Digital
Government:
Project
Update - December 2004
1. PUBLICATIONS
Completed recently:
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Stephen E. Fienberg (2005). "Homeland insecurity:
Datamining, terrorism detection, and confidentiality." To appear
in Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, 55rd Session.
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Stephen E. Fienberg and Aleksandra B. Slavkovic (2005).
"Preserving the confidentiality of categorical statistical data bases
when releasing information for association rules." Tentatively accepted
for publication in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
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Alan F. Karr, Xiaodong Lin, Jerome P. Reiter and Ashish
P. Sanil (2005). "Secure regression on distributed databases."
To appear in "Statistical Methods in Counterterrorism" edited
by D. Olwell and A. G. Wilson (ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied
Probability).
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Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil (2005). "Data Quality
and Data Confidentiality for Microdata: Implications and Strategies."
To appear in Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, 55rd
Session.
Copies are available on the project web site:
http://www.niss.org/dgii/techreports.html
2. RELATED ITEM. The NISS Affiliates Program is planning a workshop on Total
Survey Error, to be held on March 17-18, 2005 in Washington. Details are
on the affiliates web site:
http://www.niss.org/affiliates/totalsurveyerrorworkshop200503/main.html
3. 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, Duke University:
"Regression on Distributed Databases via Secure Multi-Party Computation"
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Aleksandra B. Slavkovic, Pennsylvania State University:
"Bounds for Cell Entries in Multi-way Tables Given Combinations of
Marginals and Conditionals"
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Alessandro Rinaldo, Carnegie Mellon University Aleksandra
B. Slavkovic, Pennsylvania State University, Seth Sullivant, University
of California Berkeley, and Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University:
"Computational Algebraic Geometry: A New Tool For Statistical Disclosure
Limitation and Statistical Estimation in Categorical Data Bases"
4. ISI 2005 (Sydney, April 5-12, 2005). Project-generated talks include:
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Stephen E. Fienberg: "Homeland Insecurity: Datamining,
Terrorism Detection, and Confidentiality"
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Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil: "Data Quality and
Data Confidentiality for Microdata: Implications and Strategies"
5. JSM 2005. A NISS-organized session "Secure Statistical Analysis
of Distributed Databases" is on 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. Speakers and titles:
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Max Buot, NISS and Carnegie Mellon: "Statistical
Analysis in the Presence of Matching Uncertainty"
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Xiaodong Lin, NISS and University of Cincinnati: "Privacy
Preserving Statistical Analysis for Horizontally Partitioned Data Sets"
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Ashish Sanil, NISS: "Privacy-Preserving Statistical
Analyses of Distributed Data Using Data Perturbations"
6. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
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