ptable - Generation of Perturbation Tables for the Cell-Key Method

Tabular data from statistical institutes and agencies are mostly confidential and must be protected prior to publications. The cell-key method is a post-tabular Statistical Disclosure Control perturbation technique that adds random noise to tabular data. The statistical properties of the perturbations are defined by some noise probability distributions - also referred to as perturbation tables. This tool can be used to create the perturbation tables based on a maximum entropy approach as described for example in Giessing (2016) <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45381-1_18>. The perturbation tables created can finally be used to apply a cell-key method to frequency count or magnitude tables.