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Privacy Preserving Categorical Data Analysis with Unknown Distortion Parameters
Ling Guo(a), Xintao Wu(a),(*)
Transactions on Data Privacy 2:3 (2009) 185 - 205
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(a) Software and Information Systems Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.
e-mail:lguo2 @uncc.edu ; xwu @uncc.edu
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Abstract
Randomized Response techniques have been investigated in privacy preserving categorical data
analysis. However, the released distortion parameters can be exploited by attackers to breach privacy. In this
paper, we investigate whether data mining or statistical analysis tasks can still be conducted on randomized data
when distortion parameters are not disclosed to data miners. We first examine how various objective association
measures between two variables may be affected by randomization. We then extend to multiple variables by
examining the feasibility of hierarchical loglinear modeling. Finally we show some classic data mining tasks
that cannot be applied on the randomized data directly.
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* Corresponding author.
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