To protect confidentiality, statistical agencies typically alter data before releasing them to the public. Ideally, although generally not done, the agency also provides a way for secondary data analysts to assess the quality of inferences obtained with the released data. Quality measures can...

Given a Markov process with state space {0, 1} we treat parameter estimation of the transition intensities and state estimation of unobserved portions of the sample path, based on various partial observations of the process. Parameter estimators are devised and shown to be consistent and...