• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.175-189
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• 2019

The problem of the estimation of quantitative sensitive variable using the item sum technique (IST) on successive occasions has been discussed. IST difference, IST regression, and IST general class of estimators have been proposed to estimate quantitative sensitive variable at the current occasion in two occasion successive sampling. The proposed new estimators have been elaborated under Trappmann et al. (Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 2, 58-77, 2014) as well as Perri et al. (Biometrical Journal, 60, 155-173, 2018) allocation designs to allocate long list and short list samples of IST. The properties of all proposed estimators have been derived including optimum replacement policy. The proposed estimators have been mutually compared under the above mentioned allocation designs. The comparison has also been conducted with a direct method. Numerical applications through empirical as well as simplistic simulation has been used to show how the illustrated IST on successive occasions may venture in practical situations.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.495-504
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• 2007

Objectives : This study attempts to show how studies using non-experimental data can strengthen causal inferences by applying propensity score and instrumental variable methods based on the counterfactual framework. For illustrative purposes, we examine the effect of having private health insurance on the probability of experiencing at least one hospital admission in the previous year. Methods : Using data from the 4th wave of the Korea Labor and Income Panel Study, we compared the results obtained using propensity score and instrumental variable methods with those from conventional logistic and linear regression models, respectively. Results : While conventional multiple regression analyses fail to identify the effect, the results estimated using propensity score and instrumental variable methods suggest that having private health insurance has positive and statistically significant effects on hospital admission. Conclusions : This study demonstrates that propensity score and instrumental variable methods provide potentially useful alternatives to conventional regression approaches in making causal inferences using non-experimental data.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 VTCMOS(Variable-Threshold CMOS) 기법을 이용하는 초저전압 구동 논리 회로의 누설 전류 억제를 위한 기판 전압 발생회로를 제안한다. 제안하는 기판 전압 발생회로는 VSS 발생회로와 VBB 발생회로로 구성되어 있다. VSS 발생회로는 네거티브 전압을 발생시켜 VBB 발생회로에 공급하며, nB 발생회로는 공급받은 네거티브 전압을 이용하여 또 다른 네거티브 전압을 발생시킨다. 제안하는 회로의 동작을 검증하기 위해서 0.18um 1Poly-6Metal CMOS 공정을 사용하여 회로를 구현하였으며, 측정 결과 -0.95V의 기판 전압을 얻을 수 있었다. 제안한 기판 전압 발생회로를 이용함으로써, 0.5V의 전원 전압에서 동작하는 논리 회로의 누설 전류 성분을 효과적으로 줄일 수 있다.

• 한방재활의학과학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.49-60
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• 2014

Objectives The purpose of this study is to research current trends of acupuncture treatment of lumbar herniated intervertebral disc using the PubMed database. Methods We set up the search strategy and investigated clinical trials on acupuncture treatment of lumbar herniated intervertebral disc through PubMed search. This study analyzed previous researched papers published from January 1st, 2000 to April 30th, 2014, and classified them by publication year, journal names, types of literature, treatment methods and evaluation scales. To assess the quality of the reviewed literature, randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies were assessed by Cochrane's risk of bias (ROB) tool and non-RCT studies were assessed by risk of bias for non-randomized studies (RoBANS). Results We found 35 studies on the acupuncture treatment of lumbar herniated intervertebral disc. Papers on this topic have been published, on average, three to four times annually in 9 journals since the mid-2000's. The journal with the largest number of publications was Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion, and most of articles were classified as RCT. Acupuncture treatment was performed individually or together with other treatments. The most frequently used pain evaluation index was visual analogue scale (VAS). The index of effective rate was used frequently but there was a lack of objectivity. In regards to the quality of the studies, outcome assessment in RCT showed that random sequence generation, allocation concealment, and the blinding of participants and personnel increase potential of risk of bias. For non-RCT assessment, outcome showed that confounding variable, measurement of intervention were at high risk of bias. Conclusions In order to obtain objective clinical evidence of acupuncture treatment of lumbar herniated intervertebral disc, further clinical studies should be designed to minimize the risk of bias, using STRICTA with larger sample sizes.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.105-111
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• 1999

PECVD 방법에 의하여 제작된 수소화된 비정질 탄소박막에서 측정 전압에 따른 전기전도도의 급격한 변화와 시간에 따른 전류의 이완 현상을 관측하였다. 이 현상은 Hammer 등에 의해 four-probe 측정과 샌드위치형 전극 시료에 대해서 측정한 것과 동일하였다. 본 연구에서는 "높은 전압에서 전자가 트랩에 포획될 확률이 작아진다"는 가정 하에서 정성적이지만 전기전도도의 측정 전압 의존에 관한 세 가지 현상이 비교적 잘 설명됨을 제시하였다.

• 한국조사연구학회지:조사연구
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.39-52
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• 2006

우리나라 대다수 조사전문기관은 지역 성 나이대 할당표본추출에 의한 전화조사를 하고 있다. 그러나 평일에는 인구사회적 속성에 따른 개인별 재택률의 차이가 심하므로 체계적 응답자선택편향(respondent selection bias)이 우려된다. 문제 해결을 위해 조사시간대를 할당변수로 추가한 '시간균형할당표본추출'(time-balanced quota sampling) 방법과 저녁시간대 할당을 부분적으로 완화한 '시간균형준할당표본추출'(time-balanced quasi-quota sampling) 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 우리나라 통계청에서 2004년에 수집한 생활시간조사 원자료를 가상적 모집단으로 설정하여 새로운 할당추출법과 기존할당추출법에 의해 얻는 몬테칼로 표본들을 비교할 것이다.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.201-211
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• 2004

Process adjustment is a complimentary tool to process monitoring in process control. Process adjustment directs on maintaining a process output close to a target value by manipulating another controllable variable, by which significant process improvement can be achieved. Therefore, this approach can be applied to the 'Improve' stage of Six Sigma strategy. Though the optimal control rule minimizes process variability in general, it may not properly function when special causes occur in underlying process, resulting in off-target bias and increased variability in the adjusted output process, possibly for long periods. In this paper, we consider a responsive feedback control system and the minimum mean square error control rule. The bias in the adjusted output process is investigated in a general framework, especially focussing on stationary underlying process and the special cause of level shift type. Illustrative examples are employed to illustrate the issues discussed.

• 한국통계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국통계학회 2002년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.197-201
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• 2002

The healthy worker effect is an important issue in occupational epidemiology. We proposed a new statistical method to test the relationship between exposure and time to death in the presence of the healthy worker effect. In this study, we considered the healthy worker hire effect to operate as a confounder and the healthy worker survival effect to operate as a confounder and an intermediate variable. The basic idea of the proposed method reflects the length bias-sampling caused by changing one's employment status. Simulation studies were also carried out to compare the proposed method with the Cox proportional hazards models. According to our simulation studies, both the proposed test and the test based on the Cox model having the change of the employment status as a time-dependent covariate seem to be satisfactory at an upper 5% significance level. The Cox models, however, are inadequate with the change, if any, of the employment status as time-independent covariate. The proposed test is superior in power to the test based on the Cox model including the time-dependent employment status.

• 한국품질경영학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국품질경영학회 2004년도 품질경영모델을 통한 가치 창출
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• pp.425-429
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• 2004

Process adjustment Is a complimentary tool to process monitoring in process control. Process adjustment directs on maintaining a process output close to a target value by manipulating another controllable variable, by which significant process improvement can be achieved. Therefore, this approach can be applied to the 'Improve' stage of Six Sigma strategy. Though the optimal control rule minimizes process variability in general, it may not properly function when special causes occur in underlying process, resulting in off-target bias and increased variability in the adjusted output process, possibly for long periods. In this paper, we consider a responsive feedback control system and the minimum mean square error control rule. The bias in the adjusted output process is investigated in a general framework, especially focussing on stationary underlying process and the special cause of level shift type. Illustrative examples are employed to illustrate the issues discussed.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1988년도 전기.전자공학 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.563-566
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• 1988

A current-controlled CMOS operational transconductance amplifier(OTA), whose transconductance is directly proportional to the DC bias current, has been developed for many electronic circuit applications. It features that its transconductance is insensitive to temperature unlike that of the bipolar OTA. This property makes it possible to use the proposed OTA as a basic buliding block in electrically variable circuit design. The SPICE simulation shows that the conversion sensitivity of the circuit is 44.62 mv /${\mu}A$ and the linearity error less than 0.54 % over a bias current range from 2 ${\mu}A$ to 120 ${\mu}A$ when the output is loaded with a 1${\Omega}$ resistor.