DG Update: August 2004

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Project Update - August 2004

1. PUBLICATIONS

Accepted for publication:

Shanti Gomatam, Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil (2004). A Risk-Utility Framework for Categorical Data Swapping. To appear in the Journal of Official Statistics.
Jerome P. Reiter and Christine N. Kohnen (2004). Categorical data regression diagnostics for remote servers. To appear in the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.

Appeared recently:

G. T. Duncan and S. L. Stokes (2004). Disclosure Risk vs. Data Utility: The R-U Confidentiality Map as Applied to Topcoding. Chance, 17(3), 16-20.
S. E. Fienberg and A. B. Slavkovic (2004). Making the release of confidential data from multi-way tables count. Chance, 17(3), 5-10.
A. F. Karr, X. Lin, J. P. Reiter and A. P. Sanil (2004). Analysis of integrated data without data integration. Chance, 17(3), 26-29.
J. P. Reiter (2004). New approaches to data dissemination: A glimpse into the future (?). Chance, 17(3), 11-15.
A. P. Sanil and A. F. Karr and X. Lin and J. P. Reiter (2004). Privacy preserving regression modelling via distributed computation. Proc. Tenth ACM SIGKDD Internat. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 677-682.

Completed recently and submitted to the Workshop on Privacy and Security Aspects of Data Mining (November 1, 2004, Brighton, UK), held in Conjunction with the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining:

Stephen E. Fienberg: Datamining and Disclosure Limitation for Categorical Statistical Databases
Pradeep Ravikumar, William W. Cohen, Stephen E. Fienberg: A Secure Protocol for Computing String Distance Metrics
Aleksandra B. Slavkovic: Statistical Disclosure Limitation with Released Marginals and Conditionals for Contingency Tables

2. PRESENTATIONS

JSM 2004 (Toronto, August 8-12)

Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University: Characterizing Multi-way Contingency Tables With Applications to Confidentiality and Statistical Disclosure Limitation. Co-author: Aleksandra B. Slavkovic
Jerome Reiter, Duke University: Disclosure Risk and Data Utility for Remote-access Regression Servers. Co-authors: Ashish Sanil, NISS; Alan F. Karr, NISS; Shanti Gomatam, US Food and Drug Administration
Ashish Sanil, NISS: Inference-based Measures of Utility for Contingency Tables
S. Lynne Stokes, Southern Methodist University: Data Swapping: Disclosure Risk vs. Data Utility. Co-authors: George Duncan, Carnegie Mellon University; Sallie Keller-McNulty, Los Alamos National Laboratory

KDD 2004 (Seattle, August 22-25)

Ashish Sanil, NISS: Privacy Preserving Regression Modelling via Distributed Computation. Co-authors: Alan Karr, NISS; Xiaodong Lin, NISS and SAMSI; Jerome Reiter, Duke University

3. RELATED ITEMS. The NISS Affiliates Program is planning a workshop on Total Survey Error, to be held in February in Washington. Details will appear soon on the affiliates web site:

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

The workshop is also part of the 2004-05 SAMSI program on Latent Variable Models in the Social Sciences:

http://www.samsi.info/200405/socsci/socsci-home.html

4. OTHER NEWS

Stephen Fienberg is a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Review of the National Immunization Program's Research Procedures and Data Sharing Program.
Aleksandra Slavkovic successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, "Statistical Disclosure Limitation Beyond the Margins," in the Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University on August 13. She has joined the Department of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University as an assistant professor.

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