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. 2021 Jan 15;28(4):744–752. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa327

Table 4.

Robustness of the reduction in re-identification risk Riskoverall when shifting from the worst case to the Twitter and the voter registration scenarios.

BN Parameter
Twitter
Voter
pm pc pfm pcu Q1 Median Q3 Q1 Median Q3
0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 96.85 (0.17) 100.0 (0.0) 100.0 (0.0) 42.42 (2.03) 91.18 (0.61) 96.84 (0.16)
0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 97.49 (0.37) 100.0 (0.0) 100.0 (0.0) 37.85 (1.54) 90.38 (0.71) 95.69 (0.35)
0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 97.51 (0.31) 100.0 (0.0) 100.0 (0.0) 30.2 (0.72) 88.36 (0.92) 94.59 (0.37)
0.5 0.2 0.8 0.5 98.47 (0.03) 100.0 (0.0) 100.0 (0.0) 41.2 (1.81) 95.56 (0.23) 98.51 (0.03)
0.2 0.2 0.5 0.8 98.46 (0.08) 100.0 (0.0) 100.0 (0.0) 65.21 (1.48) 95.47 (0.45) 98.46 (0.08)
Average 97.73 (0.22) 100 (0) 100 (0) 38.69 (1.33) 90.89 (0.65) 95.98 (0.26)
SD 0.44 (0.15) 0 (0) 0 (0) 10.22 (0.48) 3.09 (0.25) 1.75 (0.15)

The first several rows report the average (and SD) of the Q1, median, and Q3 across 10 runs of 1000 subjects each for several representative BN parameterizations. The final 2 rows report the average and standard deviation across all BN parameterizations.

BN: Bayesian network; Q: quartile.