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Welcome to the course “Ensuring Statistical Reliability & Privacy Compliance in Public Health Reporting.”
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This training is the implementation arm of the Rhode Island Department of Health’s
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Small Numbers guideline since it became its official reporting policy in 2016.
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The initial course emphasis on the development and testing of the policy’s statistical model gave way
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in subsequent versions to a more applied approach with hands-on illustrations of its main principles.
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The course was initially intended for the Department of Health’s surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation
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Staff.
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Students and staff from Rhode Island universities and organizations have been participating since the
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second training as part of ongoing data cooperation agreements with these organizations.
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This course holds no claim on the transferability of any of its guidelines or strategies to the reporting
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policies of these organizations.
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The course is organized in eleven sections that cover the most important aspects of the policy
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starting with a brief description of its development and main objectives.
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The sections on confidentiality protection and statistical reliability use case studies
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from a wide range of reporting scenarios.
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These step-by-step demonstrations identify and remove privacy threats
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to ensure the credibility of estimates in public health reports.
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The course pre-requisites include completion of a college-level measurement class in statistics,
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epidemiology, or equivalent, or prior experience analyzing and reporting public data.
