Verification servers: Enabling analysts to assess the quality of inferences from public use data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1475-1482

  Reiter, Jerome P ^a   Oganian, Anna ^b   Karr, Alan F ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCLOSURE LIMITATIONS; QUALITY MEASURES;

EID: 58549115039     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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