Does Differentially Private Synthetic Data Lead to Synthetic Discoveries?

no code implementations • 20 Mar 2024 • Ileana Montoya Perez, Parisa Movahedi, Valtteri Nieminen, Antti Airola, Tapio Pahikkala

Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the Mann-Whitney U test on DP-synthetic biomedical data in terms of Type I and Type II errors, in order to establish whether statistical hypothesis testing performed on privacy preserving synthetic data is likely to lead to loss of test's validity or decreased power.

Privacy Preserving Synthetic Data Generation