Trade-Off between Disclosure Risk and Information Loss Using Multivariate Microaggregation: A Case Study on Business Data

摘要

This paper presents the results of an empirical test on numerical microaggregation using μ-Argus 3.2. Several scenarios are denned as combination of different parameters: sample size, number of variables used in the microaggregation and number of records per group. The main aim of this work is finding a trade-off between disclosure risk and information loss.