STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE CONTROL / LIMITATION  (SDC / SDL)

Related Technical Information  From Ramesh A. Dandekar

·         "Synthetic Tabular Data: A Better Alternative To Complementary Data Suppression - Original Manuscript Dated December 2001", Ramesh A. Dandekar,  Manuscript Energy Information Administration, U. S. Department of Energy. Also available from CENEX-SDC Project International Conference, PSD2006, Rome, Italy, December 13-15, 2006, Companion CD Proceedings ISBN: 84-690-2100-1.      

·         "Synthetic Tabular Data: An Alternative To Complementary Cell Suppression", Ramesh A. Dandekar and Lawrence H. Cox (2002),  Manuscript, Energy Information Administration, U. S. Department of Energy.   PRESENTATION SLIDES Prepared for Washington Statistical Society Technical Seminar Program on October 15, 2002. Slides 34 to 36 and 41 to 43 demonstrate the statistical compatibility of the plus/minus heuristic-based CTA data with the original data in terms of mean, standard deviation and correlation coefficient.

·         "Cost Effective Implementation of Synthetic Tabulation ( a.k.a. Controlled Tabular Adjustments) in Legacy and New Statistical Data Publication Systems" Ramesh A. Dandekar (2003) , UNECE Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality (Luxembourg, 7-9 April, 2003) PRESENTATION SLIDES.

·         "Sensitive Micro Data Protection Using Latin Hypercube Sampling Technique" Ramesh A. Dandekar (2002) Inference Control in Statistical Databases, LNCS 2316, pp. 117-125 2002, Springer-Verlag Berlin PRESENTATION SLIDES.

·         "Multivariate Controlled Tabular Adjustments For SDL of Sensitive Data Using Latin Hypercube Sampling" Ramesh A. Dandekar (2003) JSM2003, Summer Conference, San Francisco, California PRESENTATION SLIDES.

·         "Maximum Utility-Minimum Information Loss Table Server Design for Statistical Disclosure Control of Tabular Data", Ramesh A. Dandekar, June 9-11, 2004, Barcelona, Spain. PRESENTATION SLIDES. Related LOG-LINEAR analysis and 3-D sectional data from Eight Dimensional CPS Counts Data.

·         "Complementary Cell Suppression Software Tools for Statistical Disclosure Control - Reality Check" Ramesh A. Dandekar (2005) , Joint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality (Geneva, Switzerland, 9-11 November, 2005) PRESENTATION SLIDES.

·          Comparative Evaluation of Four Different Sensitive Tabular Data Protection Methods Using a Real Life Table Structure”, Ramesh A. Dandekar (2007). PRESENTATION SLIDES. Prepared Speech      Detailed output from Two 3_D Linked Tables    and    Related 4-D Table Comparison.

·         Abstract(2002) of the forthcoming paper "Stepwise Shrinking Hypercubes to Develop a Complementary Cell Suppression Pattern in Data Bases Containing an Extremely Large Number of Sensitive Cells", Ramesh A. Dandekar

·         Huge Tabular Data Test Cases available from Prof. Jordi Castro  and  Prof. JJ Salazar / CASC websites:     Forty Dimensional Tabular Data        4million plus non-zero cells/10 million plus relations Tabular Data       six million plus non-zero cells/twenty two million plus relations Tabular Data     Tabular Data Specifications File    For Sensitivity Analysis:  6^10 Tabular Structure Populated with   250 Micro Data Records    500 Micro Data Records    1,000 Micro Data Records     5, 000 Micro Data Records  SUMMARY CTA SOLUTIONS using Dandekar2001 plus/minus heuristic.

·         “How to Prevent Perturbation Procedures from Becoming Data Falsification Procedures” , available from PSD2008, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2008, Companion CD Proceedings ISBN: 978-84-691-5385-7. Related 72 Pages of  Test Output  PRESENTATION SLIDES.

·         "Statistical Disclosure Control Of Tabular Format Magnitude Data - Why It Is Not A Good Idea To Use Home Grown Cell Suppression Procedures", Presented At FCSM2009 Conference.

·         "Incorporating Quality Measures in Tabular Data Protected by Perturbation Methods", Presented at FCSM2009 Conference.

·         Output (3128 pages) to evaluate the effectiveness of CTA in protecting 7-D tabular format census counts data in its entirety. The synthetic micro data used for this evaluation is from technical paper wp.31 presented at UNECE2009 conference.

·         "(In)Effectiveness of Independent Rounding of Discrete Tabular Data as Statistical Disclosure Control Strategy", JSM2010 conference presentation slides.

·       Abstract(2011) of the forthcoming paper," Applicability of Basic Separability Principles To Enhance the Operational Efficiency of Synthetic Tabular Data Generation Procedures in Multi Dimensional Table Structures"