TY - GEN
T1 - Eliciting Information on Sensitive Features
T2 - Block Total Response Technique and Related Inference
AU - Nandy, K.
AU - Marcovitz, M.
AU - Sinha, B. K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Randomized Response Technique was first introduced and popularized by Warner in 1965. Since then, survey sampling theoreticians and practitioners have contributed significantly in this area of survey methodological research. The idea is to be able to elicit a "truthful" response on sensitive feature(s) from the sampled respondents (of a finite labeled population of respondents), so that eventually the population mean of the sensitive feature can be unbiasedly estimated. Toward this, a novel technique was introduced by Raghavarao and Federer (1979) and it was termed "Block Total Response" (BTR) technique. We undertake various meaningful versions/generalizations of the BTR technique, after a brief review of the literature in this direction. In the process, we also introduce empirical Bayes estimators.
AB - Randomized Response Technique was first introduced and popularized by Warner in 1965. Since then, survey sampling theoreticians and practitioners have contributed significantly in this area of survey methodological research. The idea is to be able to elicit a "truthful" response on sensitive feature(s) from the sampled respondents (of a finite labeled population of respondents), so that eventually the population mean of the sensitive feature can be unbiasedly estimated. Toward this, a novel technique was introduced by Raghavarao and Federer (1979) and it was termed "Block Total Response" (BTR) technique. We undertake various meaningful versions/generalizations of the BTR technique, after a brief review of the literature in this direction. In the process, we also introduce empirical Bayes estimators.
KW - Balanced incomplete block design
KW - Binary proper equireplicate block design
KW - Block total response technique
KW - Empirical Bayes estimators
KW - Randomized response technique
KW - Regular feature
KW - Sensitive feature
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U2 - 10.1016/bs.host.2016.01.017
DO - 10.1016/bs.host.2016.01.017
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962094445
SN - 9780444635709
T3 - Handbook of Statistics
SP - 317
EP - 329
BT - Data Gathering, Analysis and Protection of Privacy Through Randomized Response Techniques
A2 - Chaudhuri, Arijit
A2 - Christofides, Tasos C.
A2 - Rao, C.R.
PB - Elsevier
ER -