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Empirical Study on Unit Bias under the Flat Rate Pricing in the Korean Mobile Telecommunication Market (이동통신시장에서의 단위편향 소비행태 발생에 관한 실증연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Woo;Jeong, Seon-Hwa;Lee, Hyeongjik
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.229-237
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this paper is to empirically identify whether unit bias exists or not under the flat rate pricing in the Korean mobile telecommunication market and to give the desirable form of pricing plans for minimizing this irrational behaviors. Our results show that with the flat rate pricing consumers tends to make more voice or data traffic over their optimal consumption level, meaning the existence of unit bias in the Korean mobile market. These results imply that under the current pricing plans subscribers may pay higher monthly fee than their optimal cost which maximizes their utility, for using the telecommunications service. Thus, policy makers need to consider adopting mobile operators' segmentation of the flat rate pricing plans for the reduction of subscribers' telecommunications costs and the improvement of consumer welfare.

The Effect of Initial DC Bias Voltage on Highly Oriented Diamond Film Growth on Silicon

  • Dae Hwan Kang;Seok Hong Min;Ki Bum Kim
    • The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.13-17
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    • 1997
  • It is identified that the diamond films grown o bias-treated (100) silicon showed different surface morphologies and film textures according to the initial applied dc bias voltage at the same growth condition. The highly oriented diamond film (HODF) was successfully grown on -200 V bias-treated silicon substrate in which the heteroepitaxial relation of $(100)_{dimond}//(100)_{si}\; and\; [110]_{diamond}//[110]_{si}$ was identified. On the contrary, the heteroepitaxial relation was considerably disturbed in the samples bias-voltage was a key factor in growing the highly oriented diamond film on (100) silicon substrate. Considering the experimental results, we proposed a new model about heteroepitaxial diamond growth on silicon, in which 9 diamond unit cell are matched with 4 silicon cells and the bond covalency of both atoms is satisfied via the intermediate layer at the interface as well.

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Analysis on the Effect of Unit Non-Response Adjustment using the Survey of Household Finances (가계금융조사를 활용한 단위무응답 조정효과 분석)

  • Baek, Jeeseon;Shim, Kyuho
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.375-387
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    • 2013
  • Unit non-response of surveys reduces the efficiency of the estimates and also causes non-response bias especially when there is large difference between respondents and non-respondents. Non-response weighting adjustments have usually been used to compensate for non-response. It is not easy to examine the non-response bias as well as to obtain information on the non-respondents in sample surveys. A household panel survey, called The Survey of Household Finances, was conducted in both 2010 and 2011. In this paper, we assume that non-response households in Wave 2 have strong non-response (non-cooperative) tendency. We classify those households into non-response households in Wave 1. Under this assumption, the characteristics of non-response households, the non-response bias and the effect of non-response adjustments are investigated.

Measurement Issues across Different Cultures

  • Lee, Ju-Hee;Jung, Duk-Yoo
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.36 no.8
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    • pp.1295-1300
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    • 2006
  • Purpose. The purposes of this methodologic paper are to (1) describe theoretical background in conducting research across different cultures; (2) address measurement issues related to instrument administration; and (3) provide strategies to deal with measurement issues. Methods. A thorough review of the literature was conducted. A theoretical background is provided, and examples of administering instrument in studies are described. Results. When applying an instrument to different cultures, both equivalence and bias need to be established. Three levels of equivalence, i.e., construct equivalence, measurement unit equivalence, and full score comparability, need to be explained to maintain the same concept being measured. In this paper, sources of bias in construct, method, and item are discussed. Issues related to instrument administration in a cross-cultural study are described. Conclusion. Researchers need to acknowledge various group differences in concept and/or language that include a specific set of symbols and norms. There is a need to question the philosophical and conceptual appropriateness of an assessment measure that has been conceptualized and operationalized in a different culture. Additionally, testing different response formats such as narrowing response range can be considered to reduce bias.

Statistical Methods to Control Response Bias in Nursing Activity Surveys (간호활동시간 조사 시 응답편이 통제를 위한 통계적 접근 방안)

  • Lim, Ji-Young;Park, Chang-Gi
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.48-55
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare statistical methods to control response bias in nursing activity surveys. Methods: Data were collected at a medical unit of a general hospital. The number of nursing activities and consumed activity time were measured using self-report questionnaires. Descriptive statistics were used to identify general characteristics of the units. Average, Z-standardization, gamma regression, finite mixture model, and stochastic frontier model were adopted to estimate true activity time controlling for response bias. Results: The nursing activity time data were highly skewed and had non-normal distributions. Among the 4 different methods, only gamma regression and stochastic frontier model controlled response bias effectively and the estimated total nursing activity time did not exceeded total work time. However, in gamma regression, estimated total nursing activity time was too small to use in real clinical settings. Thus stochastic frontier model was the most appropriate method to control response bias when compared with the other methods. Conclusion: According to these results, we recommend the use of a stochastic frontier model to estimate true nursing activity time when using self-report surveys.

A Basic Study on the Low Drift Flux Meter by Using a Peltier Device (펠티어 소자를 사용한 Low Drift Flux Meter의 기초연구)

  • Kim, Chul-Han;Heo, Jin;Shin, kwang-Ho;Sa-Gong, Geon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.14 no.11
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    • pp.912-916
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    • 2001
  • Fluxmeter is a measuring instrument the magnetic flux intensity by means of an integration of the voltage induced to a search coil to unit time. It also is required to a precise integrator since the voltage induced to a search coil has a differential value of the flux ${\Phi}$ to unit time. In this study, a bias current which is a main problem of the integrator in a drift troublesome depending on the temperature of a FET is investigated. We have confirmed that the temperature dependence of both the bias current of a integrator using the FET and the reversal saturated current of the minor carrier in a P-N junction of a semiconductor were the same. The property of a commercial integrator goes rapidly down with increasing temperature. The bias current of a FET is increased twice as much with 10$^{\circ}C$ increment. As a result, the low drift integrator could be developed by setting the lower temperature up with a pottier device.

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THE VARIANCE ESTIMATORS FOR CALIBRATION ESTIMATOR IN UNIT NONRESPONSE

  • Son, Chang-Kyoon;Jung, Hun-Jo
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.869-877
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    • 2002
  • In the presence of unit nonresponse we perform the calibration estimation procedure for the population total corresponding to the levels of auxiliary information and derive the Taylor and the Jackknife variance estimators of it. We study the nonresponse bias reduction and the variance stabilization, and then show the efficiency of the Taylor and the Jackknife variance estimators by simulation study.

The Weighting Adjustment for Unit Nonresponse in the Stratified Sampling (층화 표본에서 단위 무응답에 대한 가중치 조정 방법)

  • 염준근;손창균
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.82-99
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    • 1998
  • In sampling survey the nonresponse reduces the precision of the estimator becuase of the nonresponse bias of the estimator. Deville, et al.(1993) considered the generalized raking procedure with the auxiliary information under five distance measures for reducing the nonresponse bias of the estimator. This paper extends the classical weighting adjustment of Deville, et al.(1993) to the stratified sampling case with three among five measures.

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Unit Nonrespondents in a Taiwan Telephone Survey

  • Chen, Kuang-hui
    • Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.111-130
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    • 2016
  • Researchers have been perplexed by the issue of unit nonresponse since the beginning of practicing survey research and have been attentive to the causes that lead to the occurrence of unit nonresponse as well as the impact of unit nonresponse. However, because researchers have little to no information regarding unit nonrespondents, it is unlikely that they are able to examine the differences between participants and nonrespondents to estimate the loss of representativeness in the final sample compared with the target population. Therefore, the lack of information regarding the absentees complicates addressing the unit nonresponse bias in a satisfactory manner. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the demographic characteristics and political attitudes of nonrespondents by relying on information provided by their spouses, which was obtained through a telephone survey conducted in Taiwan. It is found that demographic variables as well as political attitudes are related to the likelihood of an individual becoming a unit nonrespondent in telephone surveys.