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Randomized Response Techniques

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Generally, in surveys the randomization is done for the selection of the sample from a population for the estimation of some population parameters like population mean or total or proportion, ratios like birth or death rate, population correlation coefficient or regression coefficient, etc. The sampled units obtained through the randomization are approached, interviewed, and the required information is obtained. It is assumed that the reporting is truthful, without bias. The estimate of the population parameter of interest is obtained along with the sampling variance.

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  1. Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India

    Raosaheb Latpate

  2. Ekta Shikshan Prasarak Mandal’s Arts, Commerce and Science College, Ahmednagar, India

    Jayant Kshirsagar

  3. Former ICAR National Professor at IASRI, Delhi, India

    Vinod Kumar Gupta

  4. Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    Girish Chandra

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Latpate, R., Kshirsagar, J., Kumar Gupta, V., Chandra, G. (2021). Randomized Response Techniques. In: Advanced Sampling Methods. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0622-9_8

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