DG Update: September 2004

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Project Update - September 2004

1. PUBLICATIONS

Accepted for publication:

William Cohen, Stephen E. Fienberg and Pradeep Ravikumar (2004). Discussion of a paper by J. M. Abowd and L. Vilhuber: The Sensitivity of Economic Statistics to Coding Errors in Personal Identifiers.
To appear in J. Bus. Econ. Statist. 22.
Stephen E. Fienberg (2004). Datamining and disclosure limitation for categorical statistical databases.
To appear in Proceedings of Workshop on Privacy and Security Aspects of Data Mining, ICDM 2004
N. Eriksson, S. E. Fienberg, A. Rinaldo and S. Sullivant (2004). On the nonexistence of maximum likelihood estimates for hierarchical log-linear models.
To appear in the Journal of Symbolic Computation.
Aleksandra B. Slavkovic and S. Sullivant (2004). The space of compatible full conditionals is a unimodular toric variety.
To appear in the Journal of Symbolic Computation.

Completed recently:

Alan F. Karr, Xiaodong Lin, Jerome P. Reiter and Ashish P. Sanil (2004). Privacy Preserving Analysis of Vertically Partitioned Data Using Secure Matrix Products.
Submitted to the Journal of Official Statistics.

Copies are available on the project web site: http://www.niss.org/dgii/techreports.html

2. PRESENTATIONS

JSM 2004 (Toronto, August 8-12)

William.Cohen: Discussion of JBES Invited paper by J. M. Abowd and L. Vilhuber, "The Sensitivity of Economic Statistics to Coding Errors in Personal Identifiers"

3. RELATED ITEMS. The NISS Affiliates Program is planning a workshop on Total Survey Error, to be held on March 17-18, 2005 in Washington. Details will appear soon on the affiliates web site: http://www.niss.org/affiliates/affiliatesmain.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

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