DG Update: November 2005

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Project Update - November 2005

1. PUBLICATIONS

Appeared in print:

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), 155-180. Copy available at
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~fienberg/sesa-datamining-2005.pdf
Stephen E. Fienberg "Data mining and the hunt for terrorists" Focus, 35, No. 2, 2005. Copy available at
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~fienberg/huntforterrorists-focus-2005.pdf

Revision submitted:

Stephen E. Fienberg and Alessandro Rinaldo (2006). "Three centuries of categorical data analysis: Log-linear models and maximum likelihood estimation." Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Special Issue on Occasion of S. N. Roy Centennial.

Completed recently:

Alan F. Karr, William J. Fulp, Xiaodong Lin, Jerome P. Reiter, Francisco Vera, S. Stanley Young (2005). "Secure, Privacy-Preserving Analysis of Distributed Databases." Submitted to special issue of Technometrics on information technology.

2. PRESENTATIONS

Presentations by DG-supported projects at the NISS Annual Meeting, Research Triangle Park, November 4, 2005:

Anna Oganian: "SDC Methods and their Combinations"
Francisco Vera: "Secure Statistics Software"
Mi-Ja Woo: "New Measures of Data Utility"

UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality, Geneva, Switzerland, November 9-11, 2005:

Stephen E. Fienberg and Mario Trottini: "ROMM Methodology for Microdata Release." (paper co-authored by Daniel Ting and Mario Trottini).
Jerome Reiter: "Methods for Secure Computation and Data Integration."
Mario Trottini: "Statistical Confidentiality in Longitudinal Linked Data: Objectives and Attributes."

3. HELD OVER: MICRODATA TOOLKIT. The prospectus for a NISS Microdata Toolkit (MDTK), which is mentioned in item 2 above, is available on the "Presentations" page of the project web site: http://www.niss.org/dgii/presentations.html. Given the generally positive response at the October 18 CDAC meeting, this effort is likely to proceed. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

4. SAMSI DC WORKING GROUP. The data confidentiality working group of the SAMSI 2005 program on national defense and homeland security maintains public a web page at http://www.samsi.info/200506/ndhs/workinggroup/dc/, at which its activities can be followed.

5. HAPPY HOLIDAYS to all! For those who wonder what institute directors really do, see http://www.niss.org/photogallery/turkey2005/turkey05.html.

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