Concerns about North Korea’s 7th nuclear test have been rising recently, and it is a significant threat to the situation around the Korean Peninsula. Amidst these threats, the Korean government also shows a strong will for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, referring to the “Audacious Initiative.” For denuclearization negotiations with North Korea, it is essential first to understand North Korea’s nuclear capabilities. However, since access to information is complicated and contains many uncertainties, many studies have been conducted to estimate it. Among them, Von Hippel surveyed to estimate the total amount of uranium ore based on information on uranium mining, which is relatively widely known throughout North Korea’s nuclear fuel cycle, and the amounts of HEU and Pu suggested by many experts. KINAC has conducted a study on a methodology that can narrow the estimation range and improve reliability through the Bayesian Network based on Von Hippel’s research results. However, in this study, the probability distribution is assumed to be the simplest form of uniform distribution, and the estimation formula for the amount of Pu produced compared to the amount of uranium loaded in the core is used as it is, which is an error in Von Hippel’s study. Improvement is needed. This study proposes a more reliable BN model by supplementing this and attempts to estimate the amount of uranium ore that North Korea produces or possesses. Of course, the data used as the basic structure of the model is insufficient, and the estimation formula is straightforward, so it is somewhat unreliable to trust the estimate for uranium ore. However, it is expected to be a suitable methodology that can narrow the scope of North Korea’s nuclear material production estimate or compensate for the uncertainty of the nuclear material production estimation model being developed at KINAC.

PURPOSES : This study aimed to estimate road pavement life expectancy using Bayesian Markov Mixture Hazard Model, to support infrastructure asset management. In addition, the life expectancies for the pavement condition index were compared among regional construction and management administrations. METHODS : Eleven years of National Highway road pavement monitoring data fused with ESAL (Equivalent Single Axle Loads), SNP (Structural Number of Pavement, an indicator of structural capacity), and average low temperature, total rainfall, and de-icing were used for the deterioration modeling. Deterioration modeling was performed through the Bayesian Markov Mixture Hazard Model. RESULTS : The expected life expectancy of the crack was estimated at 12.28 to 18.51 years, rut depth was estimated at 15.93 to 25.3 years, and the International Roughness Index was estimated at 10.44 to 14.33 years. It was also confirmed that the heterogeneity factor proposed in the Bayesian Markov Mixture Hazard Model could be used to analyze group characteristics and differences in the benchmark. CONCLUSIONS: This study provided important information in that it compared the life expectancies and structural characteristics of the pavement condition indexes among regional construction and management administrations. Based on this result, it is expected that a pavement structure design and maintenance strategy suitable for deterioration characteristics among regional construction and management administrations will be established.

This paper is intended to compare the hazard rate estimations from Bayesian approach and maximum likelihood estimate(MLE) method. Hazard rate frequently involves unknown parameters and it is common that those parameters are estimated from observed data by

최근 녹조현상이 심화되면서 이를 해결하기 위한 방안으로 댐의 추가방류에 대한 필요성이 제기되고 있다. 따라서 보다 합리적인 댐 추가방류와 관련된 정책 수립을 위해서 댐의 추가방류수에 대한 경제적 가치 측정의 필요성이 제기되고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 녹조 저감과 수질개선을 위한 댐의 추가방류에 대한 경제적 가치를 도출하기 위하여 일반가구의 지불의사액을 분석하고자 한다. 한편 연구방법론적인 측면에서 조건부 가치측 정법(CVM)을 적용하되, 최우추정법(Maximum Likelihood Estimation)을 이용하는 기존의 CVM 연구와 달리 베이지안(Bayesian) 추정법을 적 용하였다. 본 연구는 전국의 1,000가구를 대상으로 충주댐의 추가방류를 현재보다 200% 증가시켰을 경우를 가정하여 댐 추가방류의 사회적 편익 즉, 조류저감 효과를 산정하였다. 분석결과 가구당 연간 WTP는 1,909.3원으로 이를 연간 총편익으로 계산하면 357.1억 원, 10.56원/m3이다.

There are growing interests in environmental friendly cultivation for the matter of health concern. This study analyzes an economic efficiency of strawberry and tomato farming by considering the role of environmentally friendly cultivation. The Database of Rural Development Administration is used for strawberry and tomato farming households. We adopt a Bayesian stochastic frontier model to resolve a small sample property of the data. Empirical finding is that environmentally friendly cultivation improves the revenue of farming but the effect on net profit is not conclusive which calls for future research.

A Bayesian nonstationary probability rainfall estimation model using the Grid method is developed. A hierarchical Bayesian framework is consisted with prior and hyper-prior distributions associated with parameters of the Gumbel distribution which is selected for rainfall extreme data. In this study, the Grid method is adopted instead of the Matropolis Hastings algorithm for random number generation since it has advantage that it can provide a thorough sampling of parameter space. This method is good for situations where the best-fit parameter values are not easily inferred a priori, and where there is a high probability of false minima. The developed model was applied to estimated target year probability rainfall using hourly rainfall data of Seoul station from 1973 to 2012. Results demonstrated that the target year estimate using nonstationary assumption is about 5∼8% larger than the estimate using stationary assumption.

본 논문에서는 각각의 시점에서의 변화확률을 산정하여 변화시점을 추정하는 Barry and Hartigan (BH)의 베이지안 변화시점 추정방법(Bayesian changing points estimation method)을 이용하여 측우기 관측자료계열(CWK)과 근대우량계 관측자료계열(MRG)간의 변화에 대한 상대확률적 절점의 발생여부를 분석하였다. 어떠한 자연 현상도 완전히 동일하게 재현되지 않기때문에 시간적인 순서를 고려하지못하는 통계적 방법은 구체