• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.577-587
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• 2023

Conventional categorical data imputation techniques, such as mode imputation, often encounter issues related to overestimation. If the variable has too many categories, multinomial logistic regression imputation method may be impossible due to computational limitations. To rectify these limitations, we propose a two-stage imputation method. During the first stage, we utilize the Boruta variable selection method on the complete dataset to identify significant variables for the target categorical variable. Then, in the second stage, we use the important variables for the target categorical variable for logistic regression to impute missing data in binary variables, polytomous regression to impute missing data in categorical variables, and predictive mean matching to impute missing data in quantitative variables. Through analysis of both asymmetric and non-normal simulated and real data, we demonstrate that the two-stage imputation method outperforms imputation methods lacking variable selection, as evidenced by accuracy measures. During the analysis of real survey data, we also demonstrate that our suggested two-stage imputation method surpasses the current imputation approach in terms of accuracy.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.331-341
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• 2023

Handling missing values in data analysis is essential in constructing a good prediction model. The easiest way to handle missing values is to use complete case data, but this can lead to information loss within the data and invalid conclusions in data analysis. Imputation is a technique that replaces missing data with alternative values obtained from information in a dataset. Conventional imputation methods include K-nearest-neighbor imputation and multiple imputations. Recent methods include missForest, missRanger, and mixgb ,all which use machine learning algorithms. This paper compares the imputation techniques for datasets with mixed datatypes in various situations, such as data size, missing ratios, and missing mechanisms. To evaluate the performance of each method in mixed datasets, we propose a new imputation performance measure (IPM) that is a unified measurement applicable to numerical and categorical variables. We believe this metric can help find the best imputation method. Finally, we summarize the comparison results with imputation performances and computational times.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.129-132
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• 2007

arraylmpute is a software for exploratory analysis of missing data and imputation of missing values in microarray data. It also provides a comparative analysis of the imputed values obtained from various imputation methods. Thus, it allows the users to choose an appropriate imputation method for microarray data. It is built on R and provides a user-friendly graphical interface. Therefore, the users can easily use arraylmpute to explore, estimate missing data, and compare imputation methods for further analysis.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.633-650
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• 2013

All the imputation techniques proposed so far in literature for data imputation are offline techniques as they require a number of iterations to learn the characteristics of data during training and they also consume a lot of computational time. Hence, these techniques are not suitable for applications that require the imputation to be performed on demand and near real-time. The paper proposes a computational intelligence based architecture for online data imputation and extended versions of an existing offline data imputation method as well. The proposed online imputation technique has 2 stages. In stage 1, Evolving Clustering Method (ECM) is used to replace the missing values with cluster centers, as part of the local learning strategy. Stage 2 refines the resultant approximate values using a General Regression Neural Network (GRNN) as part of the global approximation strategy. We also propose extended versions of an existing offline imputation technique. The offline imputation techniques employ K-Means or K-Medoids and Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP)or GRNN in Stage-1and Stage-2respectively. Several experiments were conducted on 8benchmark datasets and 4 bank related datasets to assess the effectiveness of the proposed online and offline imputation techniques. In terms of Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), the results indicate that the difference between the proposed best offline imputation method viz., K-Medoids+GRNN and the proposed online imputation method viz., ECM+GRNN is statistically insignificant at a 1% level of significance. Consequently, the proposed online technique, being less expensive and faster, can be employed for imputation instead of the existing and proposed offline imputation techniques. This is the significant outcome of the study. Furthermore, GRNN in stage-2 uniformly reduced MAPE values in both offline and online imputation methods on all datasets.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.899-907
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• 2010

무응답 대체(non-response imputation) 방법에 관한 많은 이론과 방법이 제안되었으며 실제 자료 분석에 이용되고 있다. 흔히 횡단면 무응답 대체를 위하여 다중대체법(multiple imputation)이 사용되고 있으며 2차년도 이상의 패널자료에는 종시점회귀대체법(cross-wave regression imputation)이 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 패널자료 분석을 위하여 종시점회귀대체법의 일반형태인 시계열 대체법과 횡단면 무응답 대체법을 결합한 시계열-횡단면 다중 대체법을 제안하였다. 노동부의 매월노동통계 자료를 이용하여 제안한 방법과 기존의 종시점회귀대체법을 비교하여 우수함을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.143-152
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• 2003

A data set having missing observations is often completed by using imputed values. In this paper, performances and accuracy of five imputation procedures are evaluated when missing values exist only on the response variable in the exponential regression model. Our simulation results show that adjusted exponential regression imputation procedure can be well used to compensate for missing data, in particular, compared to other imputation procedures. An illustrative example using real data is provided.

• 한국데이터정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국데이터정보과학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.135-144
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• 2003

A data set having missing observations is often completed by using imputed values. In this paper, performances and accuracy of five imputation procedures are evaluated when missing values exist only on the response variable in the exponential regression model. Our simulation results show that adjusted exponential regression imputation procedure can be well used to compensate for missing data, in particular, compared to other imputation procedures. An illustrative example using real data is provided.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.276-284
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• 2012

Classification algorithms generally assume that the data is complete. However, missing values are common in real data sets due to various reasons. In this paper, we propose to use locally linear reconstruction (LLR) for missing value imputation to improve the classification performance when missing values exist. We first investigate how much missing values degenerate the classification performance with regard to various missing ratios. Then, we compare the proposed missing value imputation (LLR) with three well-known single imputation methods over three different classifiers using eight data sets. The experimental results showed that (1) any imputation methods, although some of them are very simple, helped to improve the classification accuracy; (2) among the imputation methods, the proposed LLR imputation was the most effective over all missing ratios, and (3) when the missing ratio is relatively high, LLR was outstanding and its classification accuracy was as high as the classification accuracy derived from the compete data set.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.95-107
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• 2008

농촌생활지표조사는 2000년부터 농촌자원개발연구소에서 매년 실시하는 조사로서 통계청 승인통계이다. 본 연구에서는 2005년 농촌생활지표조사에 사용된 원자료를 이용하였다. 원자료에 대한 에디팅 과정을 거친 후 무응답이 포함된 개체를 제거하여 얻어진 1,582 가구를 대 상으로 하였으며 총 146문항 중에서 최종 선택되어진 15문항을 증심으로 무응답 대체를 실시하였다. 실험에 사용된 대체법과 각 대체법의 효율성은 자료의 종류에 따라 다르게 적용되었다. 먼저 연속형 자료에 대해서는 평균대체, 회귀대체, 수정된 그레이 기반 k-NN 대체(DU, DW, WU, WW) 방법을 사용하여 무응답을 대체하고 RMSB를 이용하여 실험결과를 비교하였으며, 범주형 자료에 대해서는 최빈값 이용, 확률 대체, 조건부 최빈간 이용, 조건부 학률 대체, 단순 임의 핫덱 대체 방법을 사용하여 무응답을 대체하고 정확도(Accuracy)를 이용하여 실험 결과를 비교하였다. 실험 결과에 의하면 연속형 자료에 대해서는 회귀대체 또는 그레이 기반 k-NN 대체가 적절하고, 범주형 자료에 대해서는 핫덱 대체가 가장 적절한 것으로 나타났다.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.325-336
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• 2019

In this article we extend the discrete Weibull regression model in the presence of missing data. Discrete Weibull regression models can be adapted to various type of dispersion data however, it is not widely used. Recently Yoo (Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society, 30, 11-22, 2019) adapted the discrete Weibull regression model using single imputation. We extend their studies by using multiple imputation also with several various settings and compare the results. The purpose of this study is to address the merit of using multiple imputation in the presence of missing data in discrete count data. We analyzed the seventh Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES VII), from 2016 to assess the factors influencing the variable, 1 month hospital stay, and we compared the results using discrete Weibull regression model with those of Poisson, negative Binomial and zero-inflated Poisson regression models, which are widely used in count data analyses. The results showed that the discrete Weibull regression model using multiple imputation provided the best fit. We also performed simulation studies to show the accuracy of the discrete Weibull regression using multiple imputation given both under- and over-dispersed distribution, as well as varying missing rates and sample size. Sensitivity analysis showed the influence of mis-specification and the robustness of the discrete Weibull model. Using imputation with discrete Weibull regression to analyze discrete data will increase explanatory power and is widely applicable to various types of dispersion data with a unified model.