Randomized response techniques: A case study of the risky behaviors' of students of a certain University

Issue title: Warner's Randomized Response Model

Guest editors: Arijit Chaudhuri

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Arnab, Raghunath^* | Mothupi, Thuto

Affiliations: Department of Statistics, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Raghunath Arnab, Department of Statistics, University of Botswana, Botswana. E-mail:arnabr@mopipi.ub.bw

Abstract: A survey was conducted on the students of a certain University to determine the prevalence of various risky behaviors. The data was collected using direct method (DR) and randomized response (RR) method. It is found that RR method yielded higher estimates of the prevalence. The estimated standard errors based on RR surveys did not always produce expected results that the estimates should be higher than that of the DR surveys.

Keywords: Inclusion probability proportional to size, jackknife method, randomized response, ratio estimator, sampling design

DOI: 10.3233/MAS-150344

Journal: Model Assisted Statistics and Applications, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 421-430, 2015