Disclosure Risk vs. Data Utility: The R-U Confidentiality Map as Applied to Topcoding
CHANCEPublished 1 June 2004
George T. Duncan, S. Lynne Stokes
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Maintaining a long tradition, government statistical agencies, such as the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for Education Statistics, have established policies to protect the privacy of respondents and maintain the confidentiality of the data they collect.
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(2004). Disclosure Risk vs. Data Utility: The R-U Confidentiality Map as Applied to Topcoding. CHANCE: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 16-20.
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