• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.573-581
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• 2015

We study problems of sample size determination for one-sample location tests. A simulation study shows that sample size calculations based on approximated distribution do not achieve the nominal level of power. We investigate sample size determinations based on exact distribution and with a power that attains the nominal level.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.513-528
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• 2017

Statistics are often used to test two samples if they have been drawn from the same underlying distribution. In this paper, we introduce several well-known distribution-free tests to compare distributions and conduct an extensive Monte-Carlo simulation to specify their behaviors. We consider various circumstances of when two distributions vary in (1) location, (2) scale, (3) symmetry, (4) kurtosis, (5) tail weight. A practical guideline for two-sample goodness-of-fit test is presented based on the simulation result.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1349-1357
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• 2013

In clinical research, sample size determination is one of the most important things. There are parametric method using t-test and non-parametric method suggested by Kim and Kim (2007) based on Wilcoxon's rank sum test for determining sample size in non-inferiority trials. In this paper, we propose sample size calculation method based on placements method suggested by Orban and Wolfe (1982) and using the power calculated by Kim (1994) in non-inferiority trials. We also compare proposed sample size with that using Kim and Kim (2007)'s formula and that of t-test for parametric methods. As the result, sample size calculated by proposed method based on placements is the smallest. Therefore, proposed method based on placements is better than parametric methods in case that it's hard to assume specific distribution function for population and also more efficient in terms of time and cost than method based on Wilcoxon's rank sum test.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.1243-1251
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• 2010

For clinical trials, it is common to compare the placebo and new drug. The method of calculating a sample size for two independent populations are the t-test that is used for parametric methods, and the Wilcoxon rank-sum test that is used in the non-parametric methods. In this paper, we propose a method that is using Kim's (1994) statistic power based on the linear placement statistic, which was proposed by Orban and Wolfe (1982). We also compare the sample size for the proposed method with that for using Wang et al. (2003)'s sample size formula which is based on Wilcoxon rank-sum test, and with that of t-test for parametric methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.37-42
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• 2005

통계학의 주요 관심인 표본의 정규성 검정을 위해 통계패키지에서 사용하고 있는 Q-Q(quantile-quantile) 플롯을 중도절단표본에서 사용함으로 발생하는 문제점을 알아보고 이를 보완하여 수정된 Q-Q플롯과 수정된 Normalized Sample Lorenz Curve(NSLC)을 제시한다. 예제로 Hodgkin's disease 데이터를 중도절단하여 새로 제시한 Normalized Sample Lorenz Curve을 그려보았다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.53-61
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• 2012

There are cases when the sample size is determined based not only on the significance level but also on on the power or type II error. In this paper, we implemented the sample size and the power calculation when both the significance level and power for testing means in normal distributions and proportions in binomial distributions. The implementation is available on a web site. Alternately, we also calculate the power for a given effect size, type I error probability and sample size.

• Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.149-150
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• 2003

소표본 분할표 자료에서 적합도 검정통계량들의 카이제곱 근사 적용 가능에 대하여 많은 연구가 진행되었다. 소표본에서 세 가지 검정 통계량(피어슨 카이제곱 $X^{2}$, 일반화 가능도비 $G^{2}$, 그리고 역발산 I(2/3) 검정통계량)에 관하여 비교한 Rudas(1986)의 연구를 확장하여, 최근에 제안된 차이측도(BWHD(1/9), BWCS(1/3), NED(4/3) 검정통계량)를 포함시켜 비교 분석하였다. 독립모형의 이차원 분할표, 조건부 독립모형과 한 변수 독립 모형을 따르는 삼차원 분할표에 대한 모의실험을 통하여 생성된 90과 95 백분위수와 이에 대응하는 95% 신뢰구간을 살펴보고 실제 백분위수와 비교하였다. 그 결과 $X^{2}$, I(2/3), 그리고 BWHD(1/9) 검정통계량이 유사한 결과를 나타내었고 이 통계량들이 기존에 제안된 검정통계량들보다 적은 표본크기에서도 카이제곱 근사방법에 적용 가능함을 발견하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.477-485
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• 2013

In this paper, we consider the sample sizes required for each group in independent two sample test of normal populations when both the type I error and type II error probabilities are specified with sample sizes and variances being possibly different. We derived the sample sizes and the power of the tests, and implement them by web programing. The result is available over the world wide web. Further, we also provide the power calculations and have them available on the web.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.1249-1263
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• 2009

The power function in sample size determination has to be characterized by an appropriate statistical test for the hypothesis of interest. Nonparametric tests are suitable in the analysis of ordinal data or frequency data with ordered categories which appear frequently in the biomedical research literature. In this paper, we study sample size calculation methods for the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test for one- and two-dimensional ordinal outcomes. While the sample size formula for the univariate outcome which is based on the variances of the test statistic under both null and alternative hypothesis perform well, this formula requires additional information on probability estimates that appear in the variance of the test statistic under alternative hypothesis, and the values of these probabilities are generally unknown. We study the advantages and disadvantages of different sample size formulas with simulations. Sample sizes are calculated for the two-dimensional ordinal outcomes of efficacy and safety, for which bivariate Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test is appropriate than the multivariate parametric test.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.77-83
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• 1985

This paper deals with a normality test to determine whether the data are sampled from normal population or not. In this paper the property that the mean and variance are independently distributed only for the normal distribution is used as a basis for developing a new test using the simple regression analysis. Considering the redan and variance of a random sample as independent and dependent variables, if it has not the regression relationship we conclude that the data were sampled from the normal distribution. The Monte-Carlo power study shows that the new test using the simple regression analysis has good power property relative to 6 well-known test methods for 11 distributions.