• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.219-224
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• 2015

This research estimates the Mixture of Normals of households saving rate in Korea. Our sample is MDSS, micro-data in 2014 and Gibbs algorithm is used to estimate the Mixture of Normals. Evidences say some results. First, Gibbs algorithm works very well in estimating the Mixture of Normals. Second, Saving rate data has at least two components, one with mean zero and the other with mean 29.4%. It might be that households would be separated into high saving group and low saving group. Third, analysis of Mixture of Normals cannot answer that question and we find that income level and age cannot explain our results.

• 한국데이터정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.127-130
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• 2004

혼합정규분포에서 얻어진 히스토그램 자료에서 모수의 추정은 EM 알고리즘 혹은 스프라인 방법이 흔히 이용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 히스토그램 자료를 비선형회귀모형으로 적합하는 방법을 제시하고, 시뮬레이션으로 제시된 방법과 EM 알고리즘 방법을 비교하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.11C
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• pp.1073-1078
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose an iterative mixed norm image restoration algorithm using multi regularization parameters. A functional which combines the regularized $l_2$ norm functional and the regularized $l_4$ norm functional is proposed to efficiently remove arbitrary noise. The smoothness of each functional is determined by the regularization parameters. Also, a regularization parameter is used to determine the relative importance between the regularized $l_2$ norm functional and the regularized $l_4$ norm functional using kurtosis. An iterative algorithm is utilized for obtaining a solution and its convergence is analyzed. Experimental results demonstrate the capability of the proposed algorithm.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.269-278
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• 2011

There are many researches that have considered the distribution functions and appropriate covariates corresponding to the scores in order to improve the accuracy of a diagnostic test, including the ROC curve that is represented with the relations of the sensitivity and the specificity. The ROC analysis was used by the regression model including some covariates under the assumptions that its distribution function is known or estimable. In this work, we consider a general situation that both the distribution function and the elects of covariates are unknown. For the ROC analysis, the mixtures of normal distributions are used to estimate the distribution function fitted to the credit evaluation data that is consisted of the score random variable and two sub-populations of parameters. The AUC measure is explored to compare with the nonparametric and empirical ROC curve. We conclude that the method using normal mixtures is fitted to the classical one better than other methods.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.219-229
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• 2010

There have been many researches on the risk management due to rapid increase of various risk factors for financial assets. Aa a method for comprehensive risk management, Value at Risk (VaR) is developed. For estimation of VaR, it is important task to solve the problem of asymmetric distribution of the return rate with heavy tail. Most real distributions of the return rate have high positive kurtosis and low negative skewness. In this paper, some alternative distributions are used to be fitted to real distributions of the return rate of financial asset. And estimates of VaR obtained by using these fitting distributions are compared with those obtained from real distribution. It is found that normal mixture distribution is the most fitted where its skewness and kurtosis of practical distribution are close to real ones, and the VaR estimation using normal mixture distribution is more accurate than any others using other distributions including normal distribution.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.129-139
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• 1998

This article examines the use and some difficulties of Normal Test Variables(NTV) plot for clinical research. Monte Carlo Simulation results are presented based on Normal, Bimodal, Uniform, Exponential and skewed-right distributed Beta Distributions. Further, some solutions are presented and illustrated.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.987-994
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• 2011

From the point view of credit evaluation whose population is divided into the default and non-default state, two methods are considered to estimate conditional distribution functions: one is to estimate under the assumption that the data is followed the mixture normal distribution and the other is to use the kernel density estimation. The parameters of normal mixture are estimated using the EM algorithm. For the kernel density estimation, five kinds of well known kernel functions and four kinds of the bandwidths are explored. In addition, the corresponding ROC functions are obtained based on the estimated distribution functions. The goodness-of-fit of the estimated distribution functions are discussed and the performance of the ROC functions are compared. In this work, it is found that the kernel distribution functions shows better fit, and the ROC function obtained under the assumption of normal mixture shows better performance.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2008

For a large data set the high computational cost of estimating the parameters of normal mixtures with the conventional EM algorithm is crucially impedimental in applying the algorithm to the areas requiring high speed computation such as real-time speech recognition. Simulations show that the binned EM algorithm, being compared to the standard one, significantly reduces the cost of computation without loss in accuracy of the final estimates.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.513-523
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• 2016

Fitting a mixture of multivariate skew normal distribution (MSNMix) with multiple skewness parameter vectors via EM algorithm often requires a highly expensive computational cost to calculate the moments and probabilities of multivariate truncated normal distribution in E-step. Subsequently, it is common to fit an asymmetric data set with MSNMix with a simple skewness parameter vector since it allows us to compute them in E-step in an univariate manner that guarantees a cheap computational cost. However, the adaptation of a simple skewness parameter is unrealistic in many situations. This paper proposes an approximate estimation for the MSNMix with multiple skewness parameter vectors that also allows us to treat them in an univariate manner. We additionally provide some experiments to show its effectiveness.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.821-834
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• 2013

Law et al. (2004) proposed a normal distribution based salient mixture model for variable selection in clustering. However, this model has substantial problems such as the unidentifiability of components an the inaccurate selection of informative variables in the case of a small cluster size. We propose an alternative method to overcome problems and demonstrate a good performance through experiments on simulated data and real data.