• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.38-52
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• 2002

This paper is concerned with the analysis of structural equation model(SEM) with the ordinal data such as Likert scale. The SEM is misused when the arbitrary scores allocated to the Likert scale are treated as quantitative data. The underlying distribution approaches have been studied to solve this problem, and the partial least squares(PLS) Is also tried. In this paper the quantification methods for the Likert scale are proposed to analyze the SEM. We assume that the Likert scale is an observation of the interval of the continuous underlying distribution, and the respondents have their own patterns in the response of some questions. Normal and beta distributions as the response patterns are considered to quantify the Likert scale. To compare the efficiency of the proposed method the bootstrap simulations are tried.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.71-79
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• 1999

The comparative evaluation is the most effective method for site selection because the selection of waste treatment facility is to determine the optimum site out of limited candidate sites. This study adopted the ordinal scale evaluation, one of methods of comparative evaluation. The ordinal scale evaluation aims to determine the investigating items referring to the character of sites, to determine the importance factors for investigating items, and to determine the optimum site according to the quantitative evaluation. As a result of this study, the defects of the former reports on the environmental characteristics, such as obscurity of meaning and subjective statement, were reduced by the ordinal scale evaluation which is one of the quantitative evaluation methods. This ordinal scale evaluation method has some valuable advantages, such as, to be able to consider the cost-effect efficiency, to consider the objectiveness and the clearness of the reports on the environmental characteristics. Therefore the reducement of social complications about site selection of the indisposed facilities could be expected by this study.

• The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.15-30
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• 1996

저작은 치아, 악골, 저작근 뿐만 아니라 근 신경계, 고위 중추까지 복합적으로 관여되는 기능적 행위이다. 저작 형태는 다양한 모양을 가지나 두 가지 전형적인 군, 즉, 전방에서 관찰 시 그 양상이 수직적이며 절단 (chopping) 운동을 하는 군과 주로 측방으로 이루어지며 연마 (grinding)를 하는 군으로 나눌 수 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 저작 형태의 차이가 교합면 마모에 미치는 영향을 조사하는 것이다. 두개 하악 관절과 저작 습관에 이상이 없으며 교합면에 수복물이 없는 치과 대학생으로 하악 운동 궤적 기록기를 이용하여 상기의 전형적인 2가지 저작 형태를 보이는 각 15명씩을 피검자로 선택하였다. 각 피검자에 대한 임상 검사를 통해 ordinal scale로 교합면 마모의 등급을 조사하여, 평균 치아 마모도와 부위에 따른 치아 마모도를 비교 조사하였다. 각 피검자에 대한 인상 채득 후 모형을 제작하고 arbitrary scale로 교합면 마모의 등급을 조사하여, 평균 치아 마모도와 부위에 따른 치아 마모도를 비교 조사하고 저작측과 비저작측 마모를 비교 조사하였으며 수평 마모면과 수직 마모면을 비교 조사하였다. 1. 평균 치아 마모도는 ordinal scale로 측정하였을 때, 절단형과 연마형간에 유의할 만한 차이가 없었다.(p >0.05) 2. 부위에 따른 치아의 마모도는 ordinal scale로 측정하였을 때, 절단형과 연마형간에 유의할 만한 차이가 없었다.(p >0.05) 3. 평균 치아 마모도는 arbitrary scale로 측정하였을 때, 절단형에 비교하여 연마형에서 높은 마모도를 보였다.(p<0.05). 4. 절단형에 비교하여 연마형은 arbitrary scale로 측정하였을 때, 구치부에서는 높은 마모도를 보였으며 전치부에서는 유의할 만한 차이가 없었다(p<0.05) 5. 구치 평균 치아 마모도와 부위에 따른 치아의 마모도는 균형측에서 절단형과 연마형간에 유의할 만한 차이를 보이지 않았다(p>0.05). 6. 전치 평균 치아 마모도와 부위에 따른 치아의 마모도는 수평 마모면과 수직 마모면 비교시, 절단형과 연마형간에 유의할 만한 차이를 보이지 않았다.(p>0.05)

• The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.683-700
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• 1998

치아경조직의 소실은 반드시 치아우식증이나 사고에 의해서만 일어나는 것이 아니라 마모에 의해서도 일어난다. 마모에 영향을 미치는 인자들은 시간/나이, 성별, 이갈이와 같은 과기능, 저작력, 위장관장애, 음식물, 환경적인 영향, 타액의 상태 그리고 교합적인 조건들이 있다. 한편 중심위와 최대교두감합위 불일치가 악구강계에 미치는 영향에 관해서는 아직도 논란이 분분하다. 본 연구의 목적은 중심위와 최대교두감합위의 불일치가 치아마모에 미치는 영향과 중심위에서 제일 먼저 닿는 치아와 나머지 치아의 마모에 있어서 차이에 대해서 알아 보는 것이다. 본 연구는 두개하악관절과 저작습관에 이상이 없으며, 식이습관에 문제가 없으며 치아우식증과 치주질환, 수복물, 교정 또는 교합치료의 경험이 없는 21세에서 25세 사이의 서울대학교 치과대학생을 대상으로 하였다. 교합기를 이용하여 중심위 교합-최대교두교두감합위 불일치를 조사하여, 중심위 교합-최대교두감합위가 불일치가 작은 군과 큰 군으로 나누었다. 각 군은 각각 10명의 피검자들로 구성되었다. 각 피검자의 인상채득 후 CR mounting을 시행하고 중심위교합-최대감합위 불일치를 측정한 다음 임상검사로 ordinal scale을 측정하고 모형을 통해 arbitrary scale을 측정하였다. 평균치아마모도 그리고 중심위에서 먼저 닿는 치아와 나머지 치아, 나머지 구치의 마모도를 각각 조사하여 통계처리하였다. 1. 평균치아마모도는 ordinal scale로 측정하였을 때 중심위 교합-최대교두감합위 불일치가 작은 군과 큰 군 사이에 통계적으로 유의할만한 차이가 없었다(p>0.05) 2. 평균치아마모도는 arbitrary scale로 측정하였을 때 중심위 교합-최대교두감합위 불일치가 작은 군과 큰 군 사이에 통계적으로 유의할만한 차이가 없었다(p>0.05). 3. CR에서 먼저 닿는 치아와 나머지 치아, 나머지 구치의 마모도는 ordinal scale로 측정하였을 때 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 없었다(p>0.05). 4. CR에서 먼저 닿는 치아와 나머지 치아, 나머지 구치의 마모도는 arbitrary scale로 측정하였을 때 먼저 닿는 치아에서 통계적으로 유의한 높은 수준의 마모도를 보였다(p<0.05).

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.95-105
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• 2004

The main characteristic of the ordinal scale is that its categories have a logically or continuously ordered relationship to each other. A continuous type permits measuring degrees of differences among categories. Also, the specific amount of differences is important. In this paper we consider the scoring method using a dummy variable based on distance among categories.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.18-28
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• 2006

Some issues which should be considered in an R&D project selection problem are as follows: First, quantitative analysis on the efficiencies of R&D projects is required to guarantee objective validity in the evaluation of the projects. For this reason, the methodology for selecting R&D projects should be based on mathematical models that perform quantitative analysis. Second, in general there are ordinal factors like Likert-scale in the data for evaluating R&D projects. Previous researches, however, couldn't suggest explicit methods incorporating these ordinal factors into models. Third, for the R&D project selection problems with limited resources like budget, it is necessary to decide the perfect ranking of the all projects. This paper develops a mathematical model that can be applicable to the problems of selecting R&D projects with the previous features. In this paper, we improve the original DEA model for evaluating efficiency to incorporate ordinal factors and suggest a new model which can decide the perfect ranking of all projects by merging the improved DEA model and AHP method. Furthermore a web-based R&D project selection system using the DEA/AHP model suggested in this paper is developed and illustrated.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.243-249
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• 2017

Pain is subjective, while statistics related to pain research are objective. This review was written to help researchers involved in pain research make statistical decisions. The main issues are related with the level of scales that are often used in pain research, the choice of statistical methods between parametric or nonparametric statistics, and problems which arise from repeated measurements. In the field of pain research, parametric statistics used to be applied in an erroneous way. This is closely related with the scales of data and repeated measurements. The level of scales includes nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio scales. The level of scales affects the choice of statistics between parametric or non-parametric methods. In the field of pain research, the most frequently used pain assessment scale is the ordinal scale, which would include the visual analogue scale (VAS). There used to be another view, however, which considered the VAS to be an interval or ratio scale, so that the usage of parametric statistics would be accepted practically in some cases. Repeated measurements of the same subjects always complicates statistics. It means that measurements inevitably have correlations between each other, and would preclude the application of one-way ANOVA in which independence between the measurements is necessary. Repeated measures of ANOVA (RMANOVA), however, would permit the comparison between the correlated measurements as long as the condition of sphericity assumption is satisfied. Conclusively, parametric statistical methods should be used only when the assumptions of parametric statistics, such as normality and sphericity, are established.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.15-28
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• 1990

The purpose of this study was (1) to investigate and order the levels of parental authority concepts established by Damon, and (2) to investigate the relationship between the development of parental authority concepts and the child's age and sex. The subjects of this study were 120 children from an elementary school in Seoul. There were 40 subjects (20 males and 20 females) in each of three age groups: 8-, 10-, and 12- year-olds. The subjects were interviewed individually using Damon's(1977) open-ended questions concerning family rules. Responses to the assessment questions were coded as positive or negative, and responses to the judgement concept questions were coded into 6 levels. Statistical analysis of obtained data was by percentage, Spearman correlation using an ordinal scale, two-way analysis of variance, and Duncan test. The results showed that (1) the developmental levels of parental authority concepts established by Damon conformed to an ordinal scale, and (2) the development of parental authority concepts was related to child's age but not to child's sex.

• Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.85-94
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• 2000

The comparative evaluation is the most effective method for site selection because the selection of waste treatment facility is to determine the optimum site out of limited candidate sites. This study adopted the ordinal scale evaluation, one of methods of comparative evaluation. The ordinal scale evaluation aims to determine the investigating items referring to the character of sites, to determine the importance factors for investigating items, and to determine the optimum site according to the quantitative evaluation. This study has focussed on reflecting the opinion of residents to the maximum extent with a weight on social and economic aspects, considering the state of confrontation against each other between the autonomous government organization and local residents, which is being emerged as a social issue relating to the evaluation rating on each item of site selection of an optimum site. Therefore, rational, and clear validity investigations and proper reduction of both time and expenses in site selection as well through this a study.

• Herbal Formula Science
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.253-261
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• 2011

Objectives : The prevalence of peptic ulcer disease is estimated about 10% in Korea, and has declined due to Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy. Symptoms of peptic ulcer are postprandial epigastric pain, hunger pain, anorexia, nauea, vomiting, soreness, postprandial fullness, postparandial discomfort. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Anjungsan in the improvement of the symptoms in patients with peptic ulcer. Methods : After taking Anjungsan to patient with peptic ulcer, Examined to assess the improvemnet by Ordinal Scale VI grade and VAS. Results : Patients with symptoms of the appeal was taking Anjungsan gets better after 3 dyas appeared to be more than half. And 11 days after treatment all symptoms were improved under the VAS 1-2 except for epigastric lump sensation. Conclusions : After treatment with Anjungsan, patient showed improvement in all symptoms associated with peptic ulcer.