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- ↑ A history of the U.S. Census Bureau's Disclosure Review Board, United States Census Bureau, April 2019
- ↑ See author biography for McKenna, Laura (October 2018), Disclosure Avoidance Techniques Used for the 1970 through 2010 Decennial Censuses of Population and Housing (PDF), United States Census Bureau
- ↑ American Statistical Association, Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality: Members, Consultants, and Terms of Office, 1998–1999 , retrieved 2020-12-01
- 1 2 2003 Annual Honor Awards Program Book (PDF), US Department of Commerce
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- ↑ Annual Report of the Statistical Research Division (PDF), United States Census Bureau, 2010, p. 49