A smoothing approach for masking spatial data

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1451-1475

  Zhou, Yijie ^a   Dominici, Francesca ^b   Louis, Thomas A ^c  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data masking; Data utility; Disclosure risk; Spatial smoothing; Statistical disclosure limitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870265884     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOAS325     Document Type: Article

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