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Practical statistics in pain research

  • Kim, Tae Kyun
    • 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.

The role of the department of statistics (大學 統計學科의 役割)

  • 백운붕
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.59-68
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    • 1994
  • The role of the department of statistics in Korea is discussed. There are more than 70 statistics departments in the universities throughout the country. However, we can hardly find that statisticians and statistical service organizations who are responsible for, for example, identifying the statistical services needed by clients in our society. In developed countries, statistics is now widely employed in all areas of societies including industry and government. Statistics and statisticians also have vital internal roles in production, research, marketing, and support functions of the modern corporation as stated by Marquardt(1987). Professors in the department of statistics are responsible for solving the problems with the discipline of statistics and with statisticians. In this article some of those problems are explored.

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A Pilot Study for Library Statistics and Indicators in Korea (한국도서관 통계 및 지표개발에 관한 기초연구)

  • Ahn, In-Ja
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.5-25
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    • 2004
  • Library statistics is used for internal decisions to know and assess library operations or for external justifications to show of how libraries meet users' needs and contribute to the organization. It is included same frameworks with social indicators and cultural indicators in national level. In this basis, national library statistics, they are ANSI/NISO Z39.7, Canada's Core library statistics, LIST of united Kingdom, are examined and Delphi method is used for new scheme of korean library statistics. As the results, it is suggested that new korean framework of library statistics is composed of 7 parts with 31 items. There are 6 parts with 21 items of social indicators or cultural indicators related to library items as well.

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A Real Problem-based Teaching Method in Statistics Education with a Web-based Data Collection Program (웹 기반 자료수집 프로그램을 활용한 실제 문제중심의 통계교육 수업방안)

  • Han, Beom-Soo;Han, Kyung-Soo;Ahn, Jeong-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.167-181
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    • 2005
  • Statistics is based on a data, therefore a practical use of suitable data is important in teaching statistics. But, most teachers feel always that there is seldom data that students can understand easily. In this study, we presented a teaching method of statistics education that can elevate student's participation and interest in their statistics class using a web-based data collection program and MS Excel software. Also, the presented teaching method may apply extending to various part of statistics education.

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Broker-Dealer Competition in the Korean Financial Securities Markets

  • Gwon, Jae-Hyun
    • The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2018
  • Purpose - This study measures how competitive securities broker-dealers are in the Korean financial markets. It aims to test whether the markets are perfectly competitive or monopolistic since the global financial crisis of 2008. Research design, data, and methodology - We apply the method developed by Panzar and Rosse (1987), H-statistics, which offers an index for the competitiveness as well as statistical tests. The dataset in use is retrieved mainly from the quarterly statements of the financial services companies by the Financial Statistics Information System of the Financial Supervisory Service. General information on officers and employees is utilized in addition to balance sheets and income statements of securities companies. Results - H-statistics for 2009-2015 is about 0.7 that is a robust estimate regardless of model specifications such as full trans-log, partial trans-log, and Cobb-Douglas regression equations. H-statistics for each year is also computed in similar ways in that it varies between 0.3 and 0.9. Conclusions - Since the global financial crisis, H-statistics concludes that securities broker-dealer markets in Korea is neither perfectly competitive nor monopolistic. It evidences that the markets are rather monopolistically competitive. The trend in annual H-statistics leads to the same conclusion but the result is not such stable that overall H-statistics implies.

The Statistical Indicators of OECD and Korea for Student Health (학생 건강에 대한 OECD와 한국의 통계지표)

  • Shin, Sun-Mi
    • Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.105-113
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the statistical indicators of OECD and Korea for student health among Korea's approval statistics. Methods: Searching for health indicators by using Health at a Glance 2009, Society at a Glance 2009, and Education at a Glance 2009 through the formal OECD web site in 2010, and investigating the approval statistics through the Korean formal organizational web sites and published data in 2012. Results: Among OECD indicators, indicators for adolescent health were smoking and alcohol consumption, nutrition, physical activity, overweight and obesity, bullying, risk behaviors, and poverty children. However, most of Korea student health indicators were missing except poverty children and life satisfaction, because OECD has taken chiefly data from Health Behavior in School-aged Children survey (HBSC), international study, which has not been carried out in Korea. The Ministry Of Education, Science And Technology (MEST) and the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and National Youth Policy Institute in Korea have produced the major statistics for student health which was only 11 (1.3%) among 858 approval statistics. Conclusion: Identifying a current Korea school health is essential through participating actively to OECD whose statistic indicators are internationally comparable with Students Physical Development Survey, MEST's approval statistics, using Korea Student Health Examination. It was also suggested that quantitative and qualitative expansions for Korea student health statistics by the activation of approval statistics including processed statistics, and by researchers' easy expanded access to a raw data.

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"Statistics is difficult"? - Textbooks problems ("통계학은 어렵다"? - 통계학교재의 문제점)

  • Lee, Wonwoo
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.1253-1262
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    • 2013
  • This study observes not only how much those who studied Statistics during the college years feel that Statistics is difficult but also why they felt it was difficult. Most of the targeted researchers, 80.8 percent, say "Statistics was difficult". They selected the item "textbooks were hard to understand" as the main reason (62.5%). Based on the explanatory survey of text books, many textbooks do not distinguish the small letter, x from the capital letter, X. Hence, in this study, one of the main reasons why most of the researchers felt Statistics was difficult must be the ambiguousness of the notations. If authors keep in mind the importance of the difference between capital letters and small letters in Statistics, the Statistics learners' recognition of difficulty of Statistics will decline.

Bayesian Estimators Using Record Statistics of Exponentiated Inverse Weibull Distribution

  • Kim, Yong-Ku;Seo, Jung-In;Kang, Suk-Bok
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.479-493
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    • 2012
  • The inverse Weibull distribution(IWD) is a complementary Weibull distribution and plays an important role in many application areas. In this paper, we develop a Bayesian estimator in the context of record statistics values from the exponentiated inverse Weibull distribution(EIWD). We obtained Bayesian estimators through the squared error loss function (quadratic loss) and LINEX loss function. This is done with respect to the conjugate priors for shape and scale parameters. The results may be of interest especially when only record values are stored.

A Study on Probability and Statistics Education in High School

  • Kang, Suk-Bok;Choi, Hui-Taeg
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.379-385
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, the probability and statistics education of the 7th high school curriculum is studied. We analyze each unit of probability and statistics in high school textbooks $\ulcorner$Mathematics 10-GA$\lrcorner$, $\ulcorner$Mathematics I$\lrcorner$, and $\ulcorner$Practical Mathematics$\lrcorner$, and then research the percentage for the unit of probability and statistics for all textbooks. We also investigate the proportion for the number of students who select each subject of mathematics of the national academic aptitude tests for university admission in 2005 and 2006.

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