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The collection of data through personal interview surveys on sensitive issues such as induced abortions, drug abuse and family income is a serious issue in social sciences. Warner (1965) was the first to propose an ingenious method to collect information on such questions without disclosing the privacy of the respondents, which is called randomized response technique. In the present investigation, a new stochastic randomized response technique is proposed that elicits greater cooperation from the respondents, and can be made more efficient than Warner's (1965) and Mangat and Singh (1990) method by selecting certain parameters of the proposed randomization device.
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Acknowledgements. The author is heartily grateful to the learned referee for fruitful comments on the original version of the manuscript. He is also thankful to the Editor Prof. Dr. Urshla Gather for her kind encouragement to revise the paper according to comments given by the referee. The opinions and results discussed in this papers are of author's and not necessarily of any institute(s).
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Singh, S. A new stochastic randomized response model. Metrika 56, 131–142 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001840100168
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001840100168