우에는 PROC MIXED를 사용할 경우, 그룹간 분산과 회귀계수 가운데 하나인 절편항에 대한 신뢰구간은 시뮬레이터된 신뢰계수가 명시한 신뢰계수를 지키지 못하는 것을 보인다.