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Both the (n,k)-dominance rule as well as the p%-rule are well known and often used sensitivity measures in determining which cells are unsafe to publish in tabular output. The p%-rule has some theoretical advantages over the dominance rule, hence it is generally advised to use that rule instead of the latter one.
In this paper we investigate the relation between the (n,k)-dominance rule and the p%-rule. We propose a dynamic rule to determine a value p *(k) that yields, approximately, the same number of unsafe cells as a corresponding (n,k)-dominance rule.
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de Wolf, PP., Hundepool, A. (2012). p% Should Dominate. In: Domingo-Ferrer, J., Tinnirello, I. (eds) Privacy in Statistical Databases. PSD 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7556. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33627-0_1
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