Model Selection when multiple imputation is used to protect confidentiality in public use data
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Several statistical agencies use, or are considering the use of, multiple imputation to limit the risk of disclosing respondents' identities or sensitive attributes in public use files. For example, agencies can release partially synthetic datasets, comprising the units originally surveyed with some values, such as sensitive values at high risk of disclosure, or values of key identifiers, replaced with multiple imputations. We describe how secondary analysts of such multiply-imputed datasets can implement Bayesian model selection procedures that appropriately condition on the multiple datasets and the information released by the agency about the imputation models. We illustrate by deriving Bayes factor approximations and a data augmentation step for stochastic search variable selection algorithms.
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Kinney, Satkartar K., Jerome P. Reiter, and James O. Berger. 2011. “Model Selection When Multiple Imputation Is Used to Protect Confidentiality in Public Use Data”. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality 2 (2). https://doi.org/10.29012/jpc.v2i2.588.
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