On the connections between statistical disclosure control for microdata and some artificial intelligence tools

Information Sciences

Volumn 151, Issue SUPPL, 2003, Pages 153-170

  Domingo Ferrer, Josep ^a   Torra, Vicenç ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Data cleaning; Data mining; Official statistics; Re identification procedures; Statistical disclosure control; Synthesis of information

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA CLEANING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0037402612     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(03)00064-1     Document Type: Article

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