synthpop with disclosure functions

for more information about synthpop you can visit www.synthpop.org. Look under resources for materials from our courses on how to use the package.

This is a new version (v1.8-1) of the synthpop package.

The version on CRAN is 1.8-0 as of 6/2/2024.

You can find it here.synthpop on CRAN

The biggest change in the new version is the inclusion of two new functions to assess the disclosure risk of synthetic data, disclosure() and disclosure.summary(). Each of them can take as input either an oject of class synds that includes synthetic data set(s) created by synthpop or a synthetic data set or a list of synthetic data sets created by any method from the same original data

These are described in the vignette disclosure.pdf. (add link??)

To install the package from this repo in Rstudio use the command

devtools::install_github("Gillian.Raab/synthpop",build_vignettes = TRUE)

Other changes include: Adding Gaussian DP noise in the DP versions of syn.catall and syn.ipf Extending syn.ipf to allow all 3-way or 4-way interactions as a group option

Acknowledgements

Help from MA