This study addresses a key assumption made while using traditional Randomized Response models in survey sampling when the question being asked pertains to a sensitive top[...]

We give an overview of methods used to track moving objects in video and describe how information about animal behavior can be extracted from tracking data. We discuss ho[...]

Aim To determine if younger and older hospital employed nurses have differences in their self-reported health, health related productivity and quality of care.Background [...]

In 2010, the United States (US) enacted a restaurant menu labeling law. The law also applied to vending machine companies selling food. Research suggested that providing [...]

Objectives: This study tested whether days on campus, financial access through a meal plan, and health consciousness were associated with number of meals that college stu[...]

The first order approximation of the theoretical mean square error and assumption of bivariate normality are very often used for the ratio type estimators for the populat[...]

Disasters highlight the vulnerability of people who have limited access to resources. However, based on research from Mexico, we seek-in the context of disasters-to quali[...]

The randomized response technique (RRT) was first introduced to estimate prevalence of sensitive characteristics for binary response variables. Extensions to quantitative[...]

This study mainly consists of three important issues we face in survey sampling: social desirability bias, measurement errors, and non-response. In this dissertation, we [...]

Social Desirability Bias (SDB) is the tendency in respondents to answer questions untruthfully in the hope of giving good impression to others. SDB occurs when the survey[...]

Objective: Although research has been conducted on how nurse staffing levels affect outcomes, there has been little investigation into how the health-related productivity[...]

Anthropologists require methods for accurately estimating stature and body mass from the human skeleton. Age-structured, generalized Least Squares (LS) regression formula[...]

In this dissertation, we propose a new Randomized Response Technique (RRT) model that incorporates many recent advancements in RRT research – Mixture, Optionality, and En[...]

Ratio estimation is a parameter estimation technique that uses a known auxiliary variable that is correlated with the study variable. In many situations, the primary vari[...]

Social Desirability Bias (SDB) is the tendency in respondents to answer questions untruthfully in the hope of giving good impression to others. SDB occurs when the survey[...]

Social desirability bias (SDB) is defined as a tendency in people to present themselves in a more socially acceptable light, when faced with sensitive questions. People w[...]

The aim of this dissertation is to study the problem of variance estimation for sensitive variables. The problem of variance estimation in the non-sensitive variable case[...]

We explore different variations of the Greenberg Unrelated Question RRT model for a binary response (yes or no). In one variation, we allow m independent responses from e[...]