Randomized Response Techniques: Certain Thought-Provoking Aspects

本書提供了關於隨機回應技術（RRT）的最新觀點。它討論了處理敏感和機密問題的查詢數據的RRT最適和高效的程序，包括處理無限和有限人口設置的方法。本書旨在激發抽樣專家對RRT的重新關注，並通過解決缺失的主題並結合廣泛的貢獻者的作品，促進一個有欣賞價值的學術環境，並激發對RRT的改革和修正觀點的啟發。隨著本書的展開，讀者將獲得有關RRT及其應用的寶貴見解，使他們處於這個引人入勝的研究領域的前沿。

自從S.L. Warner於1965年提出RRT以來，關於RRT的文獻已經大幅增長。儘管已經出版了幾本關於這個主題的書籍，但現有的RRT文獻仍然缺少兩個關鍵主題。本書旨在解決這些缺口，並為該領域的好奇讀者提供寶貴的見解。本書是統計學家和生物統計學家、市場研究人員、運營研究人員、民意調查人員、社會學家、政治學家、經濟學家以及這些領域的高年級本科生和研究生的必讀之書。

Arijit Chaudhuri is Honorary Visiting Professor at the Applied Statistics Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India, since 1st September 2005. Professor Chaudhuri holds a Ph.D. in Statistics in the area of sample surveys from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, from where he also graduated. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher for two years at the University of Sydney (1973-1975), Australia. He retired as a professor from the ISI, Kolkata, India, on 31st August 2002, where he then continued to work as the CSIR Emeritus Scientist for three years up to 31st August 2005. His areas of research include mean square error estimation in multi-stage sampling, analytical study of complex surveys, randomized response surveys and small area estimation. In 2000, he was elected as the President of the Section of Statistics for the Indian Science Congress and worked for the Government of West Bengal for 12 years as the Committee Chairman for the improvement of crop statistics. He has also worked with the Government of India to apply sophisticated methods of small area estimation in improving state and union territory level estimates of various parameters of national importance. He has worked on various global assignments upon invitation, including visiting professorships at several universities and statistical offices in the USA, Canada, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Israel, Cyprus, Turkey, Cuba and South Africa, from 1979-2009. He has successfully mentored 10 Ph.D. students and published more than 150 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, a few of them jointly with his students and colleagues. He is the author of 11 books on survey sampling.

Sanghamitra Pal is Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics, West Bengal State University (WBSU), India, since 2009. She has completed her Ph.D. in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, in 2004. Earlier, she servedas a research scientist from 2001-2009 at River Research Institute (RRI), the Government of West Bengal, India. She also worked as Research Associate and a Visiting Scientist at the Applied Statistics Unit, ISI, Kolkata, from January 2005 - July 2006. She is guiding two Ph.D. students in the area of sample surveys at WBSU and has published research articles in several reputed journals. She organized an invited session on adaptive cluster sampling at the International Statistical Institute Conference in Durban, South Africa (2009); a sample survey session at the Indian Science Congress (2012); and presented papers at international conferences in South Africa, New Zealand, Germany, France, Thailand, Singapore, as well as India. She was involved in the professional attachment training (PAT) program of sample survey with ICAR-NAARM, Hyderabad, India. Besides teaching and research, Dr. Pal is working as a nodal officer for the All India Survey of Higher Education cell of WBSU.

Dipika Patra is Faculty at Seth Anandram Jaipuria College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, since August 2014. Moreover, she is involved in postgraduate teaching at the Department of Statistics, West Bengal State University (WBSU), Barasat, India. She earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from WBSU, in 2022. She has more than 10 publications in peer-reviewed journals: Metron and Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation and Statistics in Transition. She ranked third in the Bose-Nandi award from Calcutta Statistical Association, in 2019.

Arijit Chaudhuri自2005年9月1日起擔任印度統計學院應用統計單位的名譽訪問教授。Chaudhuri教授在印度加爾各答的加爾各答大學獲得統計學博士學位，並在那裡畢業。他曾在澳大利亞悉尼大學擔任博士後研究員兩年（1973年至1975年）。他於2002年8月31日從印度統計學院退休，並在2005年8月31日之前的三年中繼續擔任CSIR名譽科學家。他的研究領域包括多階段抽樣中的均方誤差估計、複雜調查的分析研究、隨機回應調查和小區域估計。2000年，他當選為印度科學大會統計學部門主席，並在西孟加拉邦政府擔任改善作物統計的委員會主席長達12年。他還與印度政府合作，應用先進的小區域估計方法改善各個參數的州和聯邦層面估計。他應邀在全球各地進行各種任務，包括在美國、加拿大、英國、德國、荷蘭、瑞典、以色列、塞浦路斯、土耳其、古巴和南非的多所大學和統計機構擔任訪問教授，時間從1979年至2009年。他成功指導了10名博士生，並在同行評審期刊上發表了150多篇研究論文，其中幾篇與他的學生和同事合作。他是有關調查抽樣的11本書的作者。

Sanghamitra Pal自2009年起擔任印度西孟加拉邦州立大學統計學系的助理教授。她於2004年在印度統計學院獲得統計學博士學位。此前，她在2001年至2009年期間在西孟加拉邦政府的河流研究所擔任研究科學家。她還曾在2005年1月至2006年7月期間在印度統計學院應用統計單位擔任研究助理和訪問科學家。她在WBSU指導了兩名關於調查抽樣的博士生，並在多個知名期刊上發表了研究文章。她在南非德班的國際統計學會會議上組織了一個關於自適應集群抽樣的邀請會議（2009年），在印度科學大會上組織了一個樣本調查會議（2012年），並在南非、新西蘭、德國、法國、泰國、新加坡和印度的國際會議上發表論文。她還參與了印度農業研究院國家農業研究管理學院的專業附屬培訓計劃。除了教學和研究，Pal博士還擔任WBSU全印度高等教育調查的聯絡官。

Dipika Patra自2014年8月起在印度西孟加拉邦加爾各答的Seth Anandram Jaipuria College擔任教職員，同時還在西孟加拉邦州立大學統計學系進行研究生教學。她於2022年在WBSU獲得統計學博士學位。她在同行評審期刊《Metron》、《Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation》和《Statistics in Transition》上發表了10多篇文章。她在2019年的加爾各答統計學協會的Bose-Nandi獎中排名第三。