Honest Answers to Embarrassing Questions: Detecting Cheating in the Randomized Response Model

Psychological Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 160-168

  Clark, Stephen J ^b,c   Desharnais, Robert A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Vassar College   (United States)

^c VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0032377550     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.3.2.160     Document Type: Article

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