DG Update: September 2005

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Project Update - September 2005

1. PUBLICATIONS

Accepted for publication:

George T. Duncan and Stephen Roehrig (2005). "Cyclic Perturbation: Protecting Confidentiality while Preserving Data Utility in Tabular Data." Journal of Official Statistics (to appear).

Completed recently:

Stephen E. Fienberg (2005). "Privacy and confidentiality in an e-commerce world: Data warehousing, matching, and disclosure limitation." Submitted for publication.
Stephen E. Fienberg and Alessandro Rinaldo (2005)."Three centuries of categorical data analysis: Log-linear models and maximum likelihood estimation." Submitted for publication.
Alan F. Karr, Xiaodong S. Lin, Jerome P. Reiter and Ashish P. Sanil (2005). "Methods of Secure Computation and Data Integration." Paper prepared for presentation at UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality, Geneva, Switzerland, November 9-11, 2005.
Daniel Ting, Stephen E. Fienberg and Mario Trottini (2005). "ROMM Methodology for Microdata Release." Paper prepared for presentation at UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality, Geneva, Switzerland, November 9-11, 2005.

2. SAMSI PROGRAM ON NATIONAL DEFENSE AND HOMELAND SECURITY (NDHS)

A principal activity of the 2005-06 SAMSI program on NDHS is a working group on data confidentiality. (Other working groups are studying agro-terrorism and fragile systems, anomaly detection, and social networks.) The initial foci are methods for secure (multi-party and other) computation and categorical data.

This year, SAMSI is attempting to make working group partipation available to those outside the Research Triangle by means of web cams and teleconference. The DC group meets on Friday mornings from 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM Eastern time. Anyone who wishes would like to participate in the meetings should contact me to discuss details and procedures. Those who wish to monitor working group activities at greater remove can do so (or, will be able to do so soon) via the SAMSI web site (http://www.samsi.info).

3. PRESENTATIONS

At the Census Bureau, August 29. 2005:

Michael Larsen: "Hierarchical Bayesian Record Linkage"

At the National Center for Health Statistics, August 29, 2005:

Michael Larsen: "Hierarchical Bayesian Record Linkage"

At the NISS Conference "The Future of Data Analysis" in honor of Jon Kettenring, Basking Ridge, NJ, September 30, 2005:

Alan Karr: "Analysis of Integrated Data without Data Integration"

At the SAMSI Kickoff Workshop on National Defense and Homeland Security, Research Triangle Park, September 11-14:

Stephen E. Fienberg, September 11: "Privacy and Confidentiality in a Homeland Security Context: Matching and Disclosure Limitation"

At the University of Michigan, September 16, 2005

Alan Karr: "Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases without Data Integration"

4. OTHER ITEMS

NISS has been asked by the NCHS and BLS to organize a workshop on research needs associated with survey costs. Those currently involved in structuring the workshop, which is scheduled for April 18 and 19, 2006 at BLS, are Doug Williams and Larry Cox of NCHS, John Eltinge of BLS and me. A program committee is being formed, which will determine the scope, "tone," structure and product(s) of the workshop.
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