A measure of disclosure risk for microdata

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 855-867

  Skinner, C J ^a   Elliot, M J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confidentiality protection; Finite population inference; Sample survey data; Statistical disclosure control

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036433649     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00365     Document Type: Article

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