Abstract
We deal with the issue of risk estimation in a sample frequency table to be released by an agency. Risk arises from non-empty sample cells which represent small population cells and from population uniques in particular. Therefore risk estimation requires assessing which of the relevant population cells are indeed small. Various methods have been proposed for this task, and we present a new method in which estimation of a population cell frequency is based on smoothing using a local neighborhood of this cell, that is, cells having similar or close values in all attributes.
The statistical model we use is a generalized Negative Binomial model which subsumes the Poisson and Negative Binomial models. We provide some preliminary results and experiments with this method.
Comparisons of the new approach are made to a method based on Poisson regressionlog-linear hierarchical model, in which inference on a given cell is based on classical models of contingency tables. Such models connect each cell to a ‘neighborhood’ of cells with one or several common attributes, but some other attributes may differ significantly. We also compare to the Argus Negative Binomial method in which inference on a given cell is based only on sampling weights, without learning from any type of ‘neighborhood’ of the given cell and without making use of the structure of the table.
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Rinott, Y., Shlomo, N. (2006). A Generalized Negative Binomial Smoothing Model for Sample Disclosure Risk Estimation. In: Domingo-Ferrer, J., Franconi, L. (eds) Privacy in Statistical Databases. PSD 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4302. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11930242_8
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