DG Update: November, 2000

National Institute of Statistical Sciences

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Project Update - November, 2000

1. NASS PROTOTYPE. The current version (with new functionality and improvements to the GUI) is available at niss.cnidr.org. A briefing for NASS personnel is scheduled for December 7, 2000.

2. PRESENTATIONS, available at www.niss.org/dg/presentations.html:

November 8, 2000, at the FCSM Statistical Policy Seminar "Integrating Federal Statistical Information and Processes:
- Alan Karr and Sallie Keller-McNulty: Web Systems that Disseminate Information but Protect Confidential Data
November 28, 2000, at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan:
- George Duncan and Sallie Keller-McNulty: The Impact of Data Swapping on Confidentiality and Data Utility

3. TABLE SERVERS. The schema for the query history database is complete. Skeletal code for handling large (40-dimensional) tables is being written. Other design specifications are being developed.

4. TECHNIQUES AND SOFTWARE FOR BOUNDS. Fienberg and Dobra have completed initial development of scalable methods to compute bounds on table entries. Dobra has written software implementing the methods, which will be
incorporated in the NISS table server.

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