Duncan Smith
Doctoral Student

Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 4722
Email: duncan.g.smith@manchester.ac.uk

CCSR
School of Social Sciences
Kantorovich Building
Humanities Bridgeford Street
University of Manchester
MANCHESTER
M13 9PL

PhD Project:

Aspects of Statistical Disclosure Control

 

Biographical Information:

Educated at the University of Central Lancashire, Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Manchester.  Construction manager for large UK building contractor, followed by research work at several universities.

Research interests:

• Highly Structured Stochastic Systems
• Bayesian methods
• Inference algorithms and model determination for Bayesian Belief Networks 
• Statistical disclosure control

Current research:

• Measurement of disclosure risk for single and linked tables of census data
• Table suppression methods and information loss
• Statistical analysis of perturbed data
• Software development for statistical disclosure control

 

Recent Publications:

Dobash, R, P; Dobash, R, E; Medina-Ariza, J; Cavanagh, K; Smith, D. (Accepted) Onset of Offending and Life-course among Men convicted of Murder The British Journal of Criminology.
Elliot, M.; Purdam, K; Smith, D. (2006) Patient Record Data: Disclosure Control for Grid Based Data Access Proceedings of National centre for e-social Science Conference Manchester.
Elliot, M.; Purdam, K; Pickles, S; Smith, D. (2005) Disclosure risk and grid computing UK e-Science All Hands Meeting Nottingham.
Elliot, M.; Purdam, K; Smith, D. (2005) Confidentiality Data Access via the Grid: an outline of the First International Conference on e-Social Science Manchester.
Elliot, M.; Purdam, K; Smith, D. (2005) Data Monitoring, grid computing and Confidentiality International Symposium on Confidentiality and Privacy Manchester.
Purdam, K; Elliot, M.; Smith, D. (2005) Social survey data, disclosure control and the development of the grid computing New Review of Information Networking 10:2. 161-176
Smith, D.; Elliot, M. (2005) An Experiment in Naive Bayesian Record Linkage 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute Sydney, Australia.
Smith, D.; Elliot, M. (2005) Aspects of naive Bayesian Record Linkage CCSR Occasional Paper :25.
Elliot, M.; Manning, A; Purdam, K; Smith, D. (2004) Confidentiality and the Grid 1st National E-Social Science Centre Manchester.
Elliot, M.; Pickles, A.; Purdam, K; Smith, D. (2004) The Disclosure Risk Issues posed by the 1st National e-Social Science Centre all hands meeting Manchester.
Smith, D.; Elliot, M. (2004) Assessing Attribution Risk in Population Data International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society Manchester, England.
Elliot, M.; Smith, D. (2003) The IDRAPN project, Specification of Software.
Elliot, M.; Smith, D. (2003) The IDRAPN project, Empirical Work.
Elliot, M.; Smith, D. (2003) A measure of risk for Aggregate Data.
Elliot, M.; Smith, D.; Mackey, E (2003) Disclosure Control for Neighbourhood Statistics Workshop on threats and opportunities for Labour Market Statistics Manchester.
Smith, D. (2003) Aspects of Bayesian Inference and Statistical Disclosure Control in Python European Python and Zope Conference Charleroi, Belgium.
Smith, D. (2001) The Efficient Propagation of Arbitrary Subsets of Beliefs in Discrete-Valued Bayesian Belief Networks Eighth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics Key West.

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