NASS SYSTEM. The system is now being turned over to NASS
for further experimentation and eventual implementation. The current prototype
remains available at niss.cnidr.org.
ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING. The project advisory council (DGAC) met on January
30 in Washington. Members present were Steven Cohen (BLS), Martin David (Wisconsin;
co-chair), Carol House (NASS), Marilyn McMillen (NCES), Alvan Zarate (NCHS)
and Laura Zayatz (Census). Project personnel present were Stephen Fienberg
(CMU), Ashish Sanil (NISS) and me, as well as Cathryn Dippo (BLS) and Philip
Steel (Census).
The role of the DGAC is to provide candid, in-depth advice on technical and
user-centric issues associated with the project, in a less formal setting
than the regular briefings presented to agency partners.
The meeting focused on three threads of the research:
Geographic aggregation (as in the NASS system)
Methods for computing bounds on table entries from arbitrary collections
of marginal subtables
Table servers the dynamic query systems for disseminating marginal subtables.
PRESENTATION. January 19, 2001, at the Department of Statistics, University
of California at Santa Barbara:
Stephen Fienberg: "Bounds and Exact Distributions for Multi-Way
Tables of Counts"
PAPER APPEARED
"Disseminating Information but Protecting Confidentiality," by Alan
Karr, Jaeyong Lee, Ashish Sanil, Joel Hernandez, Sousan Karimi and Karen Litwin.
IEEE Computer 34 (2) 36-37 (2001). Also available at www.niss.org/dg/technicalreports.html.
