Statistical Model of the 2001 Czech Census for Interactive Presentation

0350513 - ÚTIA 2011 RIV SE eng J - Journal Article
Grim, Jiří - Hora, Jan - Boček, Pavel - Somol, Petr - Pudil, Pavel
Statistical Model of the 2001 Czech Census for Interactive Presentation.
Journal of Official Statistics. Vol. 26, č. 4 (2010), s. 1-23. ISSN 0282-423X. E-ISSN 0282-423X
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA102/07/1594; GA MŠMT 1M0572
Grant - others:GA MŠk(CZ) 2C06019
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10750506
Keywords : Interactive statistical model * census data presentation * distribution mixtures * data modeling * EM algorithm * incomplete data * data reproduction accuracy * data mining
Subject RIV: BB - Applied Statistics, Operational Research
Impact factor: 0.492, year: 2010
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The paper describes the application of a recently developed method of interactive statistical database presentation to the 2001 Czech Census. The method is based on estimating the multivariate probability distribution of the original microdata. The estimated statistical model in the form of a distribution mixture of product components can be used as a knowledge base of a probabilistic expert system. By means of the probabilistic inference mechanism we can derive conditional distributions of variables for each subpopulation interactively without any further access to the source database. The statistical model does not contain the original data and therefore can be distributed without any confidentiality concerns. The accuracy achievable by the statistical model is comparable with that of the anonymized subsets of microdata.
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