Confidentiality Seminar Series
April 28, 2003 Seminar
NOTE: If you wish to attend, please follow the attendance
instructions. Direct any questions to Neil Russell (neil.russell@bts.gov).
Date/Time: Monday, April 28, 2003, 1:30 – 3:30 PM
Location: U.S. Department of Transportation, Nassif Building, 400 7th
Street, SW, Room 3328
Title: Statistical Disclosure Limitation: Releasing Useful Data for
Statistical Analysis
Presenter: Stephen Fienberg, Department of Statistics, Center for Automated
Learning and Discovery and Center for Computer and Communications Security, Carnegie
Mellon University
Discussant: Nancy Kirkendall, Director, Statistics and Methods Group,
EIA, U.S. Department of Energy
Slides: Stephen Fienberg PDF (757KB) |
HTML (2KB) | PPT (702KB);
Nancy Kirkendall PDF
(81KB) | HTML (2KB)
| PPT (138KB)
Abstract: Disclosure limitation has often been viewed by statistical
agencies solely as a mechanism for "protecting" confidentiality, and
not in terms of providing data that are useful for statistical analysis. A true
statistical approach to disclosure limitation needs to assess the tradeoff between
preserving confidentiality and the usefulness of the released data, especially
for inferential purposes. In this presentation we discuss these issues, illustrate
them with some recent methods for categorical data, and describe some of the research
challenges that remain.
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