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Test Statistics for Volume under the ROC Surface and Hypervolume under the ROC Manifold

  • Hong, Chong Sun;Cho, Min Ho
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.377-387
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    • 2015
  • The area under the ROC curve can be represented by both Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon rank sum statistics. Consider an ROC surface and manifold equal to three dimensions or more. This paper finds that the volume under the ROC surface (VUS) and the hypervolume under the ROC manifold (HUM) could be derived as functions of both conditional Mann-Whitney statistics and conditional Wilcoxon rank sum statistics. The nullhypothesis equal to three distribution functions or more are identical can be tested using VUS and HUM statistics based on the asymptotic large sample theory of Wilcoxon rank sum statistics. Illustrative examples with three and four random samples show that two approaches give the same VUS and $HUM^4$. The equivalence of several distribution functions is also tested with VUS and $HUM^4$ in terms of conditional Wilcoxon rank sum statistics.

Simulation studies to compare bayesian wavelet shrinkage methods in aggregated functional data

  • Alex Rodrigo dos Santos Sousa
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.311-330
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    • 2023
  • The present work describes simulation studies to compare the performances in terms of averaged mean squared error of bayesian wavelet shrinkage methods in estimating component curves from aggregated functional data. Five bayesian methods available in the literature were considered to be compared in the studies: The shrinkage rule under logistic prior, shrinkage rule under beta prior, large posterior mode (LPM) method, amplitude-scale invariant Bayes estimator (ABE) and Bayesian adaptive multiresolution smoother (BAMS). The so called Donoho-Johnstone test functions, logit and SpaHet functions were considered as component functions and the scenarios were defined according to different values of sample size and signal to noise ratio in the datasets. It was observed that the signal to noise ratio of the data had impact on the performances of the methods. An application of the methodology and the results to the tecator dataset is also done.

Distribution Functions Describing the Microbiological Contamination of Seasoned Soybean Sprouts

  • Park, Jin-Pyo;Lee, Dong-Sun;Paik, Hyun-Dong
    • Food Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.659-663
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    • 2008
  • Different statistical distribution functions were examined to find an adequate distribution function to describe the microbial contamination behavior of a Korean side dish product, seasoned soybean sprouts for different seasons and market groups. The triang distribution was the best for any market groups in winter, while the logistic distribution could describe the microbial contamination in log CFU/g for all the market groups in spring and summer. From parametric bootstrapping based on the fitted distributions, it was found that a normal distribution could describe the distribution of mean microbial count in log CFU/g for all the seasons and market groups. Statistical parameters for each season/market group are presented to estimate the confidence interval.

Analysis of bivariate recurrent event data with zero inflation

  • Kim, Taeun;Kim, Yang-Jin
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.37-46
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    • 2020
  • Recurrent event data frequently occur in clinical studies, demography, engineering reliability and so on (Cook and Lawless, The Statistical Analysis of Recurrent Events, Springer, 2007). Sometimes, two or more different but related type of recurrent events may occur simultaneously. In this study, our interest is to estimate the covariate effect on bivariate recurrent event times with zero inflations. Such zero inflation can be related with susceptibility. In the context of bivariate recurrent event data, furthermore, such susceptibilities may be different according to the type of event. We propose a joint model including both two intensity functions and two cure rate functions. Bivariate frailty effects are adopted to model the correlation between recurrent events. Parameter estimates are obtained by maximizing the likelihood derived under a piecewise constant hazard assumption. According to simulation results, the proposed method brings unbiased estimates while the model ignoring cure rate models gives underestimated covariate effects and overestimated variance estimates. We apply the proposed method to a set of bivariate recurrent infection data in a study of child patients with leukemia.

Weighted Support Vector Machines with the SCAD Penalty

  • Jung, Kang-Mo
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.481-490
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    • 2013
  • Classification is an important research area as data can be easily obtained even if the number of predictors becomes huge. The support vector machine(SVM) is widely used to classify a subject into a predetermined group because it gives sound theoretical background and better performance than other methods in many applications. The SVM can be viewed as a penalized method with the hinge loss function and penalty functions. Instead of $L_2$ penalty function Fan and Li (2001) proposed the smoothly clipped absolute deviation(SCAD) satisfying good statistical properties. Despite the ability of SVMs, they have drawbacks of non-robustness when there are outliers in the data. We develop a robust SVM method using a weight function with the SCAD penalty function based on the local quadratic approximation. We compare the performance of the proposed SVM with the SVM using the $L_1$ and $L_2$ penalty functions.

Applications of R package for statistical engineering (통계공학을 위한 R 패키지 응용)

  • Jang, Dae-Heung
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.87-105
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    • 2020
  • Statistical engineering contains the design of experiments, quality control/management, and reliability engineering. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics that is supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. R package has many functions and libraries for statistical engineering. We can use R package as a useful tool for statistical engineering. This paper shows the applications of R package for statistical engineering and suggests a R Task View for statistical engineering.

Piecewise Linear Fuzzy Random Variables and their Statistical Application

  • WATANABE, Norio;IMAIZUMI, Tadashi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 1998.06a
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    • pp.696-700
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    • 1998
  • Fuzzy random variables with piecewise linear membership functions are introduced from a practical viewpoint. The estimation of the expected values of these fuzzy random variables is also discussed and statistical application is denonstratied by using a real data set.

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Distribution of Votaw's $\lambda_1$(mvc) Criterion

  • Nagar, D.K.;Gupta, A.K.
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.303-323
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    • 1994
  • In this paper, distribution of Votaw's $\lambda_1$(mvc) criterion has been obtained using inverse Mellin transform, residue theorem and properties of special functions.

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Accelerated Sequential Procedure to Estimate the Mean of Unknown Distribution

  • Son, M.S.;Hamdy, H.I.
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.367-376
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    • 1997
  • Consider the accelerated sequential procedure of Hall(1983). Second order asymptotic expression of well behaved functions of the stopping variable. The results is demonstrated by working out several point and interval estimation problems.

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Jackknife Estimation of the Coefficient of Variation in the Pareto Distribution

  • Woo, Jung-Soo;Kang, Suk-Bok
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.42-47
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    • 1984
  • In this paper, the means of the estimators for the coefficient of variation (CV) in an underlying Pareto distribution are expressed in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions. The numericla values of the biases for the CV estimators in the Pareto distribution are also obtained.

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