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Journal of Environmental and Public Health
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 421989, 9 pages
Protecting Privacy of Shared Epidemiologic Data without Compromising Analysis Potential
1Department of Statistics, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, 5-2 Hijiyama Park, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 732-0815, Japan
2Department of Epidemiology, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima 732-0815, Japan
3Department of Medical Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
4Department of Information Technology, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima 732-0815, Japan
Received 17 May 2011; Accepted 2 November 2011
Academic Editor: Benny Zee
Copyright © 2012 John Cologne et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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