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A PRIORI ERROR ESTIMATES FOR THE FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATION OF AN OBSTACLE PROBLEM

  • Ryoo, Cheon-Seoung
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.175-181
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this to measure, with explicit constants as small as possible, a priori error bounds for approximation by picewise polynomials. These constants play an important role in the numerical verification method of solutions for obstacle problems by using finite element methods .

Estimation of Small Area Proportions Based on Logistic Mixed Model

  • Jeong, Kwang-Mo;Son, Jung-Hyun
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.153-161
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    • 2009
  • We consider a logistic model with random effects as the superpopulation for estimating the small area pro-portions. The best linear unbiased predictor under linear mired model is popular in small area estimation. We use this type of estimator under logistic mixed motel for the small area proportions, on which the estimation of mean squared error is also discussed. Two kinds of estimation methods, the parametric bootstrap and the linear approximation will be compared through a Monte Carlo study in the respects of the normality assumption on the random effects distribution and also the magnitude of sample sizes on the approximation.

Surface Approximation Utilizing Orientation of Local Surface

  • Ko, Myeong-Cheol;Sohn, Won-Sung;Choy, Yoon-Chul
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.698-706
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    • 2003
  • The primary goal of surface approximation is to reduce the degree of deviation of the simplified surface from the original surface. However it is difficult to define the metric that can measure the amount of deviation quantitatively. Many of the existing studies analogize it by using the change of the scalar quantity before and after simplification. This approach makes a lot of sense in the point that the local surfaces with small scalar are relatively less important since they make a low impact on the adjacent areas and thus can be removed from the current surface. However using scalar value alone there can exist many cases that cannot compute the degree of geometric importance of local surface. Especially the perceptual geometric features providing important clues to understand an object, in our observation, are generally constructed with small scalar value. This means that the distinguishing features can be removed in the earlier stage of the simplification process. In this paper, to resolve this problem, we present various factors and their combination as the metric for calculating the deviation error by introducing the orientation of local surfaces. Experimental results indicate that the surface orientation has an important influence on measuring deviation error and the proposed combined error metric works well retaining the relatively high curvature regions on the object's surface constructed with various and complex curvatures.

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SOBOLEV TYPE APPROXIMATION ORDER BY SCATTERED SHIFTS OF A RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION

  • Yoon, Jung-Ho
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.23 no.1_2
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    • pp.435-443
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    • 2007
  • An important approach towards solving the scattered data problem is by using radial basis functions. However, for a large class of smooth basis functions such as Gaussians, the existing theories guarantee the interpolant to approximate well only for a very small class of very smooth approximate which is the so-called 'native' space. The approximands f need to be extremely smooth. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to study approximation by a scattered shifts of a radial basis functions. We provide error estimates on larger spaces, especially on the homogeneous Sobolev spaces.

A piecewise affine approximation of sigmoid activation functions in multi-layered perceptrons and a comparison with a quantization scheme (다중계층 퍼셉트론 내 Sigmoid 활성함수의 구간 선형 근사와 양자화 근사와의 비교)

  • 윤병문;신요안
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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    • v.35C no.2
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    • pp.56-64
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    • 1998
  • Multi-layered perceptrons that are a nonlinear neural network model, have been widely used for various applications mainly thanks to good function approximation capability for nonlinear fuctions. However, for digital hardware implementation of the multi-layere perceptrons, the quantization scheme using "look-up tables (LUTs)" is commonly employed to handle nonlinear signmoid activation functions in the neworks, and thus requires large amount of storage to prevent unacceptable quantization errors. This paper is concerned with a new effective methodology for digital hardware implementation of multi-layered perceptrons, and proposes a "piecewise affine approximation" method in which input domain is divided into (small number of) sub-intervals and nonlinear sigmoid function is linearly approximated within each sub-interval. Using the proposed method, we develop an expression and an error backpropagation type learning algorithm for a multi-layered perceptron, and compare the performance with the quantization method through Monte Carlo simulations on XOR problems. Simulation results show that, in terms of learning convergece, the proposed method with a small number of sub-intervals significantly outperforms the quantization method with a very large storage requirement. We expect from these results that the proposed method can be utilized in digital system implementation to significantly reduce the storage requirement, quantization error, and learning time of the quantization method.quantization method.

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Estimation of error variance in nonparametric regression under a finite sample using ridge regression

  • Park, Chun-Gun
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.1223-1232
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    • 2011
  • Tong and Wang's estimator (2005) is a new approach to estimate the error variance using least squares method such that a simple linear regression is asymptotically derived from Rice's lag- estimator (1984). Their estimator highly depends on the setting of a regressor and weights in small sample sizes. In this article, we propose a new approach via a local quadratic approximation to set regressors in a small sample case. We estimate the error variance as the intercept using a ridge regression because the regressors have the problem of multicollinearity. From the small simulation study, the performance of our approach with some existing methods is better in small sample cases and comparable in large cases. More research is required on unequally spaced points.

Measurement Error Variance Estimation Based on Complex Survey Data with Subsample Re-Measurements

  • Heo, Sunyeong;Eltinge, John L.
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.553-566
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    • 2003
  • In many cases, the measurement error variances may be functions of the unknown true values or related covariates. This paper considers design-based estimators of the parameters of these variance functions based on the within-unit sample variances. This paper devotes to: (1) define an error scale factor $\delta$; (2) develop estimators of the parameters of the linear measurement error variance function of the true values under large-sample and small-error conditions; (3) use propensity methods to adjust survey weights to account for possible selection effects at the replicate level. The proposed methods are applied to medical examination data from the U.S. Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III).

Simulation of Voltage and Current Distributions in Transmission Lines Using State Variables and Exponential Approximation

  • Dan-Klang, Panuwat;Leelarasmee, Ekachai
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.42-50
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    • 2009
  • A new method for simulating voltage and current distributions in transmission lines is described. It gives the time domain solution of the terminal voltage and current as well as their line distributions. This is achieved by treating voltage and current distributions as distributed state variables (DSVs) and turning the transmission line equation into an ordinary differential equation. Thus the transmission line is treated like other lumped dynamic components, such as capacitors. Using backward differentiation formulae for time discretization, the DSV transmission line component is converted to a simple time domain companion model, from which its local truncation error can be derived. As the voltage and current distributions get more complicated with time, a new piecewise exponential with controllable accuracy is invented. A segmentation algorithm is also devised so that the line is dynamically bisected to guarantee that the total piecewise exponential error is a small fraction of the local truncation error. Using this approach, the user can see the line voltage and current at any point and time freely without explicitly segmenting the line before starting the simulation.

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Restricted maximum likelihood estimation of a censored random effects panel regression model

  • Lee, Minah;Lee, Seung-Chun
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.371-383
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    • 2019
  • Panel data sets have been developed in various areas, and many recent studies have analyzed panel, or longitudinal data sets. Maximum likelihood (ML) may be the most common statistical method for analyzing panel data models; however, the inference based on the ML estimate will have an inflated Type I error because the ML method tends to give a downwardly biased estimate of variance components when the sample size is small. The under estimation could be severe when data is incomplete. This paper proposes the restricted maximum likelihood (REML) method for a random effects panel data model with a censored dependent variable. Note that the likelihood function of the model is complex in that it includes a multidimensional integral. Many authors proposed to use integral approximation methods for the computation of likelihood function; however, it is well known that integral approximation methods are inadequate for high dimensional integrals in practice. This paper introduces to use the moments of truncated multivariate normal random vector for the calculation of multidimensional integral. In addition, a proper asymptotic standard error of REML estimate is given.

A Novel Rotor Position Error Calculation Method using a Rotation Matrix for a Switching Frequency Signal Injected Sensorless Control in IPMSM (스위칭 주파수 신호 주입 IPMSM 센서리스 제어를 위한 회전 행렬 기반의 새로운 위치 오차 추정 기법)

  • Kim, Sang-Il;Kim, Rae-Young
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.402-409
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    • 2015
  • This paper proposes a novel rotor position error calculation method for high-frequency signal-injected sensorless control. The rotor position error using the conventional modulation method can be only measured up to ${\pm}45^{\circ}$. In addition, when the rotor position estimation error is not sufficiently small, the small angle approximation in no longer valid. To overcome these problems, this study introduces a new rotor position error calculation method using the rotating matrix. In this study, the position error measurement range of the proposed method is extended from ${\pm}45^{\circ}$ to ${\pm}90^{\circ}$. The linearity between the real rotor position error and the estimated error is maintained by nearly $90^{\circ}$. These features of the proposed method improve the performance of the sensorless control. The validity of the proposed method is verified by simulations and experiments.