Multivariate Regression Analysis for the Item Count Technique

The item count technique is a survey methodology that is designed to elicit respondents’ truthful answers to sensitive questions such as racial prejudice and drug use. The method is also known as the list experiment or the unmatched count technique and is an alternative to the commonly used randomized response method. In this article, I propose new nonlinear least squares and maximum likelihood estimators for efficient multivariate regression...