Personnel Information

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KURODA MASAHIRO

Organization
School of Business Administration Associate Professor
Research Fields, Keywords
Computational Statistics, Missing data analysis, 欠測データ解析, 計算機統計
Syllabus information URL
https://syllabus.kwansei.ac.jp/uniasv2/UnSSOLoginControlFree?REQ_ACTION_DO=/AGA030PLS01Action.do?REQ_FUNCTION_JUMP_START_FLG=1&SLB_LINK_DISP_FLG=689&TCH_NO=260025&REQ_PRFR_FUNC_ID=AGA030
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Graduate School 【 display / non-display 】

  • Graduate school:Tokyo University of Science
    Department:Graduate School of Engineering
    Course:経営工学専攻

    Course completed:Doctor's Course
    Date of completion:2000.03
    Completion status:Completed
    Country:Japan

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Studying abroad experiences 【 display / non-display 】

  • Name of institution: Pkeing University
    Name of job or career: Research Student
    Date: 1994.04 - 1995.02

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Degree 【 display / non-display 】

  • Degree name:Ph.D
    Classified degree field:Informatics / Statistical science
    Conferring institution:Tokyo University of Science
    Acquisition way:Coursework
    Date of acquisition:2000.03

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Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • Affiliation:Kwansei Gakuin University
    Department:School of Business Administration
    Title:Associate Professor
    Date:2026.04 -

  • Affiliation:Okayama University of Science
    Department:Department of Management
    Title:Professor
    Date:2017.04 - 2026.03

  • Affiliation:Okayama University of Science
    Department:Department of Socio-Information
    Title:Professor
    Date:2015.04 - 2017.03

  • Affiliation:Okayama University of Science
    Department:Department of Socio-Information
    Title:Associate Professor
    Date:2007.04 - 2015.03

  • Affiliation:Okayama University of Science
    Department:Department of Socio-Information
    Title:Lecture
    Date:2002.04 - 2007.03

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Association Memberships 【 display / non-display 】

  • Academic society name:Japanese Society of Computational Statistics
    Academic country located:Japan

  • Academic society name:The Behaviormetric Society
    Academic country located:Japan

  • Academic society name:Japan Statistical Society
    Academic country located:Japan

  • Academic society name:The Japanese Classification Society
    Academic country located:Japan

  • Academic society name:Japanese Society of Applied Statistics
    Academic country located:Japan

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

  • Research field:Informatics / Statistical science

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Papers 【 display / non-display 】

  • Language: English
    Title: A simple EM algorithm for Cauchy and its related distributions: efficient acceleration and applications to a skew-t distribution and its regression model
    Journal name: Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science
    Date of publication: 2026.06
    Author(s): Toshihiro Abe, Masahiro Kuroda

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42081-026-00357-x
    Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)

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  • Language: Japanese
    Title: 不完全データに対する最尤推定値の標準誤差計算のためのブートストラップ法の高速化
    Journal name: 経営とデータサイエンス  vol.8  (p.1 - 12)
    Date of publication: 2026.03
    Author(s): 黒田正博

    Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)

  • Language: Japanese
    Title: Data augmentation algorithm for latent class analysis with missing data in manifest variables
    Journal name: The Bulletin of the Okayama University of Science. Natural science  vol.61  (p.1 - 9)
    Date of publication: 2026.01
    Author(s): Kuroda Masahiro

    Type of publication: Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)

  • Language: Japanese
    Title: The EM algorithm
    Journal name: Communication of the Operations Research Society of Japan  vol.69  (p.536 - 543)
    Date of publication: 2024.10
    Author(s): Masahiro, Kuroda

    Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)

  • Language: English
    Title: Structural equation modeling for the effect of involvement on consumer engagement
    Journal name: Lecture Notes in Computer Science  vol.14690  (p.209 - 223)
    Date of publication: 2024.06
    Author(s): Masahiro Kuroda, Akira Oyabu

    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-60114-9_15
    Type of publication: Research paper (international conference proceedings)

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Books 【 display / non-display 】

  • Title: EM algorithm
    Publisher: Kyouritsu Syuppan
    Date of publication: 2020.07
    Author(s): Kuroda, M

    Authorship：Sole author

  • Title: Least Squares and Alternative Least Squares Algorithms
    Publisher: Kyouritsu Syuppan
    Date of publication: 2017.09
    Author(s): Mori, Y., Kuroda, M., Adachi, K.

    Authorship：Joint author

  • Title: Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis and Its Applications
    Publisher: JSS Research Series in Statistics, Springer
    Date of publication: 2016.12
    Author(s): Mori, Y., Kuroda, M., Makino, N.

    Authorship：Joint author

  • Title: Analysis of contingency tables. In Statistical Methods for Biostatistics and Related Fields (W. Härdle, Y. Mori and P. View. Eds.), 105-124
    Publisher: Springer
    Date of publication: 2006
    Author(s): Kuroda Masahiro

    Authorship：Contributor

  • Title: Markov chain Monte Carlo. In The EM algorithm and related statistical models (Watanabe M. and Yamaguchi K., Ed.), 127-157.
    Publisher: Marcel Dekker
    Date of publication: 2003
    Author(s): Kuroda Masahiro

    Authorship：Contributor

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MISC 【 display / non-display 】

  • Title:Efficient computation for latent class analysis with missing data
    Journal name:8th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2025)
    Date of publication:2025.07
    Author(s):Kuroda, M.

  • Language：English
    Title:Fast computation of the bootstrap method for incomplete data
    Journal name:7th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics EcoSta2024
    Date of publication:2024.07
    Author(s):Kuroda, M

    Type of publication：Meeting report

  • Language：English
    Title:Bayesian approach to mixture models with missing data
    Journal name:The EAC ISBA conference 2024
    Date of publication:2024.06
    Author(s):Kuroda, M, Mori, Y

    Type of publication：Meeting report

  • Language：English
    Title:Structural Equation Modeling for the Effect of Involvement on Consumer Engagement
    Journal name:26TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
    Date of publication:2024.06
    Author(s):Kuroda, M, Oyabu, A

    Type of publication：Meeting report

  • Language：English
    Title:Speeding up the computation of a nonnegative matrix factorization algorithm
    Journal name:International Conference on Data Science
    Date of publication:2023.11
    Author(s):Masahiro Kuroda, Yuichi Mori

    Type of publication：Meeting report

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Awards 【 display / non-display 】

  • Prize: Award for Distinguished Investigator
    Date awarded:2010
    Awarding organization：Japanese Society of Computational Statistics
    Award-winner (group):Masahiro Kuroda

  • Prize: Award for Young Investigator
    Date awarded:2002
    Country:Japan
    Awarding organization：Japanese Society of Computational Statistics
    Award-winner (group):Masahiro Kuroda

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Committee Memberships 【 display / non-display 】

  • Organization name:Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science
    Committee name:Associate Editor

  • Organization name:Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
    Committee name:Associate Editor
    Date：2015 - 2017

  • Organization name:Journal of the Japanese Society of Computational Statisitcs
    Committee name:Associate Editor
    Date：2013 - 2017

  • Organization name:Computational Statistics
    Committee name:Associate Editor

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