In sample surveys, when we need information regarding rare sensitive issues which people
often do not prefer to share with others. In such situations this is also awkward for …

In human population surveys, respondents are not likely to participate or give honest and
truthful answers when the stigmatized issues are asked. To reduce the response biases …

Taking the clue from the pioneer work of Land et al.(2011), we have suggested an unbiased
estimator of the mean number of persons possessing the rare sensitive attribute in presence …

This paper has great potential for estimating population proportion who possess stigmatized
character by using Negative binomial distribution as a randomization device. The properties …

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the population proportion π S possessing
the sensitive attribute using stratified random sampling. Two alternatives to Kim and Warde …

When open or direct surveys are about sensitive matters (eg gambling habits, addiction to
drug and others intoxicants, alcoholism, proneness to tax invasion, induced abortions …

The crux of this paper is to estimate the mean of the number of persons possessing a rare
sensitive attribute based on Singh et al.[24] randomization device by utilizing the Poisson …

The quest of this paper is to propose an improved mixed randomized response model for
estimating the proportion of sensitive attribute π S in the population. Mangat et al.[17] and …

This paper suggests a stratified optional randomized response model based on Mangat and
Singh (1994) model that has proportional and optimal allocation and larger gain in …

This article addresses the problem of estimating the proportion π S of the population
belonging to a sensitive group using optional randomized response technique in stratified …