• 응용통계연구
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.331-343
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 군집 구간중도절단된 자료에서 생존시간이 군집의 크기에 의존할 때 주변모형으로부터 가중 추정 방법과 군집 내 재추출 방법을 써서 모수를 추정하고 그 추정량의 점근적 성질을 살펴보았다. 모의실험을 통해 추정량의 편향의 크기와 신뢰구간의 포함율 측면에서 볼 때 제안한 두 추정 방법이 생존시간과 군집의 크기 간의 종속 관계를 무시한 방법보다 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 제안한 추정 방법을 림프성 사상충 자료에 적용한 결과에 따르면 서로 다른 두 치료방법이 유의하게 다르지 않았으며 나이 효과도 매우 유의하지 않은 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.1573-1582
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• 2015

In lifetime data analysis, it is generally known that the lifetimes of test items may not be recorded exactly. There are also situations wherein the withdrawal of items prior to failure is prearranged in order to decrease the time or cost associated with experience. Moreover, it is generally known that more than one cause or risk factor may be present at the same time. Therefore, analysis of censored competing risks data are needed. In this article, we derive the Bayes estimators for the entropy function under the exponential distribution with an unknown scale parameter based on multiply Type II censored competing risks data. The Bayes estimators of entropy function for the exponential distribution with multiply Type II censored competing risks data under the squared error loss function (SELF), precautionary loss function (PLF) and DeGroot loss function (DLF) are provided. Lindley's approximate method is used to compute these estimators.We compare the proposed Bayes estimators in the sense of the mean squared error (MSE) for various multiply Type II censored competing risks data. Finally, a real data set has been analyzed for illustrative purposes.

• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.56-63
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to point out that the Kaplan-Meier method is not valid to calculate the survival probability or failure probability (risk) in the presence of competing risks and to introduce more valid method of cumulative incidence function. Methods: Survival analysis methods have been widely used in biostatistics division. However the same methods have not been utilized in reliability division. Especially competing risks cases, where several causes of failure occur and the occurrence of one event precludes the occurrence of the other events, are scattered in reliability field. But they are not noticed in the realm of reliability expertism or they are analysed in the wrong way. Specifically Kaplan-Meier method which assumes that the censoring times and failure times are independent is used to calculate the probability of failure in the presence of competing risks, thereby overestimating the real probability of failure. Hence, cumulative incidence function is introduced and sample competing risks data are analysed using cumulative incidence function and some graphs. Finally comparison of cumulative incidence functions and regression type analysis are mentioned briefly. Results: Cumulative incidence function is used to calculate the survival probability or failure probability (risk) in the presence of competing risks and some useful graphs depicting the failure trend over the lifetime are introduced. Conclusion: This paper shows that Kaplan-Meier method is not appropriate for the evaluation of survival or failure over the course of lifetime. In stead, cumulative incidence function is shown to be useful. Some graphs using the cumulative incidence functions are also shown to be informative.

• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.19-35
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• 2012

This paper presents an optimum design of step-stress partially accelerated life test (PALT) plan which allows the test condition to be changed from use to accelerated condition on the occurrence of fixed number of failures. Various life distribution models such as exponential, Weibull, log-logistic, Burr type-Xii, etc have been used in the literature to analyze the PALT data. The need of different life distribution models is necessitated as in the presence of a limited source of data as typically occurs with modern devices having high reliability, the use of correct life distribution model helps in preventing the choice of unnecessary and expensive planned replacements. Truncated distributions arise when sample selection is not possible in some sub-region of sample space. In this paper it is assumed that the lifetimes of the items follow Truncated Logistic distribution truncated at point zero since time to failure of an item cannot be negative. Optimum step-stress PALT plan that finds the optimal proportion of units failed at normal use condition is determined by using the D-optimality criterion. The method developed has been explained using a numerical example. Sensitivity analysis and comparative study have also been carried out.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.761-769
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• 2018

통계학 연구에 모의실험이 중요하게 쓰이며 중도절단자료를 다루는 생존분석에서도 마찬가지다. 생존분석에서 Cox 모형이 널리 쓰이는데, Cox 모형을 따르는 중도절단자료를 생성하는 방법에 대해 살펴보았다. Bender 등 (Statistics in Medicine, 24, 1713-1723, 2005)은 생존시간을 생성하는 모수적 방법을 제시하였으나 생존시간뿐만 아니라 중도절단시간도 생성해야 중도절단자료를 얻게 된다. 중도절단자료를 생성하기 위한 모수적 방법과 함께 비모수적 방법도 제시하였으며 실제 자료에도 적용해 보았다.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.431-443
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• 2019

Goodness-of-fit techniques are an important topic in statistical analysis. Censored data occur frequently in survival experiments; therefore, many studies are conducted when data are censored. In this paper we mainly consider test statistics based on the empirical distribution function (EDF) to test normal distributions with unknown location and scale parameters when data are randomly censored. The most famous EDF test statistic is the Kolmogorov-Smirnov; in addition, the quadratic statistics such as the $Cram{\acute{e}}r-von$ Mises and the Anderson-Darling statistic are well known. The $Cram{\acute{e}}r-von$ Mises statistic is generalized to randomly censored cases by Koziol and Green (Biometrika, 63, 465-474, 1976). In this paper, we generalize the Anderson-Darling statistic to randomly censored data using the Kaplan-Meier estimator as it was done by Koziol and Green. A simulation study is conducted under a particular censorship model proposed by Koziol and Green. Through a simulation study, the generalized Anderson-Darling statistic shows the best power against almost all alternatives considered among the three EDF statistics we take into account.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.187-193
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• 2021

In order to solve the problem of false terrains caused by environmental interferences and tunneling effect in the conventional multi-beam seafloor terrain detection, this paper proposed a seafloor topography detection method based on fast two-dimensional (2D) Censored Mean Level Detector-statistics Constant False Alarm Rate (CMLD-CFAR) method. The proposed method uses s cross-sliding window. The target occlusion phenomenon that occurs in multi-target environments can be eliminated by censoring some of the large cells of the reference cells, while the remaining reference cells are used to calculate the local threshold. The conventional 2D CMLD-CFAR methods need to estimate the background clutter power level for every pixel, thus increasing the computational burden significantly. In order to overcome this limitation, the proposed method uses a fast algorithm to select the Regions of Interest (ROI) based on a global threshold, while the rest pixels are distinguished as clutter directly. The proposed method is verified by experiments with real multi-beam data. The results show that the proposed method can effectively solve the problem of false terrain in a multi-beam terrain survey and achieve a high detection accuracy.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.389-402
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• 2023

Multivariate or clustered failure time data often occur in many medical, epidemiological, and socio-economic studies when survival data are collected from several research centers. If the data are periodically observed as in a longitudinal study, survival times are often subject to various types of interval-censoring, creating multivariate interval-censored data. Then, the event times of interest may be correlated among individuals who come from the same cluster. In this article, we propose a unified linear regression method for analyzing multivariate interval-censored data. We consider a semiparametric multivariate accelerated failure time model as a statistical analysis tool and develop a generalized Buckley-James method to make inferences by imputing interval-censored observations with their conditional mean values. Since the study population consists of several heterogeneous clusters, where the subjects in the same cluster may be related, we propose a generalized estimating equations approach to accommodate potential dependence in clusters. Our simulation results confirm that the proposed estimator is robust to misspecification of working covariance matrix and statistical efficiency can increase when the working covariance structure is close to the truth. The proposed method is applied to the dataset from a diabetic retinopathy study.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.559-577
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• 2003

상수원이 오염되고 수돗물 수질을 불신함에 따라 이에 대한 방어적 지출로서 생수 및 정수기에 대한 지출이 늘어나고 있다. 이러한 두 가지 지출자료를 분석하기 위해서는 세 가지 중요한 측면을 고려해야 한다. 즉, 지출에 있어서 영의 자료가 많이 관측되며, 두 가지 지출이 서로 상호종속적일 수 있고, 또 내생적으로 함께 결정될 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이변량 토빗 연립방정식 분석을 통해 영의 관측치, 상호종속성, 내생성의 문제를 명시적으로 다루고자 한다. 1997년 서울에서 수집된 가구서베이 자료를 이용하여 두 가지 지출함수의 모수들을 추정한다. 분석결과, 두 지출간에 상호종속성이 발견되었으며, 한 가지 지출변수는 다른 지출함수에서 통계적으로 유의하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서 이용된 이변량 토빗 연립방정식 모형은 생수 및 정수기 소비지출 자료의 분석에 적합하다고 판단된다. 마지막으로 지출의 소득 탄력성 및 가구크기 탄력성 추정치도 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 Buckley와 James의 방법을 이용하여 중도절단된 자료를 보완한 조건부생존함수 추정량으로부터 조건부평균잔여수명함수를 추정하는 방법을 제안하고, 모의실험을 통하여 제안된 방법의 효율성을 평가하였다. 모의실험 결과 비례위험모형이 아닌 경우 제안된 방법으로 추정한 조건부 평균잔여수명함수의 평균제곱오차가 Cox모형이나 Beran의 비모수적 방법을 이용하여 구한 추정치의 평균제곱오차보다 작게 나타났으며, 비례위험모형인 경우에는 제안된 방법으로 추정한 결과들이 Cox 모형을 이용하여 얻은 결과들과 비슷하게 나타났다. 또한 K대학교병원 외과에서 위암 수술을 받은 1,192명의 환자 자료를 이용하여 제안된 방법의 임상적 적용의 적절성을 평가하였다.