Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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345
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Social Statistics Section
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Abstract #313711
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Title:
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A New Quasi-Empirical Bayes Estimate in Randomized Response Technique
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Author(s):
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Augustus Jayaraj*+ and Oluseun Odumade and Sarjinder Singh
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Companies:
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Cornell University and Deloitte and Texas A&M
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Keywords:
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Randomized response sampling ;
estimation of sensitive characteristics ;
Bayes estimation ;
Cramer-Rao lower bound of variance
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Abstract:
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In this paper, a new notion of a "quasi empirical" Bayes estimate is developed for estimating the proportion of sensitive attribute in a population by making use of both a prior distribution of prevalence of the sensitive attribute in addition to the known prior distribution of an unrelated characteristic.
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