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Abstract | ||
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We consider the problem of conducting a survey with the goal of obtaining an unbiased estimator of some population statistic when individuals have unknown costs (drawn from a known prior) for participating in the survey. Individuals must be compensated for their participation and are strategic agents, and so the payment scheme must incentivize truthful behavior. We derive optimal truthful mechanisms for this problem for the two goals of minimizing the variance of the estimator given a fixed budget, and minimizing the expected cost of the survey given a fixed variance goal. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.1145/2229012.2229076 | EC |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
expected cost,unbiased estimator,truthful survey,strategic agent,payment scheme,fixed budget,population statistic,fixed variance goal,unknown cost,truthful behavior,optimal truthful mechanism,privacy,mechanism design | Journal | abs/1203.0353 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
20 | 1.40 | 2 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Roth | 1 | 1937 | 110.48 |
| Grant Schoenebeck | 2 | 509 | 39.48 |