Perturbing nonnormal confidential attributes: The copula approach

Management Science

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1613-1627

  Sarathy, Rathindra ^a   Muralidhar, Krishnamurty ^b   Parsa, Rahul ^c  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulas; Data perturbation; Data security; Database management; Privacy and confidentiality

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA PRIVACY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SECURITY OF DATA;

COPULA-BASED PERTURBATION METHOD; DATA-GATHERING;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036971583     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.48.12.1613.439     Document Type: Article

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