• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.459-469
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• 2012

This article proposes a couple of parallel implementations of the self-organizing network for normal mixtures. In principle, self-organizing networks should be able to be implemented in a parallel computing environment without issue. However, the network for normal mixtures has inherent problem in being operated parallel in pure sense due to estimating conditional expectations of the mixing proportion in each iteration. This article shows the result of the parallel implementations of the network using Java. According to the results, both of the implementations achieved a faster execution without any performance degradation.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.1-14
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• 2010

The back-propagation neural network (BPN) has long been successfully applied in bankruptcy prediction problems. Despite its wide application, some major issues must be considered before its use, such as the network topology, learning parameters and normalization methods for the input and output vectors. Previous studies on bankruptcy prediction with BPN have shown that many researchers are interested in how to optimize the network topology and learning parameters to improve the prediction performance. In many cases, however, the benefits of data normalization are often overlooked. In this study, a genetic algorithm (GA)-based normalization transform, which is defined as a linearly weighted combination of several different normalization transforms, will be proposed. GA is used to extract the optimal weight for the generalization. From the results of an experiment, the proposed method was evaluated and compared with other methods to demonstrate the advantage of the proposed method.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.71-99
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• 2010

The concept of CoVaR introduced by Adrian and Brunnermeier (2009) is a useful tool to measure the risk spillover effect. It can capture the risk contribution of each institution to overall systemic risk. While Adrian and Brunnermeier rely on the quantile regression method in the estimation of CoVaR, we propose a new estimation method using parametric distribution functions such as bivariate normal and $S_U$-normal distribution functions. Based on our estimates of CoVaR for Korean banking industry, we investigate the practical usefulness of CoVaR for a systemic risk measure, and compare the estimation performance of each model. Empirical results show that bank makes a positive contribution to system risk. We also find that quantile regression and normal distribution models tend to considerably underestimate the CoVaR (in absolute value) compared to $S_U$-normal distribution model, and this underestimation becomes serious when the crisis in a financial system is assumed.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.29-43
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• 2012

Financial data such as stock index returns and exchange rates have the properties of heavy tail and asymmetry compared to normal distribution. When we estimate VaR using the GARCH model (with the conditional return distribution of normal) it shows the tendency of the lower estimation and clustering in the losses over the estimated VaR. In this paper, we argue that this problem can be resolved through the adaptation of the unbounded Johnson distribution as that of the condition return. We also compare this model with the GARCH with the conditional return distribution of normal and student-t. Using the losses exceed the ex-ante VaR, estimates, we check the validity of the GARCH models through the failure proportion test and the clustering test. We nd that the GARCH model with conditional return distribution of unbounded Johnson provides an appropriate estimation of the VaR and does not occur the clustering of violations.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.281-301
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• 2004

In this paper we consider the change point problem in a sequence of univariate normal observations. We want to know whether there is any change point or not. In case a change point exists, we will identify its change type. Namely, it can be a mean change, a variance change, or both the mean and variance change. The intrinsic Bayes factors of Berger and Pericchi (1996, 1998) are used to find the type of optimal change model. The Gibbs sampling including the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is used to estimate all the parameters in the change model. These methods are checked via simulation and applied to the winter average temperature data in Seoul.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.746-752
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 다층 퍼셉트론 신경망 학습을 위한 새로운 두 단계 학습방법을 제안하고 이를 옵션 가격결정 모형에 응용하였다. 제안된 신경망 학습 알고리즘의 첫번째 단계는 Levenberg-Marquardt 알고리즘을 이용하여 빠르게 국소최적해를 찾는 것이고 두 번째 단계는 첫 번째 단계에서 찾은 국소최적해가 원하는 수준에 미치지 못할 경우 선형탐색 터널링을 이용해서 더 나은 해를 찾는 것이다. 이 두 단계를 반복적으로 수행함으로써 연결가중치 공간에서 구하고자 하는 해를 빠르고 안정적으로 찾을 수 있다. 현재 옵션가격결정 모형으로 많이 이용되고 있는 Black-Scholes 모형의 문제점을 극복하기 위해서 제안된 신경망 모형을 옵션가격결정 문제에 사용하였다. 이 모형을 KOSPI200 옵션 데이터로 실험한 결과 Black-Scholes 모형에 비해 검증오차를 60% 가량 줄일 수 있었다.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.189-208
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• 2006

In this paper we are concerned with estimation of tail related risk measures for heteroscedastic financial time series and VaR limits that VaR tells us nothing about the potential size of the loss given. So we use GARCH-EVT model describing the tail of the conditional distribution for heteroscedastic financial series and adopt Expected Shortfall to overcome VaR limits. The main results can be summarized as follows. First, the distribution of stock return series is not normal but fat tail and heteroscedastic. When we calculate VaR under normal distribution we can ignore the heavy tails of the innovations or the stochastic nature of the volatility. Second, GARCH-EVT model is vindicated by the very satisfying overall performance in various backtesting experiments. Third, we founded the expected shortfall as an alternative risk measures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.135-140
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• 2004

Lindsay and Basu (1994)에 의해 소개된 최소차이추정량 (Minimum Disparity Estimators)들은 실제 자료 분석 도구로써 유용하다. 본 논문에서는 최소일반화음지수 차이추정량 (Minimum Generalized Negative Exponential Disparity Estimator, MGNEDE)이 최대가능도추정량 (Maximum Likelihood Estimator, MLE)와 최소가중 헬링거거리추정량 (Minimum Blended Weight Hellinger Distance Estimator, MBWHDE)에 비해 오염된 정규모형에서 효율적이고 로버스트하다는 것을 모의실험을 통하여 확인하였다. 또한 세 가지 추정량들에 의해 추정된 모수들을 이용하여 판별하였을 때 자 추정량득의 판별율을 비교함으로써 오염된 정규모형에서 MLE의 대안으로 MGNEDE와 MBWHDE를 사용할 수 있음을 보였다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.357-371
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• 2007

For the time-to-failure data with competing risks, cumulative incidence functions (CIFs) are commonly estimated using nonparametric methods. If the cases of events due to the cause of primary interest are infrequent relative to other cause of failure, nonparametric methods may result in rather imprecise estimates for CIF. In such cases, Bryant et al. (2004) suggested to model the cause-specific hazard of primary interest parametrically, while accounting for the other modes of failure using nonparametric estimator. We represented the semiparametric cumulative incidence estimator and extended to the model of Weibull and log-normal distribution. We also conducted simulations to access the performance of the semiparametric cumulative incidence estimators and to investigate the impact of model misspecification in log-normal cause-specific hazard model.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.449-462
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• 2001

베이지안 다중 검정방법(multiple hypothesis test)은 여러 통계모형에서 성공적인 결과를 주는 것으로 알려져있다. 일반적으로, 베이지안 가설검정은 고려중인 모형에 대한 사후확률을 계산하여 가장 높은 확률은 갖는 모형을 선택하기 때문에 귀무가설의 기각여부에만 관심을 가지는 고전적인 분산분석 검정과는 달리 좀 더 구체적인 모형을 선택할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 이 논문에서는 독립이면서 로그정규분포를 따르는 K($\geq$3)개 모집단의 모수에 대한 가설 검정방법으로 O’Hagan(1995)이 제안한 부분 베이즈 요인을 이용한 베이지안 방법을 제안한다. 이 때 모수에 대한 사전분포로는 무정보적 사전분포를 사용한다. 제안한 검정 방법의 유용성을 알아보기 위하여 실제 자료의 분석과 모의 실험을 이용하여 고전적인 검정방법과 그 결과를 비교한다.