Efficient estimation of population mean of sensitive variable in presence of scrambled responses

Housila P. Singh and Swarangi M. Gorey

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2017, vol. 46, issue 19, 9557-9565

Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of estimating the population mean of a sensitive variable in presence of scrambled response. We have suggested a randomized response model which uses known values of mean and variance of scrambling variable. We have shown that the proposed randomized response model is always better than that of Gjestvang and Singh's (2009) and Singh and Tarray's (2014) randomized response models. A numerical study for efficiency comparison is also presented.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2016.1213288

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