Digital Government:

Project Update - February 2003

• Stephen E. Fienberg. Discussion of a paper by M. Carlson and M. Salabasis, "A data-swapping technique using ranks---A method for disclosure control." Research in Official Statistics (2003), to appear.
  
  
• Shanti Gomatam, Alan F. Karr and Ashish Sanil, "A Risk-Utility Framework for Categorical Data Swapping." Submitted to the Journal of Official Statistics.
  
  
• Shanti Gomatam, Alan F. Karr, Chunhua "Charlie" Liu and Ashish P. Sanil, "Data Swapping: A Risk-Utility Framework and Web Service Implementation." Submitted for presentation at dgo.2003.

• Ashish P. Sanil, Shanti Gomatam, Alan F. Karr and Chunhua "Charlie" Liu, "NISS WebSwap: A Web Service for Data Swapping." Under review by the Journal of Statistical Software.

2. NSF WORKSHOP. George Duncan was an invited speaker and participant in the NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Research for Homeland Security, which was held in La Jolla, California on February 25-27, 2003.

3. GROSTAT VI. Aleksandra Slavkovic, an RA on the project at Carnegie Mellon, attended the GROSTAT VI Workshop and participated International School on Algebraic Statistics in Menton, France, February 17-20.

4.BIBLIOGRAPHY ON MATCHING AND RECORD LINKAGE. William Cohen, Pradeep Ravikumar (a graduate student at CMU) and Stephen Fienberg have developed a description of and bibliography on statistical and machine learning approaches to matching and record linkage which is now in shareable form with others on the project:

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/matching/

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pradeepr/bibl/main/

5. AIM WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL ALGEBRAIC STATISTICS. Within a short time, additional information will be available at

http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/compalgstat.html