2 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…