Comparative Study of Balanced Incomplete Block Designs: For Block Total Response Technique - Softcover

Aslam, Sher; Zafar Yab, Mohammad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3844310436 ISBN 13: 9783844310436

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Randomized response technique has decades old history. Warner (1965) is the founder of this technique. Block total response technique is one of these methods that were initially proposed by Smith et al. (1974). Raghavarao and Federer (1979) used the theory of balanced incomplete block designs to determine the structure of the questionnaires in their block total response technique (symmetric designs). Smith and Street (2003) determined the best designs in terms of minimum variance; used to estimate the proportions of 3 to 6 sensitive questions using the block total response procedure given a maximum total number of 13 questions. In this study, some new designs are explored for 3 to 6 sensitive questions given a maximum total number of 13 questions while extending the work of Smith and Street (2003) to estimate the proportion of population for 3 to 10 sensitive questions given a maximum total number of 25 questions. The proposed design for six sensitive questions has smaller variance than variance obtained from the un-matched count technique of Dalton et al. (1994).

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About the Author

The authors are PhD scholar at National College of Business Administration and Economics (NCBA&E), Lahore, Pakistan and professor of statistics at the University of Gujrat, Pakistan respectively. Their area of research is design and analysis of experiment.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3844310436
• ISBN 13: 9783844310436
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92