A data disclosure policy for count data based on the COM-poisson distribution

Management Science

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1610-1617

  Kadane, Joseph B ^a   Krishnan, Ramayya ^a   Shmueli, Galit ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Conway Maxwell Poisson; Data snooper; Disclosure risk; Sufficient statistics

Indexed keywords

CONWAY-MAXWELL-POISSON; DATA SNOOPER; DISCLOSURE RISK; SUFFICIENT STATISTICS;

DATA STRUCTURES; LINEAR EQUATIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC POLICY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 33749672242     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1060.0562     Document Type: Article

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