• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.275-292
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• 2010

Receiver operating characteristic(ROC) curves can be used to assess the accuracy of tests measured on ordinal or continuous scales. The most commonly used measure for the overall diagnostic accuracy of diagnostic tests is the area under the ROC curve(AUC). When two ROC curves are constructed based on two tests performed on the same individuals, statistical analysis on differences between AUCs must take into account the correlated nature of the data. This article focuses on confidence interval estimation of the difference between paired AUCs. We compare nonparametric, maximum likelihood, bootstrap and generalized pivotal quantity methods, and conduct a monte carlo simulation to investigate the probability coverage and expected length of the four methods.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.87-100
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• 2005

In order to construct confidence intervals on the sum of variance components in a simple regression model with unbalanced nested error structure, alternative confidence intervals using Graybill and Wang(1980) and generalized inference concept introduced by Tsui and Weerahandi(1989) are proposed. Computer simulation programmed by SAS/IML is performed to compare the simulated confidence coefficients and average interval lengths of the proposed confidence intervals. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the confidence intervals and to show consistency between the example and simulation results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.265-270
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• 2004

불균형중첩오차구조를 갖는 단순선형회귀모형에서 나타나는 두 분산의 합에 대한 신뢰구간을 구하기 위하여 Ting et al.(1990) 방법과 Graybill and Wang(1980) 방법과 Tsui and Weerahandi(1989)가 제안한 일반화 축량(generalized pivotal quantity)방법을 이용한 두 가지 방법 등 모두 네 가지 신뢰구간을 제안한다. 신뢰구간의 적절성을 판단하기 위하여 여러 가지 불균형 설계에 대하여 SAS/IML로 시뮬레이션을 실행하고 신뢰계수와 신뢰구간의 평균 길이를 비교한다. 불균형중첩오차구조를 갖는 단순선형회귀모형의 두 분산의 합에 대한 네 가지 신뢰구간들이 주샘플링 단위의 변화에 따라 어느 방법이 적절한 신뢰구간을 구축하는지 추천하고, 실제 예제를 적용하여 시뮬레이션의 결과와 일관성이 있는지를 확인한다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.461-473
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• 2014

We consider condence intervals for high quantiles of heavy-tailed distribution. The asymptotic condence intervals based on the limiting distribution of estimators are considered together with bootstrap condence intervals. We can also apply a non-parametric, parametric and semi-parametric approach to each of these two kinds of condence intervals. We considered 11 condence intervals and compared their performance in actual coverage probability and the length of condence intervals. Simulation study shows that two condence intervals (the semi-parametric asymptotic condence interval and the semi-parametric bootstrap condence interval using pivotal quantity) are relatively more stable under the criterion of actual coverage probability.