• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
• /
• 제33권4호
• /
• pp.401-410
• /
• 2004

We address the problem of parameter estimation in multivariate distributions under ignorable non-monotone missing data. The factoring likelihood method for monotone missing data, termed by Rubin (1974), is extended to a more general case of non-monotone missing data. The proposed method is algebraically equivalent to the Newton-Raphson method for the observed likelihood, but avoids the burden of computing the first and the second partial derivatives of the observed likelihood. Instead, the maximum likelihood estimates and their information matrices for each partition of the data set are computed separately and combined naturally using the generalized least squares method.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
• /
• 제11권1호
• /
• pp.20-25
• /
• 2009

The maximum likelihood detection with QR decomposition and M-algorithm (QRM-MLD) has been presented as a suboptimum multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detection scheme which can provide almost the same performance as the optimum maximum likelihood (ML) MIMO detection scheme but with the reduced complexity. However, due to the lack of parallelism and the regularity in the decoding structure, the conventional QRM-MLD which uses the tree-structure still has very high complexity for the very large scale integration (VLSI) implementation. In this paper, we modify the tree-structure of conventional QRM-MLD into trellis-structure in order to obtain high operational parallelism and regularity and then apply the Viterbi algorithm to the QRM-MLD to ease the burden of the VLSI implementation.We show from our selected numerical examples that, by using the QRM-MLD with our proposed trellis-structure, we can reduce the complexity significantly compared to the tree-structure based QRM-MLD while the performance degradation of our proposed scheme is negligible.

• 한국통신학회논문지
• /
• 제32권5A호
• /
• pp.484-489
• /
• 2007

OFDM(orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) 시스템은 시간 동기 및 주파수 옵셋 추정 오차에 따라 시스템 성능이 좌우된다. 본 논문에서는, OFDM을 기반으로 한 디지털 비디오 방송(digital video broadcasting) 시스템을 위한 향상된 정수배 주파수 옵셋 추정 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 정수배 주파수 옵셋 추정기는 기존의 ML 추정기에 다단계 추정 방법을 적용하여 개선한 방법이다. 실험 결과를 통해, 제안된 주파수 옵셋 추정 방법이 기존의 ML 추정기에 비해 적은 연산량으로 향상된 주파수 옵셋 추정 성능을 가진다.

• 국제물리치료학회지
• /
• 제2권1호
• /
• pp.222-228
• /
• 2011

With comparison of maximum vertical reaction force and lower limb on drop landing between normal and flat foot group, this study is to provide fundamental data of the prevention of injury and the treatment of exercise which are frequently occurred on flat foot group's drop landing. The surface electrodes were sticked on lateral gastrocnemius muscle, medial gastrocnemius muscle, tibialis anterior and the drop landing on a force plate of 40cm was performed with a normal group who had no musculoskeletal disease and a flat foot group of 9 people who had feet examinations. Vertical reaction force were significantly statistically different between two groups(p<.001). Muscle activity of lower limbs in all three parts were not statistically different but showed high tendency on average in the flat foot group. The flat foot group had difficulties in diversification of impact burden and high muscle activity. Therefore, it was suggested that muscular strengthening of knee joints and plantar flexions of foot joints which were highly affected in impact absorption will be required.

• 한국항해항만학회지
• /
• 제33권1호
• /
• pp.1-7
• /
• 2009

항행속력규제는 통항안전성을 확보하기 위한 중요한 요소로서, 지금까지는 최고속력규제에 대하여만 연구 검토되어지고 있다. 최근 우리나라 항만에서는 중량물 운반용 예부선 등을 포함한 저속 항행선박으로 인하여 선박운항자의 위험부담감은 점점 증가하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 저속선박에 대한 최저속력 규제의 필요여부와 교통용량별 적정 최저속력을 산출하여 제안하였다. 이 연구의 구체적인 결과는 다음과 같다. (1) 시간당 통항척수가 5척의 경우에 최저속력을 5kts 이상으로 설정하면 속력규제 효과가 높다 (2) 시간당 통항척수가 10척 이상의 경우에 최저속력을 7kts로 설정하여야 속력규제 효과가 다소 있다 (3) 반면에, 통항척수가 많은 해역에서는 상대속력차가 적은 선박이 다수 발생하여, 선박 간 좁은 이격거리로 장시간 항행하여야 하므로 최저속력규제의 효과가 없는 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국안전학회지
• /
• 제34권1호
• /
• pp.90-97
• /
• 2019

This study is aiming to compare stair ascent transportation speed and physical burden of evacuation supporters according to the types of stair ascent transportation for vulnerable people experimentally. In this study, we measured heart rate of the supporters to indicate physical burden during the transportation. The subjects of this experiment were male students, age of 20-26. Experimental conditions were the ways of stair transportation and the weight of vulnerable people. The types of stair transportation were giving a piggyback ride and carrying a wheelchair. Each experimental trial was video-recorded for measurement of ascent speed and observing supporters movement. As a result of the experiment, as for the ascent transportation speed by piggyback ride from the first floor to the fourth floor, the average speed of the light case is 31 seconds and for the heavy case is 43 seconds. When it comes to the average speed of wheelchair transportation's average speed the light case is 1 minute and 11 seconds and the heavy case is 1 minute and 49 seconds. Therefore, it was indicated that when the weight of a vulnerable people is lighter, the transportation speed is faster. The heart rates of evacuation supporters are different depending on transportation methods or individual's condition but as repetitive transportation increases, they tend to reach the maximum heart rates.

• 전자공학회논문지S
• /
• 제35S권7호
• /
• pp.72-85
• /
• 1998

In this paper, we propose a new method that sequentially estimates TDOA(Time Delay Of Arrival) and FDOA(Frequency Delay Of Arrival) for extracting the information about the bearing and relative velocity of a target in passive radar or sonar arrays. The objective is to efficiently estimate the TDOA and FDOA between two sensor signal measurements, corrupted by correlated Gaussian noise sources in an unknown way. The proposed method utilizes the one dimensional slice function of the third order cumulants between the two sensor measurements, by which the effect of correlated Gaussian measurement noises can be significantly suppressed for the estimation of TDOA. Because the proposed sequential algoritjhm uses the one dimensional complex ambiguity function based on the TDOA estimate from the first step, the amount of computations needed for accurate estimationof FDOA can be dramatically reduced, especially for the cases where high frequency resolution is required. It is demonstrated that the proposed algorithm outperforms existing TDOA/FDOA estimation algorithms based on the ML(maximum likelihood) criterionandthe complex ambiguity function of the third order cumulant as well, in the MSE(mean squared error) sense and computational burden. Various numerical resutls on the detection probability, MSE and the floatingpoint computational burden are presented via Monte-Carlo simulations for different types of noises, different lengths of data, and different signal-to-noise ratios.

• 보건행정학회지
• /
• 제30권1호
• /
• pp.72-81
• /
• 2020

Background: The out-of-pocket maximum is one of the distinctive healthcare systems which sets a ceiling on co-payment in order to reduce the burden of households from the unpredictable medical expenditure. However, this leads to an increase in the demand for healthcare services especially in long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) in Korea. Methods: This study analyzed the influence factor of medical service overuse of 165,592 inpatients in LTCHs which out-of-pocket maximum is applied, by utilizing data from the National Health Insurance Service (2016). Based on Anderson Model, the medical service overuse, as a dependent variable, was defined as long-stay admission more than 180 days at the LTCHs. Independent variable was comprised of predisposing factors (gender, age), enabling factors (income level, types of out-of-pocket maximum) and need factors (illness level, patient use of tertiary hospital). Results: The most powerful factor of medical service overuse in LTCHs was availability of pre-payment for the out-of-maximum (odds ratio [OR], 191.66; p<0.001). This tendency was found in high income level status (p<0.001). Furthermore, mild inpatients (OR, 1.50; p<0.001) which had no experience with the tertiary hospitals (OR, 2.06; p<0.001) were more relevant to the medical service overuse in LTCHs, compared to the severe inpatients. Conclusion: It is suggested that a separate standard of out-of pocket maximum with regards to LTCHs is required to secure the beneficial functions of long-term hospitals and prevent unnecessary financial leakage to achieve sustainable and financially sound National Health Insurance.

• 한국음향학회지
• /
• 제20권8호
• /
• pp.58-66
• /
• 2001

본논문에서는 LFM (Linear Frequency Modulated) 신호를 사용하는 능동소나에서 적은 연산량으로 표적반사신호의 시간지연과 도플러를 추정하는 기법을 제안하였다. 제안한 기법에서는 일반적인 추정기법들이 가지는 연산량의 문제를 해결하기 위해 LFM 신호의 상호모호함수 (cross ambiguity function)에서 시간지연과 도플러의 관계를 나타내는 대수적인 관계식을 이용하였다. FML (Fast Maximum Likelihood) 기법을 기반으로 하여 시간지연과 도플러의 대수적 관계식을 유도하였으며, 이를 이용하여 일반적인 2차원 탐색 대신 2번의 1차원 탐색으로 시간지연과 도플러를 추정하였다. 다양한 신호대 잡음비 (SNR)에서 제안한 알고리즘의 추정오차를 분석하였으며, 제안한 알고리즘이 우수한 추정 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
• /
• 제18권6호
• /
• pp.1805-1818
• /
• 2018

This paper proposes a novel hybrid maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm combining a Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) and the conventional Perturb & Observation (P&O) to track/extract the highest amount of power from a solar photovoltaic (SPV) system working under partial shading conditions (PSCs). The proposed hybrid algorithm is based on a WOA which predicts the initial global peak (GP) and is followed by P&O in the final stage to achieve a quicker convergence to a GP. Thus, this hybrid algorithm overcomes the computational burden encountered in a standalone WOA, grey wolf optimization (GWO) and hybrid GWO reported in the literature. The conventional algorithm searches for the maximum power point (MPP) in the predicted region by the WOA. The proposed MPPT technique is modelled and simulated using MATLAB/Simulink for simulating an environment to check its effectiveness in accurately tracking the MPP during the GP region. This hybrid algorithm is compared with a standalone WOA, GWO and hybrid GWO. From the simulating results, it is shown that the proposed algorithm offers high tracking performance and that it increases the output power level of a SPV system under partial shading. The algorithm also verified experimentally on various PSCs.