Variations, Information and Privacy

Harvard FAS

This course delves into the intriguing realms of variations, information, and privacy, with a keen focus on both their qualitative conceptualizations, such as contextual integrity, and their quantitative specifications, exemplified by differential privacy. Our primary goal is to examine these concepts through a foundational statistical lens, and study statistics from the dual perspectives of creating and limiting information from data.At the heart of our exploration is the concept of…