RRreg: An R Package for Correlation and Regression Analyses of Randomized Response Data

2018
The randomized response (RR) technique was developed to improve the validity of measures assessing attitudes, behaviors, and attributes threatened by social desirability bias. The RR removes any direct link between individual responses and the sensitive attribute to maximize the anonymity of respondents and, in turn, to elicit more honest responding. Since multivariate analyses are no longer feasible using standard methods, we present the R package RRreg that allows for multivariate analyses of RR data in a user-friendly way. We show how to compute bivariate correlations, how to predict an RR variable in an adapted logistic regression framework (with or without random effects), and how to use RR predictors in a modified linear regression. In addition, the package allows for power analysis and robustness simulations. To facilitate the application of these methods, we illustrate the benefits of multivariate methods for RR variables using an empirical example.
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL SOFTWARE
页码:1-29|卷号:85|期号:2
ISSN:1548-7660
收录类型
SSCI
发表日期
2018
学科领域
循证社会科学-方法
国家
德国
语种
英语
DOI
10.18637/jss.v085.i02
其他关键词
ASKING SENSITIVE QUESTIONS; LOGISTIC-REGRESSION; ENHANCING DRUG; ONLINE SURVEYS; PREVALENCE; VALIDATION; MODELS; NONCOMPLIANCE; DISABILITY; EXTENSION
被引频次(WOS)
17
被引更新日期
2022-01
来源机构
University of Mannheim Ulm University
关键词
randomized response indirect questioning survey design social desirability sensitive questions compliance power analysis