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The Necessity of Auxiliary Labeling

  • Hong, Myung-Ja
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.10b
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    • pp.72.1-72.1
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    • 2003
  • The use of auxiliary labels in many advanced countries has shown that patients and caregivers understanding, safety and compliance with proper administration of medication is significantly increased. Although in Korea we give required information orally and written on the packaging when we dispense medication, many international studies have demonstrated a marked increase in full compliance when auxiliary labels were used. The pharmacist must insure that the patients understand how to take correctly in order to get the maximum effect of treatment. (omitted)

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Efficient Use of Auxiliary Information through the Stratified Sampling and Systematic Sampling Design (층화추출과 계통추출을 이용한 효율적인 보조정보 사용)

  • Kim, Gwan-Su;Park, Min-Gue
    • Survey Research
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.155-168
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    • 2009
  • As an efficient sampling design, stratified random sampling is often used when auxiliary information is available at the designing stage. Although one - per - stratum design is an efficient design that can be used when many auxiliary variables are available, it does not provide any unbiased variance estimator. With a two - per - stratum sample in which two elements are selected from each stratum, it is possible to obtain an unbiased variance estimator. However the loss of efficiency could be significant if any important stratification variable is missed. In this study, we investigated a sampling design that uses the all given auxiliary information and also permits an unbiased variance estimator suggested by Park and Fuller(2008). Through a simulation study, we compared several stratified random sampling and systematic sampling design. We also applied the proposed stratified sampling designs to 2007 youth panel data.

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AANet: Adjacency auxiliary network for salient object detection

  • Li, Xialu;Cui, Ziguan;Gan, Zongliang;Tang, Guijin;Liu, Feng
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.15 no.10
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    • pp.3729-3749
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    • 2021
  • At present, deep convolution network-based salient object detection (SOD) has achieved impressive performance. However, it is still a challenging problem to make full use of the multi-scale information of the extracted features and which appropriate feature fusion method is adopted to process feature mapping. In this paper, we propose a new adjacency auxiliary network (AANet) based on multi-scale feature fusion for SOD. Firstly, we design the parallel connection feature enhancement module (PFEM) for each layer of feature extraction, which improves the feature density by connecting different dilated convolution branches in parallel, and add channel attention flow to fully extract the context information of features. Then the adjacent layer features with close degree of abstraction but different characteristic properties are fused through the adjacent auxiliary module (AAM) to eliminate the ambiguity and noise of the features. Besides, in order to refine the features effectively to get more accurate object boundaries, we design adjacency decoder (AAM_D) based on adjacency auxiliary module (AAM), which concatenates the features of adjacent layers, extracts their spatial attention, and then combines them with the output of AAM. The outputs of AAM_D features with semantic information and spatial detail obtained from each feature are used as salient prediction maps for multi-level feature joint supervising. Experiment results on six benchmark SOD datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms similar previous methods.

Multivariate analysis of longitudinal surveys for population median

  • Priyanka, Kumari;Mittal, Richa
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.255-269
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    • 2017
  • This article explores the analysis of longitudinal surveys in which same units are investigated on several occasions. Multivariate exponential ratio type estimator has been proposed for the estimation of the finite population median at the current occasion in two occasion longitudinal surveys. Information on several additional auxiliary variables, which are stable over time and readily available on both the occasions, has been utilized. Properties of the proposed multivariate estimator, including the optimum replacement strategy, are presented. The proposed multivariate estimator is compared with the sample median estimator when there is no matching from a previous occasion and with the exponential ratio type estimator in successive sampling when information is available on only one additional auxiliary variable. The merits of the proposed estimator are justified by empirical interpretations and validated by a simulation study with the help of some natural populations.

A Study for the Unit Nonresponse Calibration using Two-Phase Sampling Method

  • Yum, Joon Keun;Jung, Young Mee
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.479-489
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    • 2002
  • The case which applies two-phase sampling to stratification and nonresponse problem, it is a poweful and effective technique. In this paper we study the calibration estimator and its variance estimator for the population total using two-phase sampling method according to the of auxiliary information for population and sample having strong correlation with an interested variable in unit nonresponse situation. The auxiliary information that available both at first-phase and second-phase sampling can be used to improve weights by the calibration procedure. A weight which corresponds to the product of sampling weights and response probability is calculated at each phase of sampling.

Multivariate Rotation Design for Population Mean in Sampling on Successive Occasions

  • Priyanka, Kumari;Mittal, Richa;Kim, Jong-Min
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.445-462
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    • 2015
  • This article deals with the problem of estimation of the population mean in presence of multi-auxiliary information in two occasion rotation sampling. A multivariate exponential ratio type estimator has been proposed to estimate population mean at current (second) occasion using information on p-additional auxiliary variates which are positively correlated to study variates. The theoretical properties of the proposed estimator are investigated along with the discussion of optimum replacement strategies. The worthiness of proposed estimator has been justified by comparing it to well-known recent estimators that exist in the literature of rotation sampling. Theoretical results are justified through empirical investigations and a detailed study has been done by taking different choices of the correlation coefficients. A simulation study has been conducted to show the practicability of the proposed estimator.

An improved estimation procedure of population mean using bivariate auxiliary information under non-response

  • Bhushan, Shashi;Pandey, Abhay Pratap
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.347-357
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    • 2019
  • We propose new classes of estimators of population mean under non-response using bivariate auxiliary information. Some improved regression (or difference) type estimators have been proposed in four different situations of non response along with their properties and the expressions for the bias and mean square errors of the proposed estimators are derived under double (two-stage) sampling scheme. The properties of the suggested class of estimators are studied and it is observed that the proposed estimators performed better when compared to conventional estimators proposed by Singh and Kumar (Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140, 2536-2550, 2010b), Shabbir and Khan (Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 42, 4127-4145, 2013) and Bhushan and Naqvi (Journal of Statistics and Management Systems, 18, 573-602, 2015). A comparative study is also conducted both theoretically as well as empirically in order to support the results.

Statistical micro matching using a multinomial logistic regression model for categorical data

  • Kim, Kangmin;Park, Mingue
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.507-517
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    • 2019
  • Statistical matching is a method of combining multiple sources of data that are extracted or surveyed from the same population. It can be used in situation when variables of interest are not jointly observed. It is a low-cost way to expect high-effects in terms of being able to create synthetic data using existing sources. In this paper, we propose the several statistical micro matching methods using a multinomial logistic regression model when all variables of interest are categorical or categorized ones, which is common in sample survey. Under conditional independence assumption (CIA), a mixed statistical matching method, which is useful when auxiliary information is not available, is proposed. We also propose a statistical matching method with auxiliary information that reduces the bias of the conventional matching methods suggested under CIA. Through a simulation study, proposed micro matching methods and conventional ones are compared. Simulation study shows that suggested matching methods outperform the existing ones especially when CIA does not hold.

Usage of auxiliary variable and neural network in doubly robust estimation

  • Park, Hyeonah;Park, Wonjun
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.659-667
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    • 2013
  • If the regression model or the propensity model is correct, the unbiasedness of the estimator using doubly robust imputation can be guaranteed. Using a neural network instead of a logistic regression model for the propensity model, the estimators using doubly robust imputation are approximately unbiased even though both assumed models fail. We also propose a doubly robust estimator of ratio form using population information of an auxiliary variable. We prove some properties of proposed theory by restricted simulations.

A Study on Performance Characteristics for Auxiliary Converter of Korean High Speed Train (한국형 고속열차 보조컨버터 성능 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Young-Jae
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.10d
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    • pp.247-249
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    • 2006
  • As the on-board electric devices determine the performances of vehicles, production of reliable devices is important. To keep the reliability of devices constant, management of performance evaluation of the on-board devices is crucial. Because temperature bas a serious effect on failures of the components of the devices, its measurement is the first step for good management. In this study, we described performance characteristics of domestic auxiliary block developed through G7 project. We measured the performances of auxiliary block during test running by the developed on-line measurement system. After we save the input real-time data from each signal of Korean High Speed Train through the network line, we can acquire necessary information through Post-Processing program. We verify the auxiliary converter characteristics of Korean High Speed Train by this system.

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