345 – Survey Inference and Sample Size Estimation
A New Quasi Empirical Bayes Estimate in Randomized Response Sampling
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Keywords: Randomized response sampling, estimation of sensitive characteristics, Bayes estimation, Cramer-Rao lower bound of variance
Augustus Jayaraj
Cornell University
Oluseun Odumade
Deloitte
Sarjinder Singh
Texas A&M University - Kingsville
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.