Synthetic two-way contingency tables that preserve conditional frequencies

Statistical Methodology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 225-239

  Slavković, Aleksandra B ^a   Lee, Juyoun ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency table; Logistic models; Mantel Haenszel test; Statistical disclosure control; Swapped table; Synthetic tabular data

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950918549     PISSN: 15723127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stamet.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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