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Activity Number: 684
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 4, 2016 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
Abstract #319148 View Presentation
Title: A Weighted, Squared-Distance Function for Two Decks of Cards in Randomized Response Technique
Author(s): Augustus Jayaraj* and Stephen Sedory and Sarjinder Singh and Oluseun Odumade
Companies: Cornell University and Texas A&M University - Kingsville and Texas A&M University - Kingsville and Deloitte Consulting
Keywords: Randomized response technique ; two-deck of cards ; lower bound of variance ; protection of respondents ; privacy in survey research
Abstract:

In this paper, we propose a new weighted, squared distance while minimizing the distance between the true proportions and the observed proportions of (Yes, Yes), (Yes, No), (No, Yes), and (No, No) answers in the setup of Odumade and Singh (2009) model.

The resultant estimator is shown to be an unbiased estimator of the proportion of the sensitive attribute of interest in a population and has a smaller variance than the estimator of Odumade and Singh (2009) with the same protection of the respondents.


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