Ancillary statistics are statistics that do not contain any information about the parameters of interest in a statistical model, yet are related to the data. They provide additional context or structure without influencing the estimation of the parameters. Understanding ancillary statistics helps in evaluating the sufficiency of other statistics, as they can indicate how much information is contained in a dataset beyond what is captured by sufficient statistics.
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