What is the definition of an auxiliary variable?

Abstract. We present a new approach to sample from generic binary distributions, based on an exact Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm applied to a piecewise ... Poster Knowledge Distillation with Auxiliary Variable. Bo Peng, zhen fang, Guangquan Zhang, Jie Lu. Hall C 4-9. Auxiliary-variable Exact Hamiltonian Monte. Carlo Samplers for Binary Distributions. Ari Pakman and Liam Paninski. Department of Statistics. Center for ... May 4, 2024 ... ... auxiliary variable to estimate the median of the study variable. ... parameter value by estimating its values. This pragmatic approach ... Also, it was established that estimators that are asymptotically optimum that utilized single auxiliary variable are more efficient than those that are not ... 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 ... Dec 30, 2015 ... ... auxiliary variable information. In order to evaluate efficiency of the introduced estimator, we first review some estimators and study the ... The data in the auxiliary file is primarily imputed from other datasets including the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC), Medical ... Auxiliary variables. Auxiliary variables are variables that can help to make estimates on incomplete data, while they are not part of the main analysis (Collins ... Jun 9, 2014 ... If an auxiliary variable is specified as (DE3STEP) the three-step method will be used and the variable will be treated as a distal variable with ...