Protecting confidentiality in small population health and environmental statistics

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 17-18, 1996, Pages 1895-1905

  Cox, Lawrence H ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; RECORDS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029792710     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19960915)15:17<1895::AID-SIM401>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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