• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.451-456
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• 2018

The use of single component distribution to describe the irregular stand structure of degraded forest often lead to bias. Such biasness can be overcome by the application of finite mixture distribution. Therefore, in this study, finite mixture distribution was used to characterise the irregular stand structure of the Gmelina arborea plantation in Omo forest reserve. Thirty plots, ten each from the three stands established in 1984, 1990 and 2005 were used. The data were pooled per stand and fitted. Four finite mixture distributions including normal mixture, lognormal mixture, gamma mixture and Weibull mixture were considered. The method of maximum likelihood was used to fit the finite mixture distributions to the data. Model assessment was based on negative loglikelihood value ($-{\Lambda}{\Lambda}$), Akaike information criterion (AIC), Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and root mean square error (RMSE). The results showed that the mixture distributions provide accurate and precise characterisation of the irregular diameter distribution of the degraded Gmelina arborea stands. The $-{\Lambda}{\Lambda}$, AIC, BIC and RMSE values ranged from -715.233 to -348.375, 703.926 to 1433.588, 718.598 to 1451.334 and 3.003 to 7.492, respectively. Their performances were relatively the same. This approach can be used to describe other irregular forest stand structures, especially the multi-species forest.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.7-16
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• 2020

Tree size distribution modelling is an integral part of forest management. Most distribution yield systems rely on some flexible probability models. In this study, a simple finite mixture of two components two-parameter Weibull distribution was compared with complex four-parameter distributions in terms of their fitness to predict tree size distribution of teak (Tectona grandis Linn f) plantations. Also, a system of equation was developed using Seemingly Unrelated Regression wherein the size distributions of the stand were predicted. Generalized beta, Johnson's SB, Logit-Logistic and generalized Weibull distributions were the four-parameter distributions considered. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and negative log-likelihood value were used to assess the distributions. The results show that the simple finite mixture outperformed the four-parameter distributions especially in stands that are bimodal and heavily skewed. Twelve models were developed in the system of equation-one for predicting mean diameter, seven for predicting percentiles and four for predicting the parameters of the finite mixture distribution. Predictions from the system of equation are reasonable and compare well with observed distributions of the stand. This simplified mixture would allow for wider application in distribution modelling and can also be integrated as component model in stand density management diagram.

• 에너지공학
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.36-41
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• 2014

The world's overall need for natural gas (NG) has been growing up fast, especially in the residential sector. The better the estimation of residential NG consumption (RNGC) distribution, the better decision-making for a residential NG policy such as pricing, demand estimation, management options and so on. Approximating the distribution of RNGC is complicated by zero observations in the sample. To deal with the zero observations by allowing a point mass at zero, a mixture model of RNGC distributions is proposed and applied. The RNGC distribution is specified as a mixture of two distributions, one with a point mass at zero and the other with full support on the positive half of the real line. The model is empirically verified for household RNGC survey data collected in Korea. The mixture model can easily capture the common bimodality feature of the RNGC distribution. In addition, when covariates were added to the model, it was found that the probability that a household has non-expenditure significantly varies with some variables. Finally, the goodness-of-fit test suggests that the data are well represented by the mixture model.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.313-322
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 하나의 균일분포 또는 퇴화분포와 두 개의 이항분포의 혼합분포 모형에 대하여 최우추정법을 소개하며, 제시된 모형에 대하여 시뮬레이션을 통해 최우추정량의 성질을 밝히며, 실험을 통해 얻은 강의 평가 자료에 대하여 퇴화분포를 가지는 혼합분포에 대하여 적용하여 보았다. 특히 퇴화분포는 한국의 문화 특성상 가운데 값을 선호하는 현상을 모형화하는데 유용하게 사용될 수 있음을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.255-261
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• 2014

Many studies have estimated a mixture of binomial distributions. This paper considers an extension, a mixture of shifted binomial distributions, and the estimation of the distribution. The range of each component binomial distribution is rst evaluated and then for each possible value of shifted parameters, the EM algorithm is employed to estimate those parameters. From a set of possible value of shifted parameters and corresponding estimated parameters of the distribution, the likelihood of given data is determined. The simulation results verify the performance of the proposed method.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.517-530
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• 2007

We studied a modelling process for unimodal and multimodal circular data by using von Mises and its mixture distribution. In particular we suggested EM algorithm to find ML estimates of the mixture model. Simulation results showed the suggested methods are very accurate. Applications to two kinds of real data sets are also included.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.1531-1539
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• 2004

본 논문은 입술의 경계선을 효과적으로 추출하는 방법을 제안하였다. 입술 형태는 PDM(Point Distribution Model)과 주성분 분석법을 이용하여 표현하고 입술 경계선은 GLDM(Gray Level Distribution Model)을 기반으로 표현하였다 입술 경계선 추출은 모델에 대한 입력영상의 정확도에 대한 목적함수를 최적화하는 문제로 단순화하였으며, 최적화를 위해 다운힐 심플렉스(Down Hill Simplex) 알고리즘을 이용하였다. 탐색과정에서 지역 최소점으로 수렴하는 문제를 해결하기 위하여 입술 형태 모델의 형태계수를 GMM(Gaussian Mixture Model)을 이용하여 표현하였다. 형태계수에 대한 GMM을 이용하여 입술의 대략적인 형태를 찾고, 이때 사용된 mixture 성분을 이용하여 탐색과정에서 입술의 형태를 조정함으로써 지역 최소점에 수렴하여 입술의 정확한 위치를 찾지 못하는 문제점을 해결하였다. 여러 영상을 대상으로 실험하여 좋은 결과를 얻었다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제66권3호
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• pp.500-506
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• 2017

In 2014, ISO 55000s has been enacted and the power plant asset management is becoming a hot issue for all over the world. The asset management system is being developed as a combination of CBM(Condition Based Maintenance) and RCM(Reliability Centered Maintenance). Therefore, the research on the calculation of the failure rate which is the most basic index of RCM is actively carried out. The failure rate calculation has been going on for a long time, and the most widely used probability distribution is the Weibull distribution. In the Weibull distribution, the failure rate function is determined in three types according to the value of the shape parameter. However, the Weibull distribution has a limitation that it is difficult to apply it when the trend of failure rate changes-such as bathtub curves. In this paper, the failure rate is calculated using the mixture Weibull distribution which can appropriately express the change of the shape of the failure rate. Based on these results, we propose the necessity and validity of applying mixture Weibull distribution.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제52권11호
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• pp.895-904
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• 2019

극치 강우 자료는 정상성 빈도모델에서 효과적으로 구현되지 않는 비정상성 거동을 종종 보인다. 또한, 극치 사상의 확률밀도함수는 여름 장마와 태풍 등의 서로 다른 강우 패턴에 의해 2개 이상의 첨두를 가지는 혼합분포형태이다. 이러한 강우 패턴의 변화에 대해 Bayesian 이론을 활용한 비정상성 혼합분포(mixture distribution based nonstationary frequency, MDNF)모델을 제안하였다. 2개의 Gumbel 분포형이 혼합된 MDNF 모델은 Gumbel 분포형 매개변수 중 하나인 위치매개변수의 시변성을 효과적으로 설명한다. 제안한 모델의 성능평가를 위해 정상성 혼합분포모델과의 다양한 통계치 결과를 비교하였다. 정상성 혼합분포모델보다 전반적으로 향상된 성능을 보여주는 MDNF 모델을 통해 극치 강우 패턴이 비정상성을 보인다는 가정을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.223-234
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• 1997

By Stochastic simulations we discuss the fitness of a mix-ture normal distribution to observations from general mixture distribu-tions using the MLE method and the EM algorithm. We calulate the probability of misclassifying objects and estimate the optimal number of mixture components with mutual information measure.