• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.1091-1102
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• 2003

The Weibull variate is commonly used as a lifetime distribution in reliability applications. Estimation of parameters is revisited in the two-parameter Weibull distribution. The method of product spacings, the method of quantile estimates and the method of least squares are applied to this distribution. A comparative study between a simple minded estimate, the maximum likelihood estimate, the product spacings estimate, the quantile estimate, the least squares estimate, and the adjusted least squares estimate is presented.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.309-316
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• 2010

Support vector quantile regression (SVQR) is capable of providing more complete description of the linear and nonlinear relationships among response and input variables. In this paper we propose a weighted SVQR for the longitudinal data. Furthermore, we introduce the generalized approximate cross validation function to select the hyperparameters which affect the performance of SVQR. Experimental results are the presented, which illustrate the performance of the proposed SVQR.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.753-764
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• 2008

The $L_1$ regularized estimator in quantile problems conduct parameter estimation and model selection simultaneously and have been shown to enjoy nice performance. However, $L_1$ regularized estimator has a drawback: when there are several highly correlated variables, it tends to pick only a few of them. To make up for it, the proposed method adopts doubly regularized framework with the mixture of $L_1$ and $L_2$ norms. As a result, the proposed method can select significant variables and encourage the highly correlated variables to be selected together. One of the most appealing features of the new algorithm is to construct the entire solution path of doubly regularized quantile estimator. From simulations and real data analysis, we investigate its performance.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.285-296
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• 2014

The quantile residual life function has been effectively used to interpret results from the analysis of the proportional hazards model for censored survival data; however, the quantile residual life function is not always estimable with currently available semi-parametric regression methods in the presence of heavy censoring. A parametric regression approach may circumvent the difficulty of heavy censoring, but parametric assumptions on a baseline hazard function can cause a potential bias. This article proposes a Bayesian semi-parametric regression approach for inference on an unknown baseline hazard function while adjusting for available covariates. We consider a model-based approach but the proposed method does not suffer from strong parametric assumptions, enjoying a closed-form specification of the parametric regression approach without sacrificing the flexibility of the semi-parametric regression approach. The proposed method is applied to simulated data and heavily censored survival data to estimate various quantile residual lifetimes and adjust for important prognostic factors.

• 한국조사연구학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국조사연구학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.67-83
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• 2006

In successive sampling on two occasions the problem of estimating a finite population quantile has been considered. The theory developed aims at providing the optimum estimates by combining (i) three double sampling estimators viz. ratio-type, product-type and regression-type, from the matched portion of the sample and (ii) a simple quantile based on a random sample from the unmatched portion of the sample on the second occasion. The approximate variance formulae of the suggested estimators have been obtained. Optimal matching fraction is discussed. A simulation study is carried out in order to compare the three estimators and direct estimator. It is found that the performance of the regression-type estimator is the best among all the estimators discussed here.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.165-170
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• 2011

Support vector quantile regression(SVQR) is capable of providing a good description of the linear and nonlinear relationships among random variables. In this paper we propose a sparse SVQR to overcome a limitation of SVQR, nonsparsity. The asymmetric e-insensitive loss function is used to efficiently provide sparsity. The experimental results are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed method by comparing it with nonsparse SVQR.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.543-556
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• 2007

In successive sampling on two occasions the problem of estimating a finite population quantile has been considered. The theory developed aims at providing the optimum estimates by combining (i) three double sampling estimators viz. ratio-type, product-type and regression-type, from the matched portion of the sample and (ii) a simple quantile based on a random sample from the unmatched portion of the sample on the second occasion. The approximate variance formulae of the suggested estimators have been obtained. Optimal matching fraction is discussed. A simulation study is carried out in order to compare the three estimators and direct estimator. It is found that the performance of the regression-type estimator is the best among all the estimators discussed here.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.749-756
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• 2012

소지역 추정을 위해 널리 사용되고 있는 방법 중 하나는 선형혼합효과모형이다. 그러나 종속변수와 독립변수 사이의 관계가 비선형일 때 이 모형은 소지역 관련 모수에 대해 편의된 추정값을 초래한다. 본 논문에서는 M-분위수 커널회귀를 사용하여 소지역의 평균을 추정하는 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 모의실험을 통하여 서포트벡터분위수회귀와 성능을 비교함으로써 제안된 방법의 우수성을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.677-684
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• 2014

Support vector quantile regression (SVQR) is capable of providing more complete description of the linear and nonlinear relationships among random variables. To improve the estimation performance of SVQR we propose to use SVQR ensemble with bagging (bootstrap aggregating), in which SVQRs are trained independently using the training data sets sampled randomly via a bootstrap method. Then, they are aggregated to obtain the estimator of the quantile regression function using the penalized objective function composed of check functions. Experimental results are then presented, which illustrate the performance of SVQR ensemble with bagging.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.519-544
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• 2016

This paper examines quantile dependence and directional predictability between the foreign exchange market and the stock market in Korea. Instead of adopting a multivariate model such as a vector autoregressive model, a multivariate GARCH model or a combination of both models, we apply the cross-quantilogram recently proposed by Han et al. (2016). Considering various quantile ranges, we investigate various spillover effects between two markets. Our findings show that there exists an asymmetric bi-directional spillover between two markets and the interdependence between two markets implies that one market has significant predictive power on the other.