3 papers
stat.ME2025
Self-Tuned Rejection Sampling within Gibbs and a Case Study in Small Area Estimation
Andrew M. Raim, Kyle M. Irimata, James A. Livsey
When formulating a Gibbs sampler, some conditionals may be unfamiliar distributions without well-known variate generation routines. Rejection sampling may be used to draw from such…
stat.ME2024
Bayesian Methods to Improve The Accuracy of Differentially Private Measurements of Constrained Parameters
Ryan Janicki, Scott H. Holan, Kyle M. Irimata +2
Formal disclosure avoidance techniques are necessary to ensure that published data can not be used to identify information about individuals. The addition of statistical noise to u…
stat.ME2024
Rejection Sampling with Vertical Weighted Strips
Andrew M. Raim, James A. Livsey, Kyle M. Irimata
A number of distributions that arise in statistical applications can be expressed in the form of a weighted density: the product of a base density and a nonnegative weight function…