Violation of respondent's privacy in Moors' model- its rectification through a random group strategy

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 743-754

  Mangat, Naurang Singh ^a   Singh, Ravindra ^a   Singh, Sarjinder ^a  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Estimation of proportion; Random group method; Randomized response technique; Response confidentiality; Sensitive variable; Simple random sampling; Unrelated question model

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

RANDOM GROUP METHOD;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 0031083977     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929708831946     Document Type: Article

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