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Randomized Response Techniques: A Systematic Review from the Pioneering Work of Warner (1965) to the Present

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  • Truong-Nhat Le

    (Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

  • Shen-Ming Lee

    (Department of Statistics, Feng Chia University, Taichung 40724, Taiwan)

  • Phuoc-Loc Tran

    (Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Science, Can Tho University, Can Tho 900000, Vietnam)

  • Chin-Shang Li

    (School of Nursing, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA)

Abstract

The randomized response technique is one of the most commonly used indirect questioning methods to collect data on sensitive characteristics in survey research covering a wide variety of statistical applications including, e.g., behavioral science, socio-economic, psychological, epidemiology, biomedical, and public health research disciplines. After nearly six decades since the technique was invented, many improvements of the randomized response techniques have appeared in the literature. This work provides several different aspects of improvements of the original randomized response work of Warner, as well as statistical methods used in the RR problems.

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  • Truong-Nhat Le & Shen-Ming Lee & Phuoc-Loc Tran & Chin-Shang Li, 2023. "Randomized Response Techniques: A Systematic Review from the Pioneering Work of Warner (1965) to the Present," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-26, April.
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