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What is statistical difference?
In the paper "Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis" by Dwork et al., the term "statistical difference" is used as following (in page 280):
Finally, if a $1 − \...
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differentially private release of histograms (non-negative valued queries)
Two practical questions arise when releasing differentially private histograms/counts via addition of Laplace/Gaussian noise:
1) Is the result of noise addition truncated/rounded (since we know that ...
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Why does "sticky noise" defy averaging attack?
I have read an interesting paper (pdf) describing how a privacy preserving technique might be breached, but I am having trouble understanding the following paragraph describing one of several layers ...
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How to test for differential privacy on multiple choice data?
I apologize I am new to statistics so I do not know all terms and concepts.
My current algorithm for adding noise to multiple-choice favorite color data is this:
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