Estimating risks of identification disclosure in microdata

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 100, Issue 472, 2005, Pages 1103-1112

  Reiter, Jerome P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Public use data; Record linkage; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144432870     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214505000000619     Document Type: Review

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