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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019

An Empirical Study of Applying Statistical Disclosure Control Methods to Public Health Research.

Amanda M Y Chu, Benson S Y Lam, Agnes Tiwari, Mike K P So

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Amanda M Y ChuDepartment of Social Sciences, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9543-747X
Benson S Y LamDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China.
Agnes TiwariSchool of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China.
Mike K P SoDepartment of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0781-8166

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Abstract

Patient data or information collected from public health and health care surveys are of great research value. Usually, the data contain sensitive personal information. Doctors, nurses, or researchers in the public health and health care sector do not analyze the available datasets or survey data on their own, and may outsource the tasks to third parties. Even though all identifiers such as names and ID card numbers are removed, there may still be some occasions in which an individual can be re-identified via the demographic or particular information provided in the datasets. Such data privacy issues can become an obstacle in health-related research. Statistical disclosure control (SDC) is a useful technique used to resolve this problem by masking and designing released data based on the original data. Whilst ensuring the released data can satisfy the needs of researchers for data analysis, there is high protection of the original data from disclosure. In this research, we discuss the statistical properties of two SDC methods: the General Additive Data Perturbation (GADP) method and the Gaussian Copula General Additive Data Perturbation (CGADP) method. An empirical study is provided to demonstrate how we can apply these two SDC methods in public health research.

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Data Interpretation, StatisticalPublic HealthResearch DesignConfidentialityEmpirical ResearchHumansdata perturbationdata privacydata utilityhealth carerisk

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PMID31731730
PMCPMC6888099

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