CDC Establishes Private Foundation to Supplement Budget

CDC foundation supports emerging infectious disease projects.

The recent report of a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (V-CJD) in Great Britain and the possible link between the disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has raised a number of health and safety concerns (1,2). On April 8, 1996, CDC organized a meeting of U.S. agency representatives to review information about the report of U.K. cases and about efforts to identify the existe...

Supplement to Toward a Strategic Foundation for Rational Expectations Equilibrium

The proof of the main result in Reny and Perry (2006) is provided here. We also provide an example in which the best reply to nondecreasing bidding functions fails to be nondecreasing, and we show how to approximate a degenerate density by one that satis…es the assumptions in Reny and Perry (2006). Finally, we establish that Reny and Perry’s (2006) main result continues to hold when the notion ...

Theoretical Foundation for a Learning Rate Budget

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Private Data Aggregation on a Budget

We provide a practical solution to performing cross-user machine learning through aggregation on a sensitive dataset distributed among privacy-concerned users. We focus on a scenario in which a single company wishes to obtain the distribution of aggregate features, while ensuring a high level of privacy for the users. We are interested in the case where users own devices that are not necessaril...

Promoting Positive Community Norms: A Supplement to CDC Essentials for Childhood