Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences | 2019
Shrinkage Estimation Procedure of Population Mean with Stigmatizing Character in Unrelated Question Randomized Response Technique
Abstract
This work deals with the estimation of population mean related to sensitive characteristic. A shrinkage estimator of population mean using a prior information is proposed under unrelated question randomized response model where one of the two questions presented to the respondents is non-stigmatized and unrelated to the stigmatized character. The properties of proposed estimator have been discussed, and empirical studies are accomplished to demonstrate the performance of the proposed estimation procedure.