How are auxiliary variables used in studies of biodiversity? What is the relationship between auxiliary variables and indicators of governance?

Nov 15, 2022 ... Variable z is an auxiliary variable which has the sole purpose to formulate the division as a product and make it possible to solve the underlying model with ... Jul 9, 2017 ... Note that s has no interpretation in this model whatsoever; this is just an auxiliary parameter to help us simulate and update the t- ... May 4, 2024 ... ... auxiliary variable to estimate the median of the study variable. ... parameter value by estimating its values. This pragmatic approach ... Analyzing People's Media Use Behaviors Using Mail Survey Method Zhang, Xiaoqun January 3, 2018 Case Studies of Research: Small & Medium Sized Enterprises ... auxiliary variable for both voiced and unvoiced phonetic states, and therefore ignore the fact that pitch (frequency) information is meaningful only for ... May 22, 2018 ... We propose a general framework for nonlinear ICA, which, as a special case, can make use of temporal structure. It is based on augmenting the data by an ... Mar 4, 2025 ... Holmes, C C; Held, L (2006). Bayesian auxiliary variable models for binary and multinomial regression. Bayesian Analysis, 1(1):145-168. variable of interest Y, using the ranking variable X as an auxiliary variable when the population mean µx is unknown. The proposed estimators fare better ... 2.1 Requirement: Functions that compute auxiliary variables should have simple, intuitive calling arguments . Auxiliary variables take in constant data as ... Aug 27, 2024 ... Auxiliary variables are used in multiple imputation (MI) to reduce bias and increase efficiency. These variables may often themselves be ...