Item Count Technique in estimating the proportion of people with a sensitive feature

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 589-593

  Chaudhuri, Arijit ^a   Christofides, Tasos C ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Indirect questioning; Protecting privacy; Randomized response; Sophisticated estimation; Unequal probability sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749329510     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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