DG Update: November 2003

1. PUBLICATIONS. Completed recently:

Stephen E. Fienberg (2003.) "Confidentiality and statistical disclosure limitation." To appear in CREST Newsletter, INSEE.

Stephen E. Fienberg and Christian Robert (2004). "Discussion of a paper by J. Wakefield, `Ecological inference for 2 x 2 tables.'" To appear in J. Roy. Statist. Soc. A 147.

S. Gomatam, A. F. Karr, J. P. Reiter and A. P. Sanil (2003). "Data dissemination and disclosure limitation in a world without microdata: A risk-utility framework for remote access analysis servers." Submitted to Statistical Science.

Stephen E. Fienberg, "Confidentiality and disclosure limitation." In Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Academic Press, (2003).

Copies are available for download on the NISS web site, at

http://www.niss.org/dgii/techreports.html

2. PRESENTATIONS

Stephen E. Fienberg, "Log-linear Models and Computational Algebra: Old Wine in New Bottles?" Seminaire Parisien de Statistique, November 24, 2003.

3. DATA CONFIDENTIALITY TECHNOLOGY DAY. Presentations from the November 20 Data Confidentiality Technology Day are available on the NISS web site, at

http://www.niss.org/affiliates/dctechday200311/dctechday200311.html

These include:

- Alan F. Karr, "Introduction and Overview"

- Ashish Sanil, "The NISS Data Swapping Toolkit"

- Aleksandra Slavkovic, "Tabular Data: Releases of Conditionals and Marginals"

- Stephen Roehrig, "Cyclic Perturbation: Protecting Confidentiality in Tabular Data"

- Jerome Reiter "Disclosure Risk and Data Utility for Remote Access Servers"

- Alan F. Karr, "Secure Data Integration"

- Alan F. Karr, "Future Plans"

4. DATA SWAPPING TOOLKIT. Reminder: the recently released NISS Data Swapping Toolkit (DSTK) is available for download on the NISS web site, at

http://www.niss.org/software/dstk.html

5. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!

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