Silvio Tafuri, Maria Serena Gallone, Domenico Martinelli, Rosa Prato, Maria Chironna, Cinzia Germinario
Report of a pertussis outbreak in a low coverage booster vaccination group of otherwise healthy children in Italy
BMC infectious diseases
surveys contain direct questions sensitive topics participants may provide true answers indirect question techniques incentivize truthful answers concealing participants responses various ways crosswise model aims pairing sensitive target item nonsensitive baseline item asking participants indicate whether responses two items different selection baseline item crucial guarantee participants perceived actual privacy enable reliable estimates sensitive trait research makes following contributions first describes integrated methodology select baseline item based conceptual statistical considerations resulting methodology distinguishes four statistical models second proposes novel bayesian estimation methods implement models third shows new models introduced improve efficiency common applications crosswise model may relax required statistical assumptions three contributions facilitate applying methodology variety settings empirical application attitudes toward lgbt issues shows potential crosswise model interactive app python matlab codes support broader adoption model