Estimating identification disclosure risk using mixed membership models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 107, Issue 500, 2012, Pages 1385-1394

  Manrique Vallier, Daniel ^a   Reiter, Jerome P ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Contingency table; Grade of membership; Latent class

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871977424     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2012.710508     Document Type: Article

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