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Incompatibilities Between Current Practices in Statistical Data Analysis and Differential Privacy

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Joshua Snoke, Claire McKay Bowen, Aaron R. Williams, Andrés F. Barrientos

Cryptography and Security · Submitted 16 Aug 2023

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The authors' main claim The authors discuss how overcoming these incompatibilities require compromise and a change in either our approach to statistical data analysis or differential privacy that should be addressed head-on.

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CitationAaron R. Williams, Andr\'es F. Barrientos, Claire McKay Bowen, Joshua Snoke. "Incompatibilities Between Current Practices in Statistical Data Analysis and Differential Privacy." arXiv:2309.16703 (2023). https://pith.science/paper/CETS272Q
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The authors discuss their experience applying differential privacy with a complex data set with the goal of enabling standard approaches to statistical data analysis. They highlight lessons learned and roadblocks encountered, distilling them into incompatibilities between current practices in statistical data analysis and differential privacy that go beyond issues which can be solved with a noisy measurements file. The authors discuss how overcoming these incompatibilities require compromise and a change in either our approach to statistical data analysis or differential privacy that should be addressed head-on.

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s1 They highlight lessons learned and roadblocks encountered, distilling them into incompatibilities between current practices in statistical data analysis and differential privacy that go beyond issues which can be solved with a noisy measurements file. contribution 0.70 0.88 0.51 asserted 1.00
s2 The authors discuss how overcoming these incompatibilities require compromise and a change in either our approach to statistical data analysis or differential privacy that should be addressed head-on. interpretation 0.71 0.55 0.77 asserted 0.94

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The authors discuss their experience applying differential privacy with a complex data set with the goal of enabling standard approaches to statistical data analysis. They highlight lessons learned and roadblocks encountered, distilling them into incompatibilities between current practices in statistical data analysis and differential privacy that go beyond issues which can be solved with a noisy measurements file. The authors discuss how overcoming these incompatibilities require compromise and a change in either our approach to statistical data analysis or differential privacy that should be addressed head-on.

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