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Update - October 2004
1. PUBLICATIONS
Accepted for publication:
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William Cohen, Pradeep Ravikumar, and Stephen E. Fienberg
(2004). "A secure protocol for computing string distance metrics."
To appear in Proceedings of Workshop on Privacy and Security Aspects of
Data Mining ICDM '04.
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Stephen E. Fienberg and Julie McIntyre (2004). "Data
swapping: Variations on a theme by Dalenius and Reiss." To appear
in the Journal of Official Statistics.
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Stephen E. Fienberg and Aleksandra Slavkovic: "Preserving
the confidentiality of categorical statistical data bases when releasing
information for association rules."
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Stephen E. Fienberg and Galit Shmueli: "Current and
potential statistical methods for monitoring multiple data streams for
bio-surveillance." To appear in Statistical Methods in Counter-Terrorism,
A. Wilson and D. Olwell, eds., ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied
Probability.
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Shanti Gomatam, Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil (2004).
"Data Swapping as a Decision Problem." Revised version to appear
in the Journal of Official Statistics.
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Jerome P. Reiter, Christine N. Kohnen, Alan F. Karr, Xiaodong
Lin, and Ashish P. Sanil (2004). "Secure Regression for Vertically
Partitioned, Partially Overlapping Data." To appear in ASA 2004 Proceedings.
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Stephen E. Fienberg: "Mathematical Glimpses of Statistical
Models for Frequency Data at Work," Fields Institute, Toronto, Session
Honoring Newly Elected Members of the Royal Society of Canada, October
25, 2004.
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/affiliateshome.html
4. ENAR 2005. An invited session "New Approaches
Statistical Access to Data in a Confidential World" organized by Stephen
E. Fienberg has been accepted for the ENAR 2005 Spring Meeting (Austin,
March 20-23, 2005).
The presentations:
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Alan F. Karr, Xiaodong Lin, Ashish P. Sanil , National
Institute of Statistical Sciences, and Jerome P. Reiter, ISDS, Duke University:
"Regression on Distributed Databases via Secure Multi-Party Computation."
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Aleksandra B. Slavkovic, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania
State University: "Bounds for Cell Entries in Multi-way Tables Given
Combinations of Marginals and Conditionals"
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Alessandro Rinaldo, Department of Statistics, Carnegie
Mellon University Aleksandra B. Slavkovic, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania
State University Seth Sullivant, Department of Mathematics, University
of California, Berkeley and Stephen E. Fienberg, Department of Statistics,
Carnegie Mellon University: "Computational Algebraic Geometry: A
New Tool For Statistical Disclosure Limitation and Statistical Estimation
in Categorical Data Bases"
5. JSM 2005. A NISS-organized session "Secure Statistical
Analysis of Distributed Databases" has been accepted for the invited
program for the 2005 Joint Statistical Meetings (Minneapolis, August 7-11,
2005). The session has been scheduled for Monday, August 8th from 2:00 to
3:50 PM.
Anticipated speakers and topics:
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Max Buot, NISS and Carnegie Mellon: Record linkage
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Xiaodong Lin, NISS and University of Cincinnati: Regression
for horizontally partitioned data
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Ashish Sanil, NISS: Regression for vertically partitioned
data, or classification
6. OTHER NEWS. George Duncan, Carnegie Mellon University,
has been appointed to the National Research Council committee on "Whither
Biometrics." As commissioned by the Computer Science and Telecommunications
Board, the committee will study social and policy issues of biometric authentication
technologies. The study builds on CSTB's recent project on authentication
technologies and privacy.
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