SynthPop: A New Framework for Synthetic Milky Way Population Generation by Jonas Klüter, Macy J. Huston, Abigail Aronica, Samson A. Johnson, Matthew T. Penny, Marz Newman, Farzaneh Zohrabi, Alison L. Crisp, Allison Chevis

“…We present SynthPop , a new open source, modular population synthesis Galactic modeling software to simulate catalogs of Milky Way stars along any sightline outward from the Sun. …”
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Can Synthetic Data Protect Privacy? by Gidan Min, Junhyoung Oh

“…To systematically evaluate the privacy protection performance of synthetic data generation algorithms (Synthpop, CTGAN, RTVAE, TVAE, DataSynthesizer), this study applied various safety metrics. …”
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Releasing synthetic data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC): Guidelines and applied examples [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with res... by Nicholas J. Timpson, Kate Northstone, Jon Heron, Daniel Major-Smith, Alex S. F. Kwong

“…We discuss how ALSPAC data can be synthesised using the ‘synthpop’ package in the R statistical programming language (including an applied example), present a list of guidelines for researchers wishing to release such synthesised ALSPAC data to follow, and demonstrate how this approach can be used as an educational tool to illustrate longitudinal modelling methods.…”
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