Indirect Methods of Data Collection and Analysis from Surveys

Raghunath Arnab is Honorary Professor at the Department of Statistics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Earlier, he served as Professor at various universities including the University of Botswana; the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India; the R.K. Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, India; Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; the University of Nirobi, Kenya; the National University of Lesotho, Lesotho; the University of Ibadan, Nigeria; and the University of Ife, Nigeria. He also visited the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University, USA, and the University of Alberta, Canada, among others.Born in India, Prof. Arnab obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, in 1981; M.Sc. in Statistics; and B.Sc. Honors in Statistics from the University of Calcutta, respectively, in 1972 and 1970. With more than 47 years of teaching and research experience, he has taught several courses in statistics, mathematics, and business statistics and supervised several Ph.D. and master’s students. He served as External Examiner and Assessor for several universities. He also served as External Examiner for several Ph.D. and master’s theses.

• Chapter 1 Randomized Response Techniques: Early Developments.- Chapter 2 Polychotomous Randomized Response Model.- Chapter 3 RR Techniques for Quantitative Characteristics.- Chapter 4 Unified Sampling Theory.- Chapter 5 Randomized Response Technique for Complex Survey Designs.