• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.603-608
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• 2024

Nonresponse and missing values are caused by sample dropouts and avoidance of answers to surveys. In this case, problems with the possibility of information loss and biased reasoning arise, and a replacement of missing values with appropriate values is required. In this paper, as an alternative to missing values imputation, we compare several replacement methods, which use mean, linear regression, random forest, K-nearest neighbor, autoencoder and denoising autoencoder based on deep learning. These methods of imputing missing values are explained, and each method is compared by using continuous simulation data and real data. The comparison results confirm that in most cases, the performance of the random forest imputation method and the denoising autoencoder imputation method are better than the others.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.385-396
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• 2018

Competing risks are commonly encountered in biomedical research. Regression models for competing risks data can be developed based on data routinely collected in hospitals or general practices. However, these data sets usually contain the covariate missing values. To overcome this problem, multiple imputation is often used to fit regression models under a MAR assumption. Here, we introduce a multivariate imputation in a chained equations algorithm to deal with competing risks survival data. Using pseudo-observations, we make use of the available outcome information by accommodating the competing risk structure. Lastly, we illustrate the practical advantages of our approach using simulations and two data examples from a coronary artery disease data and hepatocellular carcinoma data.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.109-118
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• 2022

The data of the missing section among the vertex surface sea temperature observation data was imputed using the Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network(BiRNN). Among artificial intelligence techniques, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), which are commonly used for time series data, only estimate in the direction of time flow or in the reverse direction to the missing estimation position, so the estimation performance is poor in the long-term missing section. On the other hand, in this study, estimation performance can be improved even for long-term missing data by estimating in both directions before and after the missing section. Also, by using all available data around the observation point (sea surface temperature, temperature, wind field, atmospheric pressure, humidity), the imputation performance was further improved by estimating the imputation data from these correlations together. For performance verification, a statistical model, Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE), a machine learning-based Random Forest model, and an RNN model using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) were compared. For imputation of long-term missing for 7 days, the average accuracy of the BiRNN/statistical models is 70.8%/61.2%, respectively, and the average error is 0.28 degrees/0.44 degrees, respectively, so the BiRNN model performs better than other models. By applying a temporal decay factor representing the missing pattern, it is judged that the BiRNN technique has better imputation performance than the existing method as the missing section becomes longer.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.447-462
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• 2021

In insurance, the surrender rate is an important variable that threatens the sustainability of insurers and determines the profitability of the contract. Unlike other actuarial assumptions that determine the cash flow of an insurance contract, however, it is characterized by endogenous variables such as people's economic, social, and subjective decisions. Therefore, a microscopic approach is required to identify and analyze the factors that determine the lapse rate. Specifically, micro-level characteristics including the individual, demographic, microeconomic, and household characteristics of policyholders are necessary for the analysis. In this study, we select panel survey data of Korean Retirement Income Study (KReIS) with many diverse dimensions to determine which variables have a decisive effect on the lapse and apply the lasso regularized regression model to analyze it empirically. As the data contain many missing values, they are imputed using the random forest method. Among the household variables, we find that the non-existence of old dependents, the existence of young dependents, and employed family members increase the surrender rate. Among the individual variables, divorce, non-urban residential areas, apartment type of housing, non-ownership of homes, and bad relationship with siblings increase the lapse rate. Finally, among the financial variables, low income, low expenditure, the existence of children that incur child care expenditure, not expecting to bequest from spouse, not holding public health insurance, and expecting to benefit from a retirement pension increase the lapse rate. Some of these findings are consistent with those in the literature.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.61 no.4
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• pp.523-541
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• 2023

As accessibility to 3D printers increases, there is a growing frequency of exposure to chemicals associated with 3D printing. However, research on the toxicity and harmfulness of chemicals generated by 3D printing is insufficient, and the performance of toxicity prediction using in silico techniques is limited due to missing molecular structure data. In this study, quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) model based on data-centric AI approach was developed to predict the toxicity of new 3D printing materials by imputing missing values in molecular descriptors. First, MissForest algorithm was utilized to impute missing values in molecular descriptors of hazardous 3D printing materials. Then, based on four different machine learning models (decision tree, random forest, XGBoost, SVM), a machine learning (ML)-based QSAR model was developed to predict the bioconcentration factor (Log BCF), octanol-air partition coefficient (Log Koa), and partition coefficient (Log P). Furthermore, the reliability of the data-centric QSAR model was validated through the Tree-SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) method, which is one of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques. The proposed imputation method based on the MissForest enlarged approximately 2.5 times more molecular structure data compared to the existing data. Based on the imputed dataset of molecular descriptor, the developed data-centric QSAR model achieved approximately 73%, 76% and 92% of prediction performance for Log BCF, Log Koa, and Log P, respectively. Lastly, Tree-SHAP analysis demonstrated that the data-centric-based QSAR model achieved high prediction performance for toxicity information by identifying key molecular descriptors highly correlated with toxicity indices. Therefore, the proposed QSAR model based on the data-centric XAI approach can be extended to predict the toxicity of potential pollutants in emerging printing chemicals, chemical process, semiconductor or display process.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.167-175
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• 2023

Precipitation data is one of the essential input datasets used in various fields such as wetland management, hydrological simulation, and water resource management. In order to efficiently manage water resources using precipitation data, it is essential to secure as much data as possible by minimizing the missing rate of data. In addition, more efficient hydrological simulation is possible if precipitation data for ungauged areas are secured. However, missing precipitation data have been estimated mainly by statistical equations. The purpose of this study is to propose a new method to restore missing precipitation data using machine learning algorithms that can predict new data based on correlations between data. Moreover, compared to existing statistical methods, the applicability of machine learning techniques for restoring missing precipitation data is evaluated. Representative machine learning algorithms, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Random Forest (RF), were applied. For the performance of classifying the occurrence of precipitation, the RF algorithm has higher accuracy in classifying the occurrence of precipitation than the ANN algorithm. The F1-score and Accuracy values, which are evaluation indicators of the classification model, were calculated as 0.80 and 0.77, while the ANN was calculated as 0.76 and 0.71. In addition, the performance of estimating precipitation also showed higher accuracy in RF than in ANN algorithm. The RMSE of the RF and ANN algorithms was 2.8 mm/day and 2.9 mm/day, and the values were calculated as 0.68 and 0.73.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.320-320
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• 2023

강우 데이터는 수문기상, 환경, 농업, 자연재해, 그리고 수자원 시스템 분야에서 가장 필수적인 기본 요소 중 하나이다. 또한 강우 데이터는 수문학적 분석에서 활용되는 필수 입력 자료 중 하나로 관측 데이터의 품질에 따라 수문 모형을 이용한 모의 결과물의 정확도가 결정된다고 할 수 있다. 따라서, 강우 관측소별로 강우 데이터의 품질을 어떻게 관리하느냐에 따라 수문 모형의 활용 범위 및 수자원 관리의 효율성이 결정될 수 있다. 강우의 시공간적 변동성은 수 많은 인자들과 직간접적으로 연계되어 있기 때문에 미계측 강우 자료에 대해 직접 관측이 아닌 수치 모형을 이용하여 강우의 발생과 강우량을 산정하는 것은 매우 복잡한 과제 중 하나이다. 현재 국내에서 운용되고 있는 강우 관측소의 경우에도 미계측 된 강우 데이터가 존재함으로써 강우 데이터의 활용에 제한이 생기는 경우가 있다. 따라서, 이러한 미계측 데이터의 추정 및 보완은 보다 효과적인 수재해 방지, 수자원 관리를 위한 필수 과제 중 하나이다. 일반적으로, 미계측 강우를 산정하기 위해서 Kriging, Thiessen, 등우선법, 그리고 역거리 관측법 등 다양한 수문학적 방법들이 적용되고 있다. 이러한 방법들은 산악효과나 강우 관측소의 분포 상태 등을 고려하지 못하기 때문에 측정하는 지역에 따라 강우 추정 오차가 커질 수 있다는 한계가 있다. 최근에는 데이터 관측 시스템과 빅데이터 기술의 발전과 활용 가능한 데이터의 양이 증가함에 따라 머신러닝을 활용한 사례가 증가하고 있다. 머신러닝은 데이터 사이의 관계를 기반으로 분류, 회귀, 그리고 예측 문제에 주로 사용되는 기법 중 하나이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 광주광역시 지역에 위치한 주요 강우 관측 지점들을 대상으로 미계측 된 시강우 데이터를 추정 및 복원하고자 한다. 여기서 데이터 추정 기술이란 미계측 강우의 발생 유무 및 강우량을 추정할 수 있는 기술을 의미한다. 이를 위해 대표적인 머신러닝 알고리즘인 인공신경망(Artificial Neural Network) 및 랜덤포레스트(Random Forest)를 적용하였다.