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. 2015 Apr 23;22(5):1029–1041. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocv004

Table 4:

Frontier R-U tradeoff improvement rate of the SHS over k-anonymization (IR) for the Adult dataset with ZIP codes simulated based on U.S. census data

State IR
k = 5 k = 10
HI 0.054 0.050
IL 0.035 0.018
MA 0.058 0.062
MN 0.020 0.049
NY 0.034 0.034
OH −0.003 0.005
PA 0.018 0.019
TN 0.018 0.050
WA 0.040 0.060
WI 0.026 0.050
Average 0.030 0.040
St. Dev. 0.017 0.019