National Institute of Statistical Sciences

• Fienberg, S. E., and Makov, U. E.: Uniqueness and Disclosure Risk: Urn Models and Simulation
  
  
• Lee, J., Holloman, C., Karr, A. F., and Sanil, A. P.: Analysis of Aggregated Data in Survey Sampling with Application to Fertilizer/Pesticide Usage Surveys
  
  
• Trottini, M.: A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Data Disclosure Problems

Copies are available at www.niss.org/dg/technicalreports.html

2. PRESENTATIONS at the 53rd Session of the International Statistical Institute (Seoul):

• Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil: "Web Systems that Disseminate Information but Protect Confidential Data"
  
  
• Stephen E. Fienberg and Margo Anderson: "US Census Confidentiality: Perception and Reality"

Both are at www.niss.org/dg/presentations.html

3. NEW POSTDOCS. One of this year's two new postdocs, Shanti Gomatam, arrived at NISS in August. She is on leave from her faculty position at the University of South Florida, and will be involved in this project as well as NISS research on data quality. Adrian Dobra, who is completing his Ph.D. in statistics at Carnegie Mellon University under the direction of Stephen Fienberg, will arrive at NISS in mid-September.