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On a Transformation Technique for Nonparametric Regression

  • Kim, Woochul;Park, Byeong U.
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.217-233
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    • 1996
  • This paper gives a rigorous proof of an asymptotic result about bias and variance for a transformation-based nonparametric regression estimator proposed by Park et al (1995).

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Nonparametric Regression with Left-Truncated and Right-Censored Data

  • Park, Jinho
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.791-800
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    • 1999
  • Gross and Lai(1996) proposed a new approach for ordinary regression with left-truncated and right-censored (I.t.r.c) data. This paper shows how to apply nonparametric algorithms such as multivariate adaptive regression splines to 1.t.r.c data.

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Nonparametric Bayesian Multiple Change Point Problems

  • Kim, Chansoo;Younshik Chung
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2002
  • Since changepoint identification is important in many data analysis problem, we wish to make inference about the locations of one or more changepoints of the sequence. We consider the Bayesian nonparameteric inference for multiple changepoint problem using a Bayesian segmentation procedure proposed by Yang and Kuo (2000). A mixture of products of Dirichlet process is used as a prior distribution. To decide whether there exists a single change or not, our approach depends on nonparametric Bayesian Schwartz information criterion at each step. We discuss how to choose the precision parameter (total mass parameter) in nonparametric setting and show that the discreteness of the Dirichlet process prior can ha17e a large effect on the nonparametric Bayesian Schwartz information criterion and leads to conclusions that are very different results from reasonable parametric model. One example is proposed to show this effect.

Nonparametric Bayesian methods: a gentle introduction and overview

  • MacEachern, Steven N.
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.445-466
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    • 2016
  • Nonparametric Bayesian methods have seen rapid and sustained growth over the past 25 years. We present a gentle introduction to the methods, motivating the methods through the twin perspectives of consistency and false consistency. We then step through the various constructions of the Dirichlet process, outline a number of the basic properties of this process and move on to the mixture of Dirichlet processes model, including a quick discussion of the computational methods used to fit the model. We touch on the main philosophies for nonparametric Bayesian data analysis and then reanalyze a famous data set. The reanalysis illustrates the concept of admissibility through a novel perturbation of the problem and data, showing the benefit of shrinkage estimation and the much greater benefit of nonparametric Bayesian modelling. We conclude with a too-brief survey of fancier nonparametric Bayesian methods.

Portfolio Selection for Socially Responsible Investment via Nonparametric Frontier Models

  • Jeong, Seok-Oh;Hoss, Andrew;Park, Cheolwoo;Kang, Kee-Hoon;Ryu, Youngjae
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.115-127
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    • 2013
  • This paper provides an effective stock portfolio screening tool for socially responsible investment (SRI) based upon corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance. The proposed approach utilizes nonparametric frontier models. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been used to build SRI portfolios in a few previous works; however, we show that free disposal hull (FDH), a similar model that does not assume the convexity of the technology, yields superior results when applied to a stock universe of 253 Korean companies. Over a four-year time span (from 2006 to 2009) the portfolios selected by the proposed method consistently outperform those selected by DEA as well as the benchmark.

Nonparametric tests of parallelism aginst umbrella alternatives of slopes in k-regression lines (k개의 회귀직선에서 기울기들의 우산형 대립가설에 대한 평행성의 비모수 검정법에 관한 연구)

  • 김동희;임동훈
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.19-34
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    • 1994
  • In this paper we propose nonparametric tests of parallelism against umbrella alternatives of slopes in k-regression lines and investigate the asymptotic properties of the proposed test statistics. For the known peak and unknown peak, we suggest the test statistics and show that, from Monte Carlo study, the proposed test statistics have good empirical powers for heavy tailed distributions than the likelihood ratio tests.

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Nonparametric Tests for Detecting Greater Residual Life Times

  • Lim, Jae-Hak;Ibrahim A. Ahmad;Park, Dong-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Reliability Society Conference
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    • 2004.07a
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    • pp.167-175
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    • 2004
  • A nonparametric procedure is proposed to test the exponentiality against the hypothesis that one life distribution has a greater residual life times than the other life distribution. Such a hypothesis turns out to be equivalent to the one that one failure rate is greater than the other and so the proposed test works as a competitor to more IFR tests by Kochar (1979, 1981) and Cheng (1985). Our test statistic utilizes the U-statistics theory and a large sample nonpara metric test is established. The power of the proposed test is discussed by calculating the Pitman asymptotic relative efficiencies against several alter native hypotheses. A numerical example is presented to exemplify the proposed test.

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Nonparametric tests using optimal weights for umbrella alternatives in a randomized block design (확률화 블럭 계획법에서 최적 가중치를 이용한 우산형 대립가설의 비모수검정법)

  • 김동희;김영철
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.139-152
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    • 1996
  • In this paper we propose nonparametric tests using optimal weights for umbrella alternatives in a randomized block design. We obtain the optimal weights by maximizing the asymptotic relative efficiency of the proposed test statistics with respect to Mack and Wolf(1981) type test statistic, and investigate asymptotic relative efficiencies of the proposed test statistics using these optimal weights relative to Mack and Wolfe type statistics and linear rank statistic. Throughout simulations for small samples, the proposed test statistic has good powers rather than the other two tests when the block sizes are different.

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Nonparametric procedures using aligned method and linear placement statistics in randomized block design (랜덤화 블록 계획법에서 정렬방법과 선형위치통계량을 이용한 비모수 검정법)

  • Han, Jinjoo;Kim, Dongjae
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.29 no.7
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    • pp.1411-1419
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    • 2016
  • Nonparametric procedures in randomized block design was proposed by Friedman (1937) as a general alternative. This method is used to find out the difference in treatment effect. It can cause a loss of inter block information using the ranking in each block. This paper proposed nonparametric procedures using an aligned method proposed by Hodges and Lehmann (1962) to reduce block information based on joint placement suggest by Jo and Kim (2013) in a randomized block design. We also compared the power of the test of the proposed procedures and established method through a Monte Carlo simulation.

A comparison study on regression with stationary nonparametric autoregressive errors (정상 비모수 자기상관 오차항을 갖는 회귀분석에 대한 비교 연구)

  • Yu, Kyusang
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.157-169
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    • 2016
  • We compare four methods to estimate a regression coefficient under linear regression models with serially correlated errors. We assume that regression errors are generated with nonlinear autoregressive models. The four methods are: ordinary least square estimator, general least square estimator, parametric regression error correction method, and nonparametric regression error correction method. We also discuss some properties of nonlinear autoregressive models by presenting numerical studies with typical examples. Our numerical study suggests that no method dominates; however, the nonparametric regression error correction method works quite well.