Statistical Synthetic Data Generation for Census Applications

• Activity Number: 255
• Type: Topic Contributed
• Date/Time: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
• Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
• Author(s): John W. Dawson*+
• Companies: ExactData, LLC
• Keywords: Synthetic Test Data ; Synthetic Test Images ; Automated Data Generation ; System Testing ; Complex Data Sets ; Image Representation of Data

Abstract

Statistical Synthetic Data Generation for Census Applications will be a discussion on the statistics and other factors used to create the base data sets that result in representative system testing synthetic image, paper or data files. We will describe how to create statistical, multi-layered dependent rules driven, complex, contextually valid, large-scale data sets enabled through simple GUI that can handle very complex data requirements of any form/field with any logic, at any complexity level. Highlighted will be a description of: How to support a level of dependent calculations How to use feedback from output to control operations within the same data set. How to control dependent and conditional operations including how to define data set templates that can dynamically produce dramatically different correct results according to rules that key off the created data.