In the flourishing live streaming industry, accurate recognition of streamers' emotions has become a critical research focus, with profound implications for audience engagement and content optimization. However, precise emotion coding typically requires manual annotation by trained experts, making it extremely expensive and time-consuming to obtain complete observational data for large-scale studies. Motivated by this challenge in streamer emotion recognition, we develop here a novel imputation method together with a principled statistical inference procedure for analyzing partially observed binary data. Specifically, we assume for each observation an auxiliary feature vector, which is sufficiently cheap to be fully collected for the whole sample. We next assume a small pilot sample with both the target binary covariates (i.e., the emotion status) and the auxiliary features fully observed, of which the size could be considerably smaller than that of the whole sample. Thereafter, a regression model can be constructed for the target binary covariates and the auxiliary features. This enables us to impute the missing binary features using the fully observed auxiliary features for the entire sample. We establish the associated asymptotic theory for principled statistical inference and present extensive simulation experiments, demonstrating the effectiveness and theoretical soundness of our proposed method. Furthermore, we validate our approach using a comprehensive dataset on emotion recognition in live streaming, demonstrating that our imputation method yields smaller standard errors and is more statistically efficient than using pilot data only. Our findings have significant implications for enhancing user experience and optimizing engagement on streaming platforms.
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林子谦，北京大学光华管理学院商务统计与经济计量系在读博士生，师从王汉生教授。主要研究方向为迁移学习，高维数据分析等。本科毕业于厦门大学经济学院统计学与数据科学系。研究论文发表在Annals of Applied Statistics和Computational Statistics & Data Analysis上。
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