Data Smearing: An Approach to Disclosure Limitation for Tabular Data

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 839-857

  Toth, Daniell ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell suppression; Confidentiality; Contingency tables; Multiple imputation; Nearest neighbor; Synthetic data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924761763     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: 20017367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/JOS-2014-0050     Document Type: Article

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