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. NEW PUBLICATIONS.

• Fienberg, S. E. (2000). Confidentiality and data protection through disclosure limitation: Evolving principles and technical advances. The Philippine Statistician 49 1-12.
  
  
• Dobra, A., and Fienberg, S. E. (2001). Bounds for cell entries in contingency tables induced by fixed marginal totals with applications to disclosure limitation. To appear in UNECE Statistical Journal.
  
  
• Dobra, A., and Fienberg, S. E. (2002). Bounds for cell entries in contingency tables induced by fixed marginal totals. To appear in Proceedings of Conference on Foundation of Statistical Inference and Its Applications. Springer-Verlag, New York

All are available shortly www.niss.org/dg/technicalreports.html

3. PRESENTATIONS

• Grostat V Conference (on applications of computational commutative
  algebra to statistics) September 4-6, 2001, New Orleans: Stephen Fienberg: Conditional Distributions, Log-linear Models, and Disclosure Limitation Methods.

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

4. NEW POSTDOC. The second of this year's two new postdocs, Adrian Dobra, who is completing his Ph.D. in statistics at Carnegie Mellon University under the direction of Stephen Fienberg, arrived at NISS in mid-September. Adrian will be involved in this project as well as NISS research on data quality. In particular, he will play a lead role of construction of table servers.

5. NEW STUDENT. Krishna Kumaraswamy, who is a graduate of ISI, Calcutta, and is enrolled as a graduate student in the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery at Carnegie Mellon University, is now working on the project.

6. NISS NEWSLETTER. The October 2001 issue (Volume 2, Number 2) is now available on the NISS Web site, at www.niss.org/newsletter.html