I checked 7 public opinion journals on Thursday, October 08, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period October 01 to October 07, I found 2 new paper(s) in 1 journal(s).

Journal of Official Statistics

Beyond the Trade-Off Curve: Multivariate and Advanced Risk-Utility Maps for Evaluating Anonymized Data
Oscar Thees, Roman Müller, Matthias Templ
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Anonymizing microdata requires balancing disclosure risk reduction with the preservation of data utility. Traditional evaluations often rely on single measures or two-dimensional risk-utility (R-U) maps, but real-world assessments involve multiple, often correlated, indicators of both risk and utility—a fundamentally multivariate problem that pairwise comparisons fail to capture both efficiently and completely. We compare six visualization approaches for the simultaneous evaluation of multiple risk and utility measures: heatmaps, dot plots, composite scatterplots, parallel coordinate plots, radial profile charts, and principal component analysis (PCA)-based biplots. We introduce blockwise PCA for composite scatterplots and joint PCA for biplots that simultaneously reveal method performance and measure interrelationships, and apply systematic Pareto-optimal method identification across all approaches where applicable, with dominance assessed in the original composite score space. Our comparison shows that no single approach dominates across all criteria: PCA biplots perform well on the analytical criteria, in particular for revealing how the risk and utility measures relate to one another, while composite scatterplots do so on scalability and applicability and are the only approach that can display the Pareto front. Combining complementary visualizations provides the most complete basis for evaluating the risk-utility trade-off.
Applying Machine Learning to Longitudinal Administrative Data: A Case Study in Education
Fabrizio De Fausti, Marco Di Zio, Romina Filippini, Simona Toti
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This paper presents the results of an extensive empirical evaluation study of several machine learning methods used to predict the attained level of education (ALE) in Italy based exclusively on longitudinal administrative data. The assessment compares model predictions with observed ALE values available in administrative sources, evaluating both distributional preservation and unit-level prediction accuracy. Our findings show that machine learning techniques can effectively exploit longitudinal administrative information to generate accurate and coherent ALE estimates, providing valuable support for the production of register-based statistics.