• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.575-583
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• 2003

We proposed imputation strategies for the Population and Housing Census 2000 in Korea. The total area of floor space and marital status which have relatively high non-response rates in the Census are considered to develope the effective missing value imputation procedures. The Classification and Regression Tree(CART) is employed to construct the imputation cells for hot-deck imputation, as well as to predict missing value by model-based approach. We compare three imputation methods which include CART model-based imputation, hot-deck imputation based on CART and logical hot-deck imputation proposed by The Korea National Statistical Office. The results suggest that the proposed hot-deck imputation based on CART is very efficient and strongly recommendable.

• 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.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.1103-1113
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• 2011

Gene expression data is obtained through many stages of an experiment and errors produced during the process may cause missing values. Due to the distinctness of the data so called 'small n large p', genes have to be selected for statistical analysis, like classification analysis. For this reason, imputation and gene selection are important in a microarray data analysis. In the literature, imputation, gene selection and classification analysis have been studied respectively. However, imputation, gene selection and classification analysis are sequential processing. For this aspect, we compare the performance of classification methods after imputation and gene selection methods are applied to microarray data. Numerical simulations are carried out to evaluate the classification methods that use various combinations of the imputation and gene selection methods.

• 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.

• 한국조사연구학회지:조사연구
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 패널조사에서 발생하는 웨이브 무응답을 대체하는 방법을 고찰하였다. 패널조사에서는 이전 조사 데이터를 무응답 대체에 활용할 수 있기 때문에 이러한 성질을 이용하면 횡단면 무응답 대체보다 더 효과적인 웨이브 무응답 대체법을 찾을 수 있다. 먼저 웨이브 무응답 대체를 사용하는 해외의 주요 패널조사를 살펴보고, 웨이브 무응답 대체방법 중 종단면 회귀대체법, 이월대체법, 최근방 회귀대체법, 그리고 행렬대체법을 고찰하였다. 그리고 웨이브 무응답 대체법의 성능을 비교하기 위하여 한국복지패널 데이터를 대상으로 모의실험을 실시하였다. 성능을 비교하기 위하여 평균대체, 회귀대체, 비대체, 최근방 대체, 핫덱 대체를 고려하였고 성능평가 지표로는 예측 정확성 지표와 추정 정확성 지표를 이용하였다. 모의실험 결과 비대체, 행렬대체는 두 지표 모두 우수했고, 회귀대체, 종단면 회귀대체, 이월대체는 예측 정확성은 우수한 반면 추정 정확성은 다소 떨어졌으며, 반대로 최근방 회귀대체, 최근방 대체, 핫덱 대체는 예측 정확성은 떨어지나 추정 정확성은 높은 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 평균 대체는 두 지표 모두 좋지 않았다.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 Animal Science and Technology
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• 제58권1호
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• pp.1.1-1.6
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• 2016

Background: Genotype imputation is an important process of predicting unknown genotypes, which uses reference population with dense genotypes to predict missing genotypes for both human and animal genetic variations at a low cost. Machine learning methods specially boosting methods have been used in genetic studies to explore the underlying genetic profile of disease and build models capable of predicting missing values of a marker. Methods: In this study strategies and factors affecting the imputation accuracy of parent-offspring trios compared from lower-density SNP panels (5 K) to high density (10 K) SNP panel using three different Boosting methods namely TotalBoost (TB), LogitBoost (LB) and AdaBoost (AB). The methods employed using simulated data to impute the un-typed SNPs in parent-offspring trios. Four different datasets of G1 (100 trios with 5 k SNPs), G2 (100 trios with 10 k SNPs), G3 (500 trios with 5 k SNPs), and G4 (500 trio with 10 k SNPs) were simulated. In four datasets all parents were genotyped completely, and offspring genotyped with a lower density panel. Results: Comparison of the three methods for imputation showed that the LB outperformed AB and TB for imputation accuracy. The time of computation were different between methods. The AB was the fastest algorithm. The higher SNP densities resulted the increase of the accuracy of imputation. Larger trios (i.e. 500) was better for performance of LB and TB. Conclusions: The conclusion is that the three methods do well in terms of imputation accuracy also the dense chip is recommended for imputation of parent-offspring trios.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.1079-1086
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• 2005

Most discussions of single imputation methods and the EM algorithm concern point estimation of population quantities with missing values. A second concern is how to get standard errors of the point estimates obtained from the filled-in data by single imputation methods and EM algorithm. Now we focus on how to estimate standard errors with incorporating the additional uncertainty due to nonresponse. There are some approaches to account for the additional uncertainty. The general two possible approaches are considered. One is the jackknife method of resampling methods. The other is multiple imputation(MI). These two approaches are reviewed and compared through simulation studies.