A unified mathematical programming framework for different statistical disclosure limitation methods

Operations Research

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 819-829

  Salazar González, Juan José ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell suppression; Integer programming; Rounding; Statistical disclosure control

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CELL SUPPRESSION; CUTTING-PLANE APPROACH; ROUNDING; STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE CONTROL;

LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

EID: 27344440542     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1040.0202     Document Type: Article

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