A system and method for dynamically determining the demographic identity
of an individual operating a set-top box, is disclosed which may include
monitoring set top-box events for a plurality of set-top boxes,
correlating set-top box events with demographic characteristics, applying
with a computer inverse demographic matrix calculation techniques to
determine probabilities for demographic characteristic and set-top box
event dataset correlations without knowing individual-specific
demographic information pertaining to the set-top box event dataset,
ascribing demographic characteristic probabilities to each set-top box
over time based on observed set-top box events and their relationship to
such inverse demographic matrix probabilities, evaluating such ascribed
demographic characteristic probabilities over time through statistical
analysis, fining probabilities ascribed to demographic characteristics to
statistically determine the most likely set of constant dataset
possibilities for each set-top box, and fitting set-top box possibility
sets to inverse demographic matrix probability sets for a set-top box
event.