A LATENT CLASS MODELING APPROACH FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC DATA AND MAKING POSTERIOR INFERENCES FROM DIFFERENTIALLY PRIVATE COUNTS

Michelle Pistner Nixon, Andrés F. Barrientos, Jerome P. Reiter, Aleksandra Slavkovic

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Abstract

Several algorithms exist for creating differentially private counts from contingency tables, such as two-way or three-way marginal counts. The resulting noisy counts generally do not correspond to a coherent contingency table, so that some post-processing step is needed if one wants the released counts to correspond to a coherent contingency table. We present a latent class modeling approach for post-processing differentially private marginal counts that can be used (i) to create differentially private synthetic data from the set of marginal counts, and (ii) to enable posterior inferences about the confidential counts. We illustrate the approach using a subset of the 2016 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sets and the 2004 National Long Term Care Survey.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalJournal of Privacy and Confidentiality
Volume12
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 29 2022

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Computer Science Applications

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