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Estimating Marihuana Usage Using Randomized Response—Some Paradoxical Findings
Author(s) -
Brewer K. R. W.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
australian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-842X
pISSN - 0004-9581
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.1981.tb00771.x
Subject(s) - randomized response , randomized controlled trial , psychology , population , randomized experiment , statistics , medicine , mathematics , environmental health , surgery , estimator
Summary A randomized response technique was used in parallel with direct questioning on the (illegal) usage of marihuana in a population survey of Canberra. Estimates of usage from the randomized questions were much lower than those obtained directly. A number of possible explanations for these paradoxical findings are considered.