A pseudo-empirical log-likelihood estimator using scrambled responses

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 345-351

  Singh, Sarjinder ^a   Kim, Jong Min ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auxiliary information; Randomized response sampling; Sensitive variable

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650595743     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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