• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.309-318
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• 2010

The construction of asymptotic confidence intervals is considered for the difference of binomial proportions in two doubly sampled data subject to false-positive error. The coverage behaviors of several likelihood based confidence intervals and a Bayesian confidence interval are examined. It is shown that a hierarchical Bayesian approach gives a confidence interval with good frequentist properties. Confidence interval based on the Rao score is also shown to have good performance in terms of coverage probability. However, the Wald confidence interval covers true value less often than nominal level.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.481-487
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• 2000

When we construct an interval estimate of two independent proportions with rare events, the standard approach based on the normal approximation behaves badly in many cases. The problem becomes more severe when no success observations are observed on both groups. In this paper, we compare two alternative methods of constructing a confidence interval of the difference of two independent proportions by use of simulation. One is based on the profile likelihood and the other is the Bayesian probability interval. It is shown in this paper that the Bayesian interval estimator is easy to be implemented and performs almost identical to the best frequentist's method -the profile likelihood approach.

• 한국통계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국통계학회 2002년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.73-78
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• 2002

In this paper we develop a method for constructing a Bayesian HPD (highest probability density) interval of a ratio of two multivariate normal generalized variances. The method gives a way of comparing two multivariate populations in terms of their dispersion or spread, because the generalized variance is a scalar measure of the overall multivariate scatter. Fully parametric frequentist approaches for the interval is intractable and thus a Bayesian HPD(highest probability densith) interval is pursued using a variant of weighted Monte Carlo (WMC) sampling based approach introduced by Chen and Shao(1999). Necessary theory involved in the method and computation is provided.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.743-752
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• 2004

In this paper, we develop the Bayesian model selection procedure using the reference prior for comparing two nested model such as the independent and intraclass models using the distance or divergence between the two as the basis of comparison. A suitable criterion for this is the power divergence measure as introduced by Cressie and Read(1984). Such a measure includes the Kullback -Liebler divergence measures and the Hellinger divergence measure as special cases. For this problem, the power divergence measure turns out to be a function solely of $\rho$, the intraclass correlation coefficient. Also, this function is convex, and the minimum is attained at $\rho=0$. We use reference prior for $\rho$. Due to the duality between hypothesis tests and set estimation, the hypothesis testing problem can also be solved by solving a corresponding set estimation problem. The present paper develops Bayesian method based on the Kullback-Liebler and Hellinger divergence measures, rejecting $H_0:\rho=0$ when the specified divergence measure exceeds some number d. This number d is so chosen that the resulting credible interval for the divergence measure has specified coverage probability $1-{\alpha}$. The length of such an interval is compared with the equal two-tailed credible interval and the HPD credible interval for $\rho$ with the same coverage probability which can also be inverted into acceptance regions of $H_0:\rho=0$. Example is considered where the HPD interval based on the one-at- a-time reference prior turns out to be the shortest credible interval having the same coverage probability.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.643-650
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• 2013

We develop noninformative priors for a ratio of parameters of two Maxwell distributions which is used to check the equality of two Maxwell distributions. Specially, we focus on developing probability matching priors and Je reys' prior for objectiv Bayesian inferences. The probability matching priors, under which the probability of the Bayesian credible interval matches the frequentist probability asymptotically, are developed. The posterior propriety under the developed priors will be shown. Some simulations are performed for identifying the usefulness of proposed priors in objective Bayesian inference.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.331-345
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• 2007

Uncertainties enter a complex analysis from a variety of sources: variability, lack of data, human errors, model simplification and lack of understanding of the underlying physics. However, for many important engineering applications insufficient data are available to justify the choice of a particular probability density function (PDF). Sometimes the only data available are in the form of interval estimates which represent, often conflicting, expert opinion. In this paper we demonstrate that Bayesian estimation techniques can successfully be used in applications where only vague interval measurements are available. The proposed approach is intended to fit within a probabilistic framework, which is established and widely accepted. To circumvent the problem of selecting a specific PDF when only little or vague data are available, a hierarchical model of a continuous family of PDF's is used. The classical Bayesian estimation methods are expanded to make use of imprecise interval data. Each of the expert opinions (interval data) are interpreted as random interval samples of a parent PDF. Consequently, a partial conflict between experts is automatically accounted for through the likelihood function.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.737-746
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• 2013

Tobin (1958)에 의해 처음 소개된 절단 회귀모형에서 베이지안 추정은 최대가능도 추정보다 실제값에 가까운 것으로 알려져 있으나 베이지안 방법론이 구간추정 문제에 있어서도 성공적으로 작동할 수 있을 지에 대해서는 알려진 바가 없다. 일반적으로 베이지안 방법론에서 사전분포는 분석자의 사전정보를 반영하기 때문에 주관적인 분석이 될 수 밖에 없는데, 이렇게 주관적인 분석에서는 빈도학파들이 요구하는 기준을 따르기 어렵다. 그러나 무정보사전분포는 때때로 빈도학파적 특성을 갖는 베이지안 추론을 가능하게 한다. 본 연구에서는 절단 회귀모형에서 무정보사전분포에 의한 베이지안 신뢰구간의 빈도학파적 특성을 살펴보고 최대가능도 추정 신뢰구간과 포함확률을 비교한다. 이를 통해 최대가능도 추정의 표준오차가 과소 추정되고 있음 밝힌다.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.445-455
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• 2011

표본추출에서 오분류된 이진자료는 흔히 발생될 수 있는 현실적인 문제이지만 통계적 방법론은 상대적으로 제한적이라고 할 수 있다. 특히, 모비율의 구간추정 문제는 고전적인 Wald 방법에 의존하고 있었다. 그러나 최근 이승천과 최병수 (2009)에서 Agresti-Coull 방법을 적용하고 새로운 구간추정 방법을 제시하였으며, 수치적인 방법에 의해 Agresti-Coull 신뢰구간의 효율성을 주장하였다. 본 연구에서는 오분류된 이진자료에 대한 베이지안 모형을 다루었으며, 베이지안 모형이 Agresti-Coull 신뢰구간의 이론적 배경이 될 수 있는지 살펴 보았다.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.171-181
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• 2006

모비율 차이의 구간 추정에서 표준으로 인식되고 있는 Wald 신뢰구간은 모비율 구간 추정과 마찬가지로 포함확률의 근사성에서 문제가 있다는 것이 알려져 있다. 이에 대한 대안으로 모비율 차이의 신뢰구간에 대한 많은 연구가 있어 왔으나 대부분의 신뢰구간은 매우 복잡한 과정을 통해 얻어지게 되어 있어 실용성에 대한 문제가 제기될 수 있다. 이와 비교하여 Agresti와 Caffo(2000)에 의해 제시된 신뢰구간은 매우 간편한 식에 의해 구할 수 있어 이해하기 쉽고 포함확률과 포함확률의 평균절대오차에 있어 다른 복잡한 신뢰 구간과 필적할 수 있다. 그러나 Agresti-Caffo 신뢰 구간은 포함확률이 명목 신뢰수준을 상회하는 보수적인 구간으로 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서는 이승천(2005)에서 이항비율의 신뢰구간을 구하기 위해 사용된 가중 Polya 사후분포를 이용하여 두 모비율 차이의 신뢰구간을 구하였다. 이렇게 구하여진 신뢰구간은 간편성은 물론 Agresti-Caffo 신뢰구간의 보수성을 개선하였다.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2003

In this article, we consider a Bayesian estimation method for the geometric mean of $textsc{k}$ exponential parameters, Using the Tibshirani's orthogonal parameterization, we suggest an invariant prior distribution of the $textsc{k}$ parameters. It is seen that the prior, probability matching prior, is better than the uniform prior in the sense of correct frequentist coverage probability of the posterior quantile. Then a weighted Monte Carlo method is developed to approximate the posterior distribution of the mean. The method is easily implemented and provides posterior mean and HPD(Highest Posterior Density) interval for the geometric mean. A simulation study is given to illustrates the efficiency of the method.