Abstract:Abstract. In many real-life situations, e.g., in medicine, it is necessary to process data while preserving the patients' confidentiality. One of the most efficient methods of preserving privacy is to replace the exact values with intervals that contain these values. For example, instead of an exact age, a privacy-protected database only contains the information that the age is, e.g., between 10 and 20, or between 20 and 30, etc. Based on this data, it is important to compute correlation and covariance between… Show more
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