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Identification Risk Evaluation of Continuous Synthesized Variables

@article{Hornby2020IdentificationRE,
  title={Identification Risk Evaluation of Continuous Synthesized Variables},
  author={Ryan Hornby and Jingchen Hu},
  journal={arXiv: Methodology},
  year={2020}
}
We propose a general approach to evaluating identification risk of continuous synthesized variables in partially synthetic data. We introduce the use of a radius $r$ in the construction of identification risk probability of each target record, and illustrate with working examples for one or more continuous synthesized variables. We demonstrate our methods with applications to a data sample from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE), and discuss the impacts on risk and data utility of 1) the… 
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