Journal of Research
Open Access
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2003
  • Volume: 40
  • Issue: 2

An Alternative Randomized Response Strategy for Estimation of Proportion Using Quantitative Character

  • Author:
  • M Javed, Pritpal Singh
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 226 to 229

*Department of Plant Breeding

Department of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana

Abstract

The present paper considers the use of an alternative randomization device for eliciting information on sensitive issues. The proposed estimator is found to be unbiased for population proportion and is more efficient than Mangat and Singh's (1990) and Mangat's (1994) estimators.

Keywords

Estimation of proportion, Randomized response technique, Relative efficiency, Sensitive character