Minimaxity, Statistical Thinking and Differential Privacy

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Larry Wasserman
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5461-8760

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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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Wasserman, Larry. 2012. “Minimaxity, Statistical Thinking and Differential Privacy”. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality 4 (1). https://doi.org/10.29012/jpc.v4i1.611.
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