TY - JOUR AU - Wasserman, Larry PY - 2012/07/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Minimaxity, Statistical Thinking and Differential Privacy JF - Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality JA - JPC VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.29012/jpc.v4i1.611 UR - https://journalprivacyconfidentiality.org/index.php/jpc/article/view/611 SP - AB - <p>We discuss the role of minimax statistical theory for privacy theory. Minimax theory gives a way to measure information loss for sanitized databases. We also discuss some differences between privacy theory from the statistical perspective versus the computer science perspective.</p> ER -