• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.3017-3021
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• 2013

Background: Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is an important aspect in identifying cancer patients' perceptions of being diagnosed with cancer and the assessment of treatment outcomes. The present study aimedto assess the profile and predicators of HRQoL of Malaysian oncology patients. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study adopting the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) was conducted. All cancer patients attending Penang General Hospital between August-November 2011 were approached. Descriptive statistics were used to assess demographic and disease related characteristics of the patients. All analyses were performed using SPSS v 16.0. Results: Three hundred and ninety three cancer patients met the inclusion criteria and were enrolled in the study. The mean age was 53.9 ($SD{\pm}13$) years. The cohort was dominated by females (n=260, 66.2%). Nearly half (n=190, 48.3%) of the participants were of Malay ethnicity, practicing Islam as their religion (n=194, 494%). Two hundred and ninety six (n=296, 75.3%) had beene diagnosed with cancer within six months to 3 years previously. The most common primary cancer site was breast (n=143, 36.4%). The mean Global Health Status (GHS) score was 60.7 (SD=21.3). Females (mean GHS score of 62.3, p=0.035) with Malay ethnicity (mean GHS score of 63.8, p=0.047), practicing Islam as their religion (mean GHS score of 63.0, p=0.011) had better GHS scores. Patients having medical insurance had good scores (mean 65.6, p-0.021). Marital status was significantly associated with GHS scores (p=0.022). Bone cancer patientshad the lowest mean GHS score of 49.2 (p=0.044). Patients at very advanced stages of cancer featured a low GHS mean score of 52.2 (p<0.001). Conclusions: The present study identified many demographic and disease related factors which may contribute to the HRQoL of cancer patients, pointing to the necessity for improved management of disease symptoms and provision of psychological and financial support.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.123-136
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• 2017

정보시스템(IS)에 대한 평가분석 방법은 시스템관점, 이용자관점, 경영관점에서 연구되고 있다. 세부 방법으로는 이용자 설문이나 전문가의 의견에 의한 정성적 평가를 수행한다. 본 연구에서는 평가분석 항목 중 행정업무시스템의 구축으로 얻어지는 생산성과 효과를 측정하였다. 기존 연구에서 정성적인 생산성 평가와 범용적인 효과지표를 제시하는 것과 달리 정량적인 생산성과 행정민원에 특화된 지표를 선정하였다. 대표적인 행정업무시스템인 나라장터를 대상으로 전자계약 실적과 중간과정에 기록된 정보를 이용하여 소요일수로 환산하고, 투입 인력에 따른 생산성을 산정하였다. 효과분석은 행정업무시스템의 목표인 민원관련 설문을 분석하였다. 기록된 정보에는 계약문서작성, 공문서처리, 전화통화량을 업무활동 요인으로 선정하였다. 설문항목에는 민원대응을 위한 수행영향, 업무편의, 목표달성 여부를 설문으로 조사하였다. 각 요인을 반영적 구조변수와 형성적 구성변수로 구분하고 내적일관성(internal consistency)과 다중공선성(Multi-collinearity)을 진단하였다. 기술통계법에 따른 신뢰도 검증, 회귀분석을 통한 영향도 측정하고 다중회귀모델 경로계수로 모델을 분석하였다. 모델을 검증하기 위해 구조적방정식에서 활용하는 다중 확인적 요인분석(CFA)에 따라 Chi-square, RMR, GFI, AGFI, NFI, CFI 분석을 수행한다.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.313-325
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• 2008

통계이용자들의 마이크로자료 제공요구가 갈수록 증가하고 있으며 통계작성기관도 마이크로자료의 제공을 위해 노력을 기울이고 있는 실정이다. 그러나 마이크로자료에는 응답자의 개인정보가 많이 담겨 있으므로 자료를 그대로 제공할 경우 개인정보가 노출 될 가능성이 높기 때문에 자료제공시 적절한 방법으로 노출을 제한시켜 주어야만 한다. 본 논문에서는 마이크로자료 제공시 발생하는 응답자의 정보노출에 대한 개념과 이를 제한하는 방법 등을 소개하고, 2005년에 통계청에서 실시한 인구주택총조사의 2% 마이크로자료 제공을 위해 다양한 노출제한방법을 적용하여 자료파일을 작성하는 과정을 설명하였다. 즉, 10% 표본조사결과를 모집단으로 하고 계통추출한 표본을 대상으로 외부인이 식별할 가능성이 높은 12개 항목을 key 변수로 선정한 후, 각 변수의 조합별 유일성을 파악하고 노출위험을 계산하였다. 그 결과 2% 표본을 통한 정보의 축소는 물론 그룹화, 코딩 등을 포함한 일련의 방법들을 적용함으로써 인구주택총조사 마이크로자료의 개인정보 노출을 제한하는데 상당한 효과가 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.115-121
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• 2010

Objectives : Based on a national sample survey, we present an analysis of the current situation in the use of moxibustion therapeutics by qualified medical practitioners in Korea. Methods : The survey population of 11,737 hospitals is stratified by administrative regions, and 331 of them are randomly selected from the list of hospitals. The same number of Korean medical doctors is interviewed under the computer-assisted telephone interviewing(CATI) system. The bound on the error of estimation is ${\pm}\;5.0%$ point. Results : Of the 331 Korean medical doctors surveyed, 69% have used moxibustion therapy for remedial treatment. About half of those doctors have employed the therapy for their patients over 30%. The average number of acupuncture points per treatment using the therapy mostly ranges 1 between 5. The percent of practitioners, who have the number of average minutes less than 20 in treatment, is 74%. The number of practitioners who primarily use modified moxibustion is 4 times as many as that of those using traditional moxibustion. Conclusions : Considering the survey results, if the laser heater, alternative to conventional moxibustion, which not only gives high thermal effect but also reduces both the users inconvenience and side effects, are developed, it may benefit more patients as well as Korean medical doctors.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.55-60
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the temporal land cover change by gradual urbanization of Gyeongan-cheon watershed. This study used the five land use of Landsat TM satellite images(l987, 1991, 2001, 2004) which were classified by maximum likelihood method. The five land use maps examine its accuracy by error matrix and administrative district statistics. This study analyze land use patterns in the past using time.series Landsat satellite images, and predict 2004 year land use using a CA-Markov combined CA(Cellular Automata) and Markov process, and examine its appropriateness. Finally, predict 2030, 2060 year land use maps by CA-Markov model were constructed from the classified images.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.5-14
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• 2016

Purpose - This paper studies if types of markets have an association with several variables such as occupation, district, sales, employee, administrative district by a lessor, area in rental building and so on. Three attributes of markets can be general commercial zones, central commercial zones and traditional markets. Furthermore, we can investigate the degree of association by calculating the numerical strength and visualizing their distances on two-dimensional plane, once the association exists between them. Research design, data, and methodology - This work is performed by the 2013 report presented with Small Businessmen Promotion Institute in Korea and used by a chi-squared test and correspondence analysis by using IBM SPSS 23.0. Results - The results show that types of markets, including traditional markets, have an association with variables considered in this paper, and we can obtain the detailed associations between attributes of corresponding variables by inspecting two-dimensional plane. Conclusions - This study suggests that government authority and local autonomy can make strategies to vitalize traditional markets and to get win-win relationships among several types of markets by looking over our findings.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제5권
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• pp.161-184
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• 2000

Accounting education research addresses a wide range of topics related to students, educational processes, educational outcomes, faculty, administrative structures, and the programs and constituents of accounting education. This study examines accounting education researches for the purpose of identifying changes in this research literature and opportunities for enhancing its development. The total number of accounting articles published each year has increased. More significant is the increase in the portion of articles based on empirical research and the decrease in the portion of non-empirical articles. And the empirical studies were classified by type of study, by type of statistics used in the study, and by whether the study referred to other accounting or non-accounting literature. These analysis suggests a number of opportunities for the development of future accounting education research: (1) review relevant non-accounting literature, (2) seek empirical tests of fundamental relationships, (3) design multi-institutional and longitudinal tests, (4) provide for aptitude-treatment interactions, and (5) focus on educational outcomes.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.845-852
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• 2010

The outcomes of counts commonly occur in the area of disease mapping for mortality rates or disease rates. A Poisson distribution is usually assumed as a model of disease rates in conjunction with a gamma prior. The small area typically refers to a small geographical area or demographic group for which very little information is available from the sample surveys. Under this situation the model-based estimation is very popular, in which the auxiliary variables from various administrative sources are used. The empirical Bayes estimator under Poissongamma model has been considered with its accuracy measures. An accuracy measure using a bootstrap samples adjust the underestimation incurred by the posterior variance as an estimator of true mean squared error. We explain the suggested method through a practical dataset of hitters in baseball games. We also perform a Monte Carlo study to compare the accuracy measures of mean squared error.

• 한국인구학
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.58-75
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• 1988

1.Objectives of the Study It is a well known fact that a prompt and reliable data on demographic information is essential in a proper planning and evaluation of any program of national or community level. Especially vital statistics are an important demographic component among demographic information. Realizing the importance of vital statistics, the government has made some efforts for years to improve the vital registration system which has a close relationship with the production of vital statistics. However, it is still observed that there are some limitations in utilizing vital registration data due to considerable amount of vital events which are never registered and registered but not in time or inaccurately, even though vital registration system in Korea has sound legal basis. In this connection, the objectives of the study is as follows :(1) To examine some problems of the vital registration system in various aspects, (2) To make improvement programme of continuous Demographic Survey as a supplementary source of vital statistics, and (3) To find out some alternatives for making it possible to produce and utilize the reliable vital statistics by developing analytical methodologies on that. 2. Current Situation of Vital Registration System All the vital events, i.e. births, deaths, marriages and divorces, are to be registered in time under the Civil Registration Law, Statistics Law and Regulation on Vital Statstics as a duty of people. Some recent tendencies in each of recent registration are summarized as below: (1) The completeness of vital registration .Out of all births which are occurred during a year, around 75% of those compared to the estimates are registered in the year of occurrence. .In case of death registration, the percentage of registration in the year of occurrene has been gradually increased from 86.2% in the year of 1980, but it is still below the level of 90% compared to the estimates. .The percentage of registration for marriages and divorces in the year of occurrence out of total registered numbers was revealed to be 69% and 73% respectively in 1985. (2) Continuous Demographic Survey .It is a kind of sample survey for the purpose of producing reliable vital statistics which could not be provided by the vital registration. .It covers about 17, 000 sample households at national level and important information for vital events are collected in every month by 323 expertized enumerators who are regular staff of the government. .Although the result of the survey seems to be more reliable than of vital registration, the reliability of the data is still bellow the acceptable level if compared with relevant information from other sources such as population census or special surveys. 3. Problems of Vital Registration System There are four major obstacles in improving vital registration system in Korea; (1) In general, policy priority is not given on any programme of improving vital registration system. It is, therefore, very difficult to formulate comprehensive programme through having cooperation from related authorities and sufficient financial assistance. (2) In all the laws related and system itself, there is substantial degree of overlap and irrationality. Registration of each vital event is maintained according to several laws and regulation such as Civil Registration Law, Statistics Law, Resident Registration Law and Regulation on Vital Statistics. However they are mutually overlapped and overall supervision can not be done systematically due to lack of co-operation among the authorities concerned. (3) The administration of vital registration system seems to be working inefficiently, because of most of civil servants who are in charge of vital registration are lacking of conception on vital statistics and also there is a certain extent of regidity in handling the works. Therefore, they are doing their jobs in a passive way. (4) A substantial proportion of vital events occurred is not registered within the legal time limit (i.e. within one month after the occurrence in case of birth and death) or not registered forever. Some of social customs and superstitution seem to be the potential causes especially in case of births and deaths. 4. Recommendations for the Improvement of Vital Statistics (1) Reporting systems such as civil registration, vital statistics and resident registration should be integrated under the single law. Also, administrative supervision, personnel and budget with regard to the registration system should be under the control of a single ministry. (2) It is necessary to simplify the procedures and methods of reporting vital events, i.e., reducing number of sheets of the form, making corrections easily, reducing registration items, etc. (3) Continuous Demographic Survey as a supplementary source of vital registration should be improved and special ad-hoc surveys should be conducted wth regular interval. (4) In-depth analysis should be done using various sources of data on vital statistics. 5. Concluding Remarks From this study, we can notice that temporary campaign and motivation programs are not sufficient to improve the quality of vital statistics. Strong intentions and continuous efforts of the government are needed for the improvement of the vital registration system. Furthermore, most of the data collected through the registration are not properly analyzed and utilized, partly due to the lack of appreciation among high-level governmental officials of the need for vital statistics. It is, therefore, requested that long-term improvement programs of vital statistics be implemented with policy priority and continuous efforts be given to this purpose as a long-term goal of development in Korea.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2006

최근 점사상을 활용하는 GIS 분야에서 많은 양의 점사상 축적과 함께 점분포 패턴을 정량적으로 평가하기 위한 알고리즘의 개발이 이루어지고 있다. 여러 연구에서 K-지표를 활용하여 점사상의 공간적 밀집 여부의 검증이 가능하며, 사건과 배경의 상호 관련성 평가가 가능함을 증명하고 있다. 한편 GIS 데이터로서의 점사상은 측량에 의해 실좌표가 관측된 사상보다는 주소와 같은 위치참조에 의해 간접적으로 좌표가 주어지는 경우가 많으며, 경우에 따라서는 통계자료와 같이 행정구역과 같은 지역단위의 집계자료로 대표되어 점사상 각각이 좌표를 가지지 못하는 경우도 많다. 본 연구에서는 GIS를 이용한 공간 분석 기법으로서 K-지표를 계산할 때, 집계자료의 사용이 K-지표의 산출에 미치는 영향을 평가하기 위하여, 원데이터(지번단위), 지형적인 집계(블록 단위), 행정적인 집계(행정구역 단위) 등 세 가지 형태의 데이터로부터 산출된 K-지표를 비교, 분석하였다. 연구결과 가까운 거리에서 밀집이 심하게 일어나는 점사상의 경우에는 행정구역과 같은 큰 지역단위를 이용하면 결과의 왜곡이 심하게 발생하여 활용이 곤란하나, 블록단위의 K-지표는 원데이터의 K-지표와 거의 유사함을 알 수 있었다.