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  • Survey Methodology

Background:

  • Randomized response techniques are crucial for collecting sensitive data.
  • Existing methods have limitations in efficiency and applicability.
  • Need for advanced techniques to improve data accuracy in surveys.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose novel randomized response techniques.
  • To enhance data collection for sensitive attributes.
  • To develop unbiased estimators for population proportions.

Main Methods:

  • Application of Polya's urn process in randomized response.
  • Two distinct data collection models proposed.
  • Development of two unbiased estimators for sensitive attribute proportion.

Main Results:

  • The proposed techniques show improvements over existing methods.
  • Simulation studies confirm the effectiveness of the new estimators.
  • Comparative analysis highlights the advantages of the novel approaches.

Conclusions:

  • The Polya's urn-based randomized response models offer significant improvements.
  • The developed estimators provide accurate proportion estimates.
  • The findings are validated by simulation and a small-scale survey.