IN STATISTICAL, DATA ASES: A MATTER OF PRIVACY Carl Stephen Guynes College of Business Administration University of North Texas Denton, Texas 76201 protection of the database, and the richness or value of the information revealed to users [2] . The purpose of a statistical database is to provide To be effective the statistical database should be statistical summaries of information stored in the equipped with a good conceptual model and database in response to user queries. This article must contain well-defined statistical information. addresses the problem of trying to ensure the Any changes made to the database should be done in a controlled manner and recorded for confidentiality of information about individuals, while still providing useful statistical summaries auditing . The efficiency of the statistical database design can be achieved in one of the followof the data to researchers. Compromise of a statistical database is defined as the extraction of ing ways . First, different levels of statistical information should be revealed to different users. individually identifiable information from the Next, different security constructs and mechadatabase. Compromise occurs when a database nisms should be defined for different types of user is able to deduce, from the responses of
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