The Bristol Observatory

                    We measure treatment outcomes

                                    Using existing administrative data

                                              While protecting personal privacy

Probabilistic Population Estimation and Personal Privacy

Toward an Operational Definition of Personally Identifying Information

Paper presented at the 8th Biennial Symposium on Statistical Methods, Atlanta Georgia, January 2001.  “Personally Identifiable Information”  Abstract  

United States General Accounting Office (2001) Record Linkage and Privacy: Issues in Creating New Federal Research and Statistical information. GAO-01-126SP(includes reference to Probabilistic Population Estimation on pages 106 of 172 under Methodological Expertise)

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