• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.1181-1212
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• 2016

Fragility and loss functions are developed to predict damage and economic losses due to earthquake loading in Reinforced Concrete (RC) structural components with smooth rebars. The attention is focused on external/internal beam-column joints and ductile/brittle weak columns, designed for gravity loads only, using low-strength concrete and plain steel reinforcing bars. First, a number of damage states are proposed and linked deterministically with commonly employed methods of repair and related activities. Results from previous experimental studies are used to develop empirical relationships between damage states and engineering demand parameters, such as interstory and column drift ratios. Probability distributions are fit to the empirical data and the associated statistical parameters are evaluated using statistical methods. Repair costs for damaged RC components are then estimated based on detailed quantity survey of a number of pre-70 RC buildings, using Italian costing manuals. Finally, loss functions are derived to predict the level of monetary losses to individual RC components as a function of the experienced response demand.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.539-559
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• 2014

We derive the exact distribution of summation for random samples from uniform distribution and then compare the exact distribution with the approximated normal distribution obtained by the central limit theorem. To check the similarity between two distributions, we consider five existing normality tests based on the difference between the target normal distribution and empirical distribution: Anderson-Darling test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Cramer-von Mises test, Shapiro-Wilk test and Shaprio-Francia test. For the purpose of comparison, those normality tests are applied to the simulated data. It can sometimes be difficult to derive an exact distribution. Thus, we try two different transformations to find out which transform is easier to get the exact distribution in terms of calculation complexity. We compare two transformations and comment on the advantages and disadvantages for each transformation.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.119-128
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• 2002

Rao와 Yu(1994)는 소지역 추정(small area estimation) 문제를 해결하기 위한 방법으로 추정 시점과 인접지역 정보 등 보조정보와 과걱의 표본조사 결과를 모두 이용하는 모형과 그 모형으로 부터 경험적최량선형비편향추정량(Empirical Best Unbiased Predictor)을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서는 Rao와 Yu의 모형에서 미지의 모수에 대한 사전확률분포를 가정한 계층적 베이즈 추정량을 제안하고, 이를 미국의 주별 4인가족 소득추정문제에 적용하여 그 효율을 미국의 Census Bureau에서 사용하고 있는 경험적 베이즈추정량 및 이전에 제안된 다른 추정량들과 비교하였다.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.267-277
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 잔차를 이용하여 오차항의 코플라 함수를 추정하는 문제를 고려하였다. 확률적 회귀모형을 개별모형으로 갖는 경우, 오차항 대신 잔차들의 경험적 분포함수를 이용하여 구한 코플라 모수에 대한 준모수적 추정량의 성질을 살펴보았으며, 이 추정량이 일치추정량이 되기 위한 조건을 구하였다. 응용사례로 코플라-자기회귀이동평균 모형을 다루었으며, 모의실험을 통해 자기회귀 근사를 통해 얻은 잔차를 이용하여 계산한 추정량의 성질도 살펴보았다.

• 한국국방경영분석학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.114-128
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• 1996

In this paper, a life distribution fitting method based on generalized phase-type distributions(GPH) is presented. By fitting the life distribution to a GPH, we can utilize various useful properties of the GPH. Two different approaches are used according to the properties of the given failure time data. One is an approximation to a GPH through the piecewise Weibull failure rate(PWF) model and the other is a direct approximation to a GPH using the empirical distribution function. Two numerical examples are also presented. In the first example, both of the two approaches are utilized and compared for an incomplete data set. And in the second example, the direct approximation method from an empirical distribution is utilized for the analysis of a complete data set. In both cases, we could confirm the validity of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.195-205
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• 2005

In decision tree analysis, C4.5 and CART algorithm have some problems of computational complexity and bias on variable selection. But QUEST algorithm solves these problems by dividing the step of variable selection and split point selection. When input variables are continuous, QUEST algorithm uses ANOVA F-test under the assumption of normality and homogeneity of variances. In this paper, we investigate the influence of violation of normality assumption and effect of the transformation of variables in the QUEST algorithm. In the simulation study, we obtained the empirical powers of variable selection and the empirical bias of variable selection after transformation of variables having various type of underlying distributions.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.163-175
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• 2020

We consider a wide class of general weakly-dependent processes, called ψ-weak dependence, which unify almost all weak dependence structures of interest found in statistics under natural conditions on process parameters, such as mixing, association, Bernoulli shifts, and Markovian sequences. For detecting the tail behavior of the weakly dependent processes, change point tests are developed by means of cumulative sum (CUSUM) statistics with the empirical distribution functions of sample extremes. The null limiting distribution is established as a Brownian bridge. Its proof is based on the ψ-weak dependence structure and the existence of the phantom distribution function of stationary weakly-dependent processes. A Monte-Carlo study is conducted to see the performance of sizes and powers of the CUSUM tests in GARCH(1, 1) models; in addition, real data applications are given with log-returns of financial data such as the Korean stock price index.

• 한국통계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국통계학회 2002년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.1-5
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• 2002

We consider the problem of optimal bandwidth choice for nonparametric classification, based on kernel density estimators, where the problem of interest is distinguishing between two univariate distributions. When the densities intersect at a single point, optimal bandwidth choice depends on curvatures of the densities at that point. The problem of empirical bandwidth selection and classifying data in the tails of a distribution are also addressed.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.129-134
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• 2012

In this paper we review a bi-aspect nonparametric test for the two-sample problem under the location translation model and propose a new one to accommodate a more broad class of underlying distributions. Then we compare the performance of our proposed test with other existing ones by obtaining empirical powers through a simulation study. Then we discuss some interesting features related to the bi-aspect test with a comment on a possible expansion for the proposed test as concluding remarks.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.537-550
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• 2006

In this paper, we develope three modified empirical distribution function type tests, the modified Cramer-von Mises test, the modified Anderson-Darling test, and the modified Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for the two-parameter exponential distribution with unknown parameters based on multiply Type-II censored samples. For each test, Monte Carlo techniques are used to generate the critical values. The powers of these tests are also investigated under several alternative distributions.