Open AccessMinimaxity, Statistical Thinking and Differential Privacy
Author(s) -
Larry Wasserman
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of privacy and confidentiality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2575-8527
DOI - 10.29012/jpc.v4i1.611
Subject(s) - minimax , differential privacy , perspective (graphical) , measure (data warehouse) , computer science , information theory , statistical theory , statistical analysis , information privacy , mathematical economics , mathematics , computer security , artificial intelligence , data mining , statistics
We discuss the role of minimax statistical theory for privacy theory. Minimax theory gives a way to measure information loss for sanitized databases. We also discuss some differences between privacy theory from the statistical perspective versus the computer science perspective.
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