In the context of Bayesian statistics, what is the role of auxiliary variables?

The auxiliary information can be a categorical variable (e.g. the county of the unit), in which case the categories or groups of categories ... Publication. Hoare Logic for NanoJava: Auxiliary Variables, Side Effects and Virtual Methods revisited. Author(s): David von Oheimb, Tobias Nipkow 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 ... Jul 11, 2024 ... A way to evolve this auxiliary state without having it get integrated along with the ODE state. Adding this feature would likely come with some practical and ... ... auxiliary variable for both voiced and unvoiced phonetic states, and therefore ignore the fact that pitch (frequency) information is meaningful only for ... Auxiliary variable ... Auxiliary variables are used in model assisted surveys to guide the selection of the sample sites. (loosely from Lohr, p. 60-61). Oct 7, 2020 ... Topic 33: Auxiliary Variables (PETARS, Chapter 5) ... Captions may be available for this content for accessibility purposes. They may not always ... The AuxVariables block within the input file may be used to create auxiliary variables that act, with respect to the interaction with other objects. Auxiliary Variable xi is value of an auxiliary variable for unit i. Assume µ(x), the population mean of x is known and we observe yi and xi for all the ... 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- ...