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Clinical Applications of Quantitative EEG (정량화 뇌파(QEEG)의 임상적 이용)

  • Youn, Tak;Kwon, Jun-Soo
    • Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.31-43
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    • 1995
  • Recently, the methods that measure and analyze brain electrical activity quantitatively have been available with the rapid development of computer technology. The quantitative electroencephalography(QEEG) is a method of computer-assisted analyzing brain electrical activity. The QEEG allows for a more sensitive, precise and reproducible examination of EEG data than that can be accomplished by conventional EEG. It is possible to compare various EEG parameters each other by using QEEG. Neurometrics, a kind of the quantitative EEG. is to compare EEG characteristics of the patient with normative data to determine in what way the patient's EEG deviates from normality and to discriminate among psychiatric disorders. Nowadays, QEEG is far superior to conventional EEG in its detection of abnormality and in its usefulness in psychiatric differential diagnosis. The abnormal findings of QEEG in various psychiatric disorders are also discussed.

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A Study of Non-parametric Statistical Tests to Quantify the Change of Water Quality (수질변화의 계량화를 위한 비모수적 통계 준거에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Hoon
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.111-119
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    • 1997
  • This study was carried out to suggest the best statistical test which may be used to quantify the change of water quality between two groups. Traditional t-test may not be used in cases where the normality of underlying population distribution is not assured. Three non-parametric tests which are based on the relative order of the measurements, were studied to find out the applicability in water quality data analysis. The sign test is based on the sign of the deviation of the measurement from the median value, and the binomial distribution table is used. The signed rank test utilizes not only the sign but also the magnitude of the deviation. The Wilcoxon rank-sum test which is basically same as Mann-Whitney test, tests the mean difference between two independent samples which may have missing data. Among the three non-parametric tests studied, the singed rank test was found out to be applicable in the quantification of the change of water quality between two samples.

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Better Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Process Incapability Index $C_{pp}$

  • Cho, Joong-Jae;Han, Jeong-Hye;Lee, In-Pyo
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.341-357
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    • 1999
  • Greenwich and Jahr-Schaffrath(1995) considered a new process incapability index(PII) $C_{pp}$, which modified the useful index $C^{\ast}_{pm}{$ for detecting assignable causes. The new index $C_{pp}$ provides an uncontaminated separation between information concerning the process accuracy and precision while this kind of information separation is not available with the $C^{\ast}_{pm}$ index. In this paper, we will study about the index $C_{pp}$ based on the bootstrap. First, we will prove the consistency of bootstrap deriving the bootstrap asymptotic distribution for our index $C_{pp}$. Moreover, with the consistency of bootstrap, we will construct six bootstrap confidence intervals and compare their performances. Some simulation results, comparison and analysis are provided. In particular, two STUD and ABC bootstrap methods perform significantly better.

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Moment inequalities of $NBU_{mgf}$ with testing hypotheses application

  • Mahmoud, M.A.W.;Gadallah, A.M.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.57-69
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    • 2012
  • Our goal in this paper is to establish inequalities for the moments of new better than used in the moment generating function class ($NBU_{mgf}$). Using these inequalities we propose a new test for exponentiality versus $NBU_{mgf}$ class. Pitman's asymptotic relative efficiency, power and critical values of this test are calculated to assess the performance of the test. We proposed also a new test for exponentiality versus $NBU_{mgf}$ in the right censored data. Sets of real data are used as an example to elucidate the use of the proposed test for practical problems.

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Robust Bayesian inference in finite population sampling with auxiliary information under balanced loss function

  • Kim, Eunyoung;Kim, Dal Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.685-696
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we develop Bayesian inference of the finite population mean with the assumption of posterior linearity rather than normality of the superpopulation in the presence of auxiliary information under the balanced loss function. We compare the performance of the optimal Bayes estimator under the balanced loss function with ones of the classical ratio estimator and the usual Bayes estimator in terms of the posterior expected losses, risks and Bayes risks.

Seven Facets of Learning Agility in Higher Education for Future Society

  • SUNG, Eunmo
    • Educational Technology International
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.169-197
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    • 2021
  • Learning agility as high potentials is drawing attention as a competency for leading an uncertain future society. The present study aims to determine the factors of learning agility in higher education context for future society. To address this goal, Major factors related to learning agility were derived through literature review and statistically verified. For statistical analysis, the nationwide data were collected from 1,000 undergraduate students in South Korea by National Youth Policy Institute. The participants asked to answer 29 items of learning agility questionnaires (LAQ). The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistical analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis. As a result, learning agility items were verified normality and reliability. Learning agility was identified seven factors; challenging mind, learning responsibility, reflecting experience, intellectual curiosity, systemic thinking, change adaptability, and logical thinking. Also, the structural model fit of the seven factors of learning agility was also confirmed to be good. Based on the findings of the present study, empirical, theoretical, and practical contributions were presented, and suggestions for further research were proposed in detail.

Determinants of Key Account Management Performance in Business-to-Business Relationship: The Garments Industry in Bangladesh

  • Ahmmed, Kawsar;Noor, Nor Azila Mohd
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.12 no.11
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    • pp.5-13
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    • 2014
  • Purpose - This study traces the determinants of key account management performance in the garments industry in Bangladesh. The key account management approach involves significant challenges for marketers to manage their strategically important customers and use this approach as a strategic weapon in their selling efforts. This study examines three categories of determinants of key account management performance including operational variables, organizational variables, and relational variables by exploring data from 100% export oriented readymade garments companies in Bangladesh. Research design, data, and methodology - Data were collected from 30 readymade garments manufacturers, considering a company as a unit of analysis. Using the data, instrument validity and reliability and, subsequently, data normality were examined using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software to isolate the important determinants of key account management performance. Results - The instruments are reliable and the data are reasonably normal. Conclusion - The study explored and validated the adapted instruments of various operational, organizational, and relational antecedent factors of key account management performance, most of which were thus far ignored.

New Kernel-Based Normality Recovery Method and Applications (새로운 커널 기반 정상 상태 복구 기법과 응용)

  • Kang Dae-Sung;Park Joo-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.410-415
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    • 2006
  • The SVDD(support vector data description) is one of the most important one-class support vector learning methods, which depends on the strategy of utilizing the balls defined on the feature space to discriminate the normal data from all other possible abnormal objects. This paper addresses on the extension of the SVDD method toward the problem of recovering the normal contents from the data contaminated with noises. The validity of the proposed de-noising method is shown via application to recovering the high-resolution images from the low-resolution images based on the high-resolution training data.

Development of Line Density Index for the Quantification of Oceanic Thermal Fronts (해양의 수온전선 정량화를 위한 선밀도 지수 개발)

  • Cho, Hyun-Woo;Kim, Kye-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.227-238
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    • 2006
  • Line density index(LDI) was developed to quantify a densely isothermal line rate as standard index in the ocean environment. Theoretical background on the LDI development process restricting index range 0 to 100 was described. And validation test was done for the LDI application condition that total line length is not greater than 1/10 of unit area. NOAA SST(Sea Surface Temperature) data were used for the experimental application of LDI in the South Sea of Korea. Using GIS, $0.1^{\circ}C$ isothermal lines were linearized as vector data form SST raster data, and unit area were built as polygon data. For the LDI calculation, spatial overlapping(line in polygon) was implemented. To analyze the effect of unit area size for the LDI distribution, two cases of unit area size were designed and descriptive statistics was calculated including performing normality test. The results showed no change of LDI's essential characteristics such as mean and normality except for the range of value, variance and standard deviation. Accordingly, it was found that complex structure of thermal front and even smaller scale of front width than unit area size could influence on the LDI distribution. Also, correlation analysis performed between LDI and difference of temperature(${\Delta}T^{\circ}C$), and horizontal thermal gradient(${\Delta}T^{\circ}C/km$) on the front was obtained from linear regression model. This obtained value was compared with the results from previous researches. Newly developed LDI can be used to compare the thermal front regions changing spatio-temporally in the ocean environment using absolute index value. It is considered to be significant to analyze the relationship between thermal front and marine environment or front and marine organisms in a quantitative approach described in this study.

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Empirical Analysis of DEA models Validity for R&D Project Performance Evaluation : Focusing on Rank Correlation with Normalization Index (R&D 프로젝트 성과평가를 위한 DEA모형의 타당성 실증분석 : 정규화지표와의 순위상관을 중심으로)

  • Park, Sung-Min
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.314-322
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    • 2011
  • This study analyzes a relationship between Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) efficiency scores and a normalization index in order to examine the validity of DEA models. A normalization index concerned in this study is 'sales per R&D project fund' which is regarded as a crucial R&D project performance evaluation index in practice. For this correlation analysis, three distinct DEA models are selected such as DEA basic model, DEA/AR-I revised model(i.e. DEA basic model with Acceptance Region Type I constraints) and Super-Efficiency(SE) model. Especially, SE model is adopted where efficient R&D projects(i.e. Decision Making Units, DMU's) with DEA efficiency score of unity from DEA basic model can be further differentiated in ranks. Considering the non-normality and outliers, two rank correlation coefficients such as Spearman's ${\rho}_s$ and Kendall's ${\tau}_B$ are investigated in addition to Pearson's ${\gamma}$. With an up-to-date empirical massive dataset of n = 482 R&D projects associated with R&D Loan Program of Korea Information Communication Promotion Fund in the year of 2011, statistically significant (+) correlations are verified between the normalization index and every model's DEA efficiency scores with all three correlation coefficients. Especially, the congruence verified in this empirical analysis can be a useful reference for enhancing the practitioner's acceptability onto DEA efficiency scores as a real-world R&D project performance evaluation index.