Remote access systems for statistical analysis of microdata

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 381-389

  Schouten, Barry ^a   Cigrang, Marc ^b  

^a STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b Luxembourg Income Study   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Microdata; Remote access; Remote execution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346801842     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025675124850     Document Type: Article

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