The Bristol Observatory

              Incorporated in 1997 by John A. Pandiani, Ph.D., Sociologist 

                                             and Steven M. Banks, Ph.D., Mathematician

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)