1st Edition

Randomized Response Theory and Techniques

By Chaudhuri Copyright 1987
184 Pages
by CRC Press

184 Pages
by Routledge

Offering a concise account of the most appropriate and efficient procedures for analyzing data from queries dealing with sensitive and confidential issues- including the first book-length treatment of infinite and finite population set-ups - this volume begins with the simplest problems, complete with their properties and solutions, and proceeds to incrementally more difficult topics. Randomized... Read more

Foreword (Pranab Kumar Sen)

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction to Randomized Response: The Warner Model

Introduction: Why Randomized Response?

The Warner Model

Exercises

References

Appendix 1: Supplementary Remarks on the Warner Model

A1.1 Randomized Response Versus Direct Response

A1.2 Unbiased Estimation in the Warner Model

A1.3 Maximum Likelihood Estimation with the Warner Model

A1.4 Simple Random Sampling Without Replacement (SRSWOR) and the Warner Model

A1.5 Augmentation Modeling

Exercises

References

The Unrelated-Question Model

Introduction

The Case of Known πy•

The Case of the Unknown πy

Optimal Choice of Design Parameters

Comparison of the Warner Model and the Unrelated Question Model

Model with Two Unrelated Characters

Implicit Randomization

Exercises

References

Appendix 2: Supplementary Remarks on the Unrelated Question Model

A2.1 Unbiased and Maximum Likelihood Estimation

A2.2 SRSWOR with Simmons’ RRT

A2.3 Symmetry of Response

Exercises

References

Polychotomous Population and Multiattribute Situations

Introduction

Some Techniques for a Polychotomous Population

Use of Vector Response

Techniques for Multiattribute Situations

Exercises

References

Appendix 3 Supplementary Remarks on the Polychotomous and Multiattribute Models

A3.1 Augmentation Modeling

A3.2 Two-Stage Schemes

A3.3 Some Remarks

References

Techniques for Quantitative Characters

Introduction

The Unrelated-Question Model

Some Additional Techniques

Estimation of a Distribution Function

Applications of Hoeffding’s U Statistic and Von Mises’ Differentiable Statistical Functions

Exercises

References

Efficient Estimation and Protection of Privacy

Introduction

Dichotomous Population: "Yes-No" Response

General RR Models with Dichotomous Population

Polychotomous Models

Additional Generalities

References

Miscellaneous Topics on RR Techniques

A Bayesian Approach

More Lying Models

Randomized Response Surveys Allowing Options for Direct Responses

Some Allied Methods for Sensitive Characters

References

RR in a Finite Population Setting: A Unified Approach; Sampling with Varying Probabilities

Introduction

Linear Unbiased Estimations

Linear Estimation with RR Subject to Observational Errors

Optimality of General Unbiased Estimators

Modifications of Certain Popular Sampling Strategies in Open Surveys when Responses Are Randomized

References

Application of RRT and Concluding Remarks

References

Case Studies

A Survey of the Socioeconomics Conditions of College Students in Calcutta with Emphasis on Drug Habits

Randomized Response Survey with Sensitive Quantitative Characters: A Case Study

Randomized Response Technique to Determine Input in Crop Estimation

References

Appendix 4: Overview of Unified Theory of Direct Surveys

A4.1 Introduction and Notation

A4.2 Assortment of Leading Theoretical Results

References

Index

Biography

Arijit Chaudhuri is a Professor serving in the Computer Science Unit of Applied Statitsics Surveys and Computing Division at the Indian Statisitical Institute in Calcutta. Rahul Mukerjee is a faculty member in the Divison of Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics at the Indian Statistical Institure in Calcultta.

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