Digital Government:

Project Update - August 2005

• Stephen E. Fienberg and Julie McIntyre, "Data Swapping: Variations on a Theme by Dalenius and Reiss," Journal of Official Statistics, Vol.21, No.2, 2005. pp. 309-323.

• Stephen E. Fienberg and Aleksandra B. Slavkovic, "Preserving the confidentiality of categorical statistical data bases when releasing information for association rules," Datamining and Knowledge Discovery, 11, (2005).
  
  
• A. F. Karr, X. Lin, A. P. Sanil and J. P. Reiter (2005). Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases. Statistical Methods in Counterterrorism, D. Olwell and A. G. Wilson, eds., ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability.
  
  
• A. F. Karr, J. Feng, X. Lin, J. P. Reiter, A. P. Sanil and S. S. Young (2005). Secure analysis of distributed chemical databases without data integration. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design.
  
  
• Galit Shmueli and Stephen E. Fienberg, "Current and potential statistical methods for monitoring multiple data streams for bio-surveillance," Statistical Methods in Counterterrorism, A. Wilson and D. Olwell, eds., ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability.

• Christine Kohnen, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University: "Using Multiply-Imputed, Synthetic Data to Facilitate Data Sharing," directed by Jerry Reiter.
  
  
• Alessandro Rinaldo, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University: "On Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Contingency Tables," directed by Stephen Fienberg

• Aleksandra Slavkovic: "Statistical Methods for Data Privacy and Confidentiality"

• Aleksandra Slavkovic: "Statistical Disclosure Limitation for Contingency Tables"

• Max Buot (CMU): "Statistical Analysis in the Presence of Matching Uncertainty"
  
  
• Xiaodong Lin (Cincinnati): "Privacy Preserving Statistical Analysis for Horizontally Partitioned Data Sets"
  
  
• Ashish Sanil (Bristol Myers Squibb): "Privacy-Preserving Statistical Analyses of Distributed Data Using Data Perturbations"
  
  
• Stephen Fienberg (CMU): "Introductory Overview Lecture on Data Confidentiality" and panelist for "National Security Issues in the Design and Analysis of Social Network Studies"
  
  
• Michael Larsen (Iowa State): "Advances in Record Linkage Theory"
  
  
• Jerome Reiter (Duke): "Methods of Secure Computation and Data Integration"
  
  
• Stephen F. Roehrig (CMU): Discussant for Session on "Research Access to Confidential Data for Analysis"
  
  
• Aleksandra Slavkovic (Penn State): "Effects of Released Marginals and Conditionals in Multiway Tables on Disclosure Limitation"
  
  
• Mario Trottini (University of Alicante): "Decision Models for Data Disclosure Limitation Problems"
  

• Stephen E. Fienberg, "Confidentiality and Data Access: What are the Statistician's Ethical Obligations and Responsibilities?"

• Francisco Vera, Ph.D., Statistics, University of South Carolina
  
  
• Mi-Ja Woo, Ph.D., Statistics, University of Georgia
  

• George Duncan served on the Panel on Data Access for Research Purposes of the Committee on National Statistics, National Academies of Science. The final report, "Expanding Access to Research Data: Reconciling Risks and Opportunities", was released on August 31.
  
  
• Mario Trottini's 2004 Doctoral dissertation from Carnegie Mellon received honorable mention as a finalist for the 2004 Savage Award from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis and the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association.