A new unrelated question randomized response model |
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Authors: | Sanghamitra Pal Sarjinder Singh |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Statistics , West Bengal State University , Barasat, North 24 Pgs, West Bengal , India mitra_pal@yahoo.com;3. Department of Mathematics , Texas A&4. M University-Kingsville , Kingsville , TX , 78363 , USA |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we extend the work of Gjestvang and Singh [A new randomized response model, J. R. Statist. Soc. Ser. B (Methodological) 68 (2006), pp. 523–530] to propose a new unrelated question randomized response model that can be used for any sampling scheme. The interesting thing is that the estimator based on one sample is free from the use of known proportion of an unrelated character, unlike Horvitz et al. [The unrelated question randomized response model, Social Statistics Section, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, 1967, pp. 65–72], Greenberg et al. [The unrelated question randomized response model: Theoretical framework, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 64 (1969), pp. 520–539] and Mangat et al. [An improved unrelated question randomized response strategy, Calcutta Statist. Assoc. Bull. 42 (1992), pp. 167–168] models. The relative efficiency of the proposed model with respect to the existing competitors has been studied. |
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Keywords: | estimation of population proportion randomized response unequal probability sampling unrelated question model |
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