Showing papers on "Population proportion published in 1977"
TL;DR: The randomized response technique as discussed by the authors is a method of interviewing which allows estimation of population proportion or mean of a sensitive characteristic while maintaining anonymity of response, which is accomplished by use of two questions in the interview, one sensitive and one not so, with the respondent applying a random device to determine which question to answer.
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TL;DR: In this paper, randomized response methods have been introduced in an attempt to improve the accuracy and honesty in personalized response surveys of very sensitive questions, taking into account the protection afforded the respondent, and they point out that the estimators which previous authors have claimed to be the maximum likelihood estimators of the population proportion with the sensitive characteristic, are in fact not the maximum-likelihood estimators.
Abstract: In recent years randomized response methods have been introduced in an attempt to improve the accuracy and honesty in personalized response surveys of very sensitive questions. Two randomized response methods are compared, taking into account the protection afforded the respondent. In addition, we point out that the estimators, which previous authors have claimed to be the maximum likelihood estimators of the population proportion with the sensitive characteristic, are in fact not the maximum likelihood estimators.
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