R: Individual Risk computation

indivRisk {sdcMicro} | R Documentation

## Individual Risk computation

### Description

Estimation of the risk for each observation. After the risk is computed one can use e.g. the function localSuppr() for the protection of values of high risk. Further details can be found at the link given below.

### Usage

    indivRisk(x, method = "approx", qual = 1, survey = TRUE)

### Arguments

`x` | object from class freqCalc
`method` | approx (default) or exact
`qual` | final correction factor
`survey` | TRUE, if we have survey data and FALSE if we deal with a population.

### Details

S4 class sdcMicro objects are only supported by function measure_risk that also estimates the individual risk with the same method.

### Value

- rk: base individual risk

- method: method

- qual: final correction factor

- fk: frequency count

- knames: colnames of the key variables

### Note

The base individual risk method was developed by Benedetti, Capobianchi and Franconi

### Author(s)

Matthias Templ. Bug in method “exact” fixed since version 2.6.5. by Youri Baeyens.

### References

Templ, M. and Kowarik, A. and Meindl, B. Statistical Disclosure Control for Micro-Data Using the R Package sdcMicro. Journal of Statistical Software, 67 (4), 1–36, 2015. doi: 10.18637/jss.v067.i04

Franconi, L. and Polettini, S. (2004) Individual risk estimation in mu-Argus: a review. Privacy in Statistical Databases, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 262–272. Springer

Machanavajjhala, A. and Kifer, D. and Gehrke, J. and Venkitasubramaniam, M. (2007) l-Diversity: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity. ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data, 1(1)

additionally, have a look at the vignettes of sdcMicro for further reading.

### See Also

`measure_risk`, `freqCalc`

### Examples

    ## example from Capobianchi, Polettini and Lucarelli:
    data(francdat)
    f <- freqCalc(francdat, keyVars=c(2,4,5,6),w=8)
    f
    f$fk
    f$Fk
    ## individual risk calculation:
    indivf <- indivRisk(f)
    indivf$rk

[Package sdcMicro version 5.6.1 Index]