3 papers
stat.ME2024
The appeal of the gamma family distribution to protect the confidentiality of contingency tables
James Jackson, Robin Mitra, Brian Francis +1
Administrative databases, such as the English School Census (ESC), are rich sources of information that are potentially useful for researchers. For such data sources to be made ava…
cs.CR2024
Obtaining -differential privacy guarantees when using a Poisson mechanism to synthesize contingency tables
James Jackson, Robin Mitra, Brian Francis +1
We show that differential privacy type guarantees can be obtained when using a Poisson synthesis mechanism to protect counts in contingency tables. Specifically, we show how to obt…
stat.ME2022
On integrating the number of synthetic data sets into the 'a priori' synthesis approach
James Edward Jackson, Robin Mitra, Brian Joseph Francis +1
Until recently, multiple synthetic data sets were always released to analysts, to allow valid inferences to be obtained. However, under certain conditions - including when saturate…