Differentially Private Verification of Survey-Weighted Estimates

arXiv:2404.02519v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Several official statistics agencies release synthetic data as public use microdata files. In practice, synthetic data do not admit accurate results for every analysis. Thus, it is beneficial for agencies to provide users with feedback on the quality of their analyses of the synthetic data. One approach is to couple synthetic data with a verification server that provides users with measures of the similarity of estimates computed with the synthetic and underlying confidential data. However, …

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