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BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 463-481Publisher
BRAZILIAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
DOI: 10.1214/22-BJPS535
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Auxiliary information; bias; mean square error; randomized response technique; ratio estimator; exponential estimator; optional randomized response model
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An exponential type estimator for the population mean of a sensitive study variable based on a non-sensitive auxiliary variable is proposed in this paper. Efficiency comparisons and simulation studies suggest that the proposed estimator outperforms existing estimators even with low correlation between auxiliary and study variables.
The appropriate use of auxiliary information in sample surveys increases the efficiency of estimator for parameter of interest. In this paper, we have proposed an exponential type estimator for the population mean of a sensitive study variable based on an optional randomized response model by using the known information on a non-sensitive auxiliary variable. Expressions for the bias and the mean square error (MSE) of the proposed estimator are derived, up to first order of approximation. For this proposed estimator, efficiency comparisons with the existing estimators have been carried out both theoretically and numerically. It has been shown that our proposed estimator perform better than the existing estimators based on the same optional randomized response model even for the small correlation between auxiliary variable and study variable. To support the results obtained, we have also studied the performance of the proposed exponential estimator using simulation technique.
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