• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.559-587
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to derive implications for the development of the next curriculum and textbooks by comparing and analyzing the textbooks of the 2015 revised high school mathematics curriculum <Mathematics for Economics> and social studies curriculum <Economics>. In the <Mathematics for Economics> textbooks, economic terms and function notations should be introduced. Additionally, the use of graphs for economic-related functions is different from the use of graphs in mathematics in the <Mathematics for Economics> textbooks. For these reasons, the usage of economic terms, function notations, and function graphs covered in the <Mathematics for Economics> textbooks were compared and analyzed with the usage in the <Economics> textbooks. In the <Mathematics for Economics> textbooks, economic terms that are highly related to mathematics are defined and presented. Contrary to the conventions of mathematics and economics, the function notations in the <Mathematics for Economics> textbooks were used inconsistently because uppercase and lowercase letters were mixed in the function notations. Function graphs in the <Mathematics for Economics> textbooks had differences in the range of values represented by the variables regarding axes and scaling. The <Mathematics for Economics> textbooks did not provide a mathematical interpretation of the translation or slope. In the course of <Mathematics for Economics>, it is necessary to specify considerations for teaching and learning, and assessment in the curriculum to promote students' understanding of mathematics and economics. The descriptions in the curriculum document and textbooks of <Mathematics for Economics> should be supplemented to provide learning opportunities for mathematical interpretation of economics-related contents.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.3
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• pp.271-276
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• 2002

The test statistic in ANOVA tests has a single or doubly noncentral F distribution and the noncentral F distribution is applied to the calculation of the power functions of tests of general linear hypotheses. Although various approximations of noncentral F distribution are suggested, they are troublesome to compute. In this paper, the calculation of noncentral F distribution is applied to the neural network theory, to solve the computation problem. The neural network consists of the multi-layer perceptron structure and learning process has the algorithm of the backpropagation. Using fables and figs, comparisons are made between the results obtained by neural network theory and the Patnaik's values. Regarding of accuracy and calculation, the results by neural network are efficient than the Patnaik's values.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.60-65
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a new exponential pulse shaping function based on Chebychev identity equation and Bessel coefficients. The proposed pulse shaping function can produce various pulses with the different characteristics in the time and frequency domain by changing its two parameters. By differentiating the exponential pulse shaping function, we obtain new different pulse functions, in which the even order derivatives of the exponential pulse shaping function are orthogonal to its odd order derivatives. To find the efficiency of the proposed exponential pulse shaping function we analyze its essential characteristics and compare them with those of the conventional Gaussian pulses. We can choose the most suitable exponential pulse waveform according to the design criteria of communication systems.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.115-122
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• 2012

We present here a new class of activation functions for neural networks, which herein will be called CosGauss function. This function is a cosine-modulated gaussian function. In contrast to the sigmoidal-, hyperbolic tangent- and gaussian activation functions, more ridges can be obtained by the CosGauss function. It will be proven that this function can be used to aproximate polynomials and step functions. The CosGauss function was tested with a Cascade-Correlation-Network of the multilayer structure on the Tic-Tac-Toe game and iris plants problems, and results are compared with those obtained with other activation functions.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.885-893
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• 2015

It is important to improve the forecasting accuracy of one-year-ahead seasonal factors in order to produce seasonally adjusted series of the following year. In this paper, seasonal factors of 8 monthly Korean economic time series are examined and forecast based on the functional principal component regression. One-year-ahead forecasts of seasonal factors from the functional principal component regression are compared with other forecasting methods based on mean absolute error (MAE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). Forecasting seasonal factors via the functional principal component regression performs better than other comparable methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.226-226
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• 2011

최적 저수지운영을 위한 운영률 도출이나 강우-유출 및 수질 모형의 매개변수 추정 문제처럼 비선형적이고 추정해야할 변수의 수가 많은 경우, 수학적으로 모형화하기에 너무 복잡해서 선형계획법, 비선형계획법, 동적계획법 등을 사용하여 최적해를 구할 수 없는 경우도 있다. 이러한 문제에 대해서는 구조적 진화를 통해 최적해를 구하는 방법들이 사용된다. 일반적으로 미지수의 개수가 많아지면 전역최적해를 찾기가 어려워진다. 전역최적해를 찾는 여러 가지 방법들이 수자원 분야에서는 강우-유출모형의 매개변수를 추정하는데 많이 사용되고 있으며, 특히 유전자 알고리즘, SCE-UA 알고리즘 등 전역최적해를 찾는 메타휴리스틱 방법이 많이 사용되고 있다. 전역최적화 방법을 개발하는 연구자들은 최적화방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 다양한 검사함수(test function)를 만들어 성능을 평가하고 있다. 본 연구에 사용한 검사함수는 Mishra의 연구(2006a, 2006b)에서 사용한 중요하고 복잡한 검사함수이다. 유전자 알고리즘, SCE-UA 알고리즘, DDS 알고리즘을 검사함수 중 전역해를 찾기 어려운 2 차원 함수 2 가지, 다차원 함수 4 가지 함수에 적용하여 각각의 탐색 성능을 평가하였다. 2차원 함수인 Bukin 함수에 대해서는 모든 최적화 방법이 전역최적해를 찾을 수 없었지만, 유전자 알고리즘이 가장 전역최적해에 가까웠고 다음으로 DDS 알고리즘 순서였다. 지역수렴 영역이 많을 것으로 판단되는 10, 30, 50 차원 Michalewicz 함수에 대해서는 DDS 알고리즘으로 구한 최적해가 전역최적해와 매우 근접하였고 다음으로 SCE-UA 알고리즘, 유전자 알고리즘 순이었다. 지역수렴 영역이 상대적으로 다른 함수보다 넓은 10 차원 Schwefel 함수에 대해서는 DDS 알고리즘으로 구한 최적해가 전역최적해와 거의 근접하였고 유전자 알고리즘과 SCE-UA 알고리즘은 매우 큰 편차를 보였다. 40, 80 차원 Schwefel 함수에 대해서는 3 가지 알고리즘 모두 전역최적해와 편차를 보였지만 DDS 알고리즘에 의한 최적해와 다른 두 알고리즘에 의한 최적해는 1 오더(order) 정도의 차이가 났다. 지역수렴 영역이 큰 Michalewicz 함수와 Schwefel 함수에 대한 결과는 매우 흡사한 결과이다. 이상과 같은 결과로, 유전자 알고리즘은 매개변수의 수가 적을 경우 우수한 탐색성능을 가졌으며, SCE-UA 알고리즘은 Griewank, Rastrigin 함수와 같은 형태인 경우 우수한 성능을 보였다. DDS 알고리즘은 전체적으로 우수한 탐색 능력을 가진 것으로 판단된다. 그러므로 수위구간 영역별 저수지운영률 도출을 위한 적절한 최적화방법으로 DDS 알고리즘을 선정하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.171-176
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• 2016

The distribution shapes of air and water temperatures are basic and essential information, which determine the frequency patterns of their occurrence. It is also very useful to understand the changes in long-term air and water temperatures with respect to climate change. The typical distribution shapes of air and water temperatures cannot be well fitted using widely used/accepted normal distributions because their shapes show multimodal distributions. In this study, Gaussian mixture distributions and kernel distributions are suggested as the more suitable models to fit their distribution shapes. Based on the results, the tail shape exhibits different patterns. The tail is long in higher temperature regions of water temperature distribution and in lower temperature regions of air temperature distribution. These types of shape comparisons can be useful to identify the patterns of long-term air and water temperature changes and the relationship between air and water temperatures. It is nearly impossible to identify change patterns using only mean-temperatures and normal distributions.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.987-994
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• 2011

From the point view of credit evaluation whose population is divided into the default and non-default state, two methods are considered to estimate conditional distribution functions: one is to estimate under the assumption that the data is followed the mixture normal distribution and the other is to use the kernel density estimation. The parameters of normal mixture are estimated using the EM algorithm. For the kernel density estimation, five kinds of well known kernel functions and four kinds of the bandwidths are explored. In addition, the corresponding ROC functions are obtained based on the estimated distribution functions. The goodness-of-fit of the estimated distribution functions are discussed and the performance of the ROC functions are compared. In this work, it is found that the kernel distribution functions shows better fit, and the ROC function obtained under the assumption of normal mixture shows better performance.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.357-371
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• 2007

For the time-to-failure data with competing risks, cumulative incidence functions (CIFs) are commonly estimated using nonparametric methods. If the cases of events due to the cause of primary interest are infrequent relative to other cause of failure, nonparametric methods may result in rather imprecise estimates for CIF. In such cases, Bryant et al. (2004) suggested to model the cause-specific hazard of primary interest parametrically, while accounting for the other modes of failure using nonparametric estimator. We represented the semiparametric cumulative incidence estimator and extended to the model of Weibull and log-normal distribution. We also conducted simulations to access the performance of the semiparametric cumulative incidence estimators and to investigate the impact of model misspecification in log-normal cause-specific hazard model.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.753-762
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• 1998

This Paper reports results of investigating the relationship between students' perfoonance and mathematics imtructiooal system in understanding of the function concept. A written examination measuring calcullli students' understanding of the fimction concept was administered to two groups of students whose educatiooal oockground were different. One group consists of students who completed a pre-calculus course in Korea and the other group completed the same course in the United States. This study investigates how students in two groups acquire an understanding of major aspects of the function concept and provided interesting insights regarding the different background and belief related to their performance. Follow-up interviews were conducted to identify possible explanations for the different performance of the two groups in understanding the function concepts. Results indicate that the differences came from the educational environment and individual belief.