Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
9-2006
Abstract
Disclosure analysis in two-way contingency tables is important in categorical data analysis. The disclosure analysis concerns whether a data snooper can infer any protected cell values, which contain privacy sensitive information, from available marginal totals (i.e., row sums and column sums) in a two-way contingency table. Previous research has been targeted on this problem from various perspectives. However, there is a lack of systematic definitions on the disclosure of cell values. Also, no previous study has been focused on the distribution of the cells that are subject to various types of disclosure. In this paper, we define four types of possible disclosure based on the exact upper bound and/or the lower bound of each cell that can be computed from the marginal totals. For each type of disclosure, we discover the distribution pattern of the cells subject to disclosure. Based on the distribution patterns discovered, we can speed up the search for all cells subject to disclosure.
Discipline
Information Security
Research Areas
Information Security and Trust
Publication
Privacy in Statistical Databases: CENEX-SDC Project International Conference, PSD 2006, Rome, Italy, December 13-15: Proceedings
Volume
4302
First Page
57
Last Page
67
ISBN
9783540493303
Identifier
10.1007/11930242_6
Publisher
Springer
City or Country
Berlin
Citation
LU, Haibing; LI, Yingjiu; and WU, Xintao.
Disclosure Analysis for Two-Way Contingency Tables. (2006). Privacy in Statistical Databases: CENEX-SDC Project International Conference, PSD 2006, Rome, Italy, December 13-15: Proceedings. 4302, 57-67.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/569
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/11930242_6