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Material for synthpop workshop at the IDPLN conference

6th September 2022

Outline for course

All the slides used for the lectures in the course are in this Powerpoint file

RaabNowok_IPDsynthpopLN_synthpop_workshop_060922

The data sets and instructions for each of the practicals are in the table at the bottom of this page

Session 1

Introduction and overview

Lecture 1 Basic synthpop via full conditional models

  • Basic ideas
  • Parameters you can change – examples

Lecture 2 Utility and tips and tricks for improving it

Practical 1

BREAK refreshments (need to get your own – sorry)

Session 2

Lecture 3  SDC and releasing data

Lecture 4 Other methods

  • Included in synthpop
  • Not included in synthpop
  • Differential privacy

Practical 2  

 

 

Session What
included		 Instructions and codebook Data Sample code
Practical 1

Quality of Life in Poland 2011

 Synthesising with conditional models, comparing utility and finding the influence of changing parameters

 

 SD2011_tasks See help for SD2011 in synthpop library synthesis_SD2011
Practical 2 a)

Sample from the American Community Survey 2018.

 Challenge of customising a large data set to maintain all the relationships with cart models, stratification and using catall at the start for difficult variables. acs2018_tasks.pdf acs2018.rds synthesis_acs2018.R
Practical 2 b)

Internet use in the Scottish Household Survey 2001/2002.

 Utility evaluation, plotting models, defining rules, stratification, catall, structural zeros, differential privacy.

 

 shs_tasks shs.rds synthesis_shs.R
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