National Institute of Statistical Sciences

• George T. Duncan, Sallie A. Keller-McNulty and S. Lynne Stokes (2001) Disclosure Risk vs. Data Utility: The R-U Confidentiality Map. Submitted to Management Science.
  
  
• Fienberg, S. E. and Makov, U. E. (2001). Uniqueness and disclosure risk: Urn models and simulation. In Bayesian Methods With Applications to Science, Policy and Official Statistics (Selected papers from ISBA 2000), Monographs in Official Statistics, Eurostat, 135-144.
  
  
• Alan F. Karr, Adrian Dobra and Ashish P. Sanil (2001). Table servers: Protecting confidentiality in tabular data releases. Submitted by invitation to a special issue of the Communications of the ACM on digital government (January, 2003).

All are available at http://www.niss.org/dg/technicalreports.html

2. SPECIAL PUBLICATION

The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences has been published. Stephen Fienberg served as a co-editor for Statistics (with over 150 entries) and George Duncan wrote the entry on confidentiality. For information, see http://www.iesbs.com/

3. PRESENTATIONS

Keynote Address to the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Research Conference, Rosslyn VA:

• Stephen Fienberg: The Interplay Between Research Innovation and Federal Statistical Practice (November 14, 2001)

Demonstration at the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Research Conference, Rosslyn VA:

• Ashish Sanil and Alan Karr: Table Servers (November 16, 2001)

Department of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Stephen Fienberg: Conditional Distributions, Log-linear Models, and Disclosure Limitation (November 20, 2001)

Hong Kong Statistical Association

• Stephen Fienberg: The Interplay Between Research Innovation and Federal Statistical Practice (November 21, 2001)

4. HOLIDAY WISHES. Best wishes to all for the holidays and for a safe and successful new year!