"Minus-One" Data Prediction Generates Synthetic Census Data with Good Crosstabulation Fidelity
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| author | Press, William H. |
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| contents | We propose to capture relevant statistical associations in a dataset of categorical survey responses by a method, here termed MODP, that "learns" a probabilistic prediction function L. Specifically, L predicts each question's response based on the same respondent's answers to all the other questions. Draws from the resulting probability distribution become synthetic responses. Applying this methodology to the PUMS subset of Census ACS data, and with a learned L akin to multiple parallel logistic regression, we generate synthetic responses whose crosstabulations (two-point conditionals) are found to have a median accuracy of ~5% across all crosstabulation cells, with cell counts ranging over four orders of magnitude. We investigate and attempt to quantify the degree to which the privacy of the original data is protected. |
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| spellingShingle | "Minus-One" Data Prediction Generates Synthetic Census Data with Good Crosstabulation Fidelity Press, William H. Applications Cryptography and Security Computers and Society Methodology 62P25 J.4 We propose to capture relevant statistical associations in a dataset of categorical survey responses by a method, here termed MODP, that "learns" a probabilistic prediction function L. Specifically, L predicts each question's response based on the same respondent's answers to all the other questions. Draws from the resulting probability distribution become synthetic responses. Applying this methodology to the PUMS subset of Census ACS data, and with a learned L akin to multiple parallel logistic regression, we generate synthetic responses whose crosstabulations (two-point conditionals) are found to have a median accuracy of ~5% across all crosstabulation cells, with cell counts ranging over four orders of magnitude. We investigate and attempt to quantify the degree to which the privacy of the original data is protected. |
| title | "Minus-One" Data Prediction Generates Synthetic Census Data with Good Crosstabulation Fidelity |
| topic | Applications Cryptography and Security Computers and Society Methodology 62P25 J.4 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05264 |