Modern society generates an incredible amount of data about individuals, and releasing summary statistics about this data in a manner that provably protects individual privacy would offer a valuable resource for researchers in many fields. We present the first algorithm for analysis of variance (ANOVA) that preserves differential privacy, allowing this important statistical test to be conducted...

The present report was commissioned by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) during the period March-April 2005. The aim of the study is to contribute to the pool of knowledge on foresight in Europe (FISTERA project) with updated information on the latest developments related to the Foresight programmes or initiatives on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in ...

in some quality control applications, the quality of a process or a product is described by the relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables, called a profile. moreover, in most practical applications, the qualitative characteristic of a product/service is vague, uncertain and linguistic and cannot be precisely stated. the purpose of this paper is to propose a ...