A class of estimators for quantitative sensitive data

Statistical Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 633-650

  Diana, Giancarlo ^a   Perri, Pier Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auxiliary variable; Privacy protection measures; Regression type estimator; Scrambled responses; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960575125     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-009-0273-1     Document Type: Article

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