Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods

The Korean Statistical Society (한국통계학회)
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Upper Bounds for the Infection Rate in Group Testing

  • Published : 1997.04.01
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Abstract

Group testing is an efficient method to classify units from a population as infected or non-infected and useful in estimating the infection rate when the population infection rate is small. Upper bounds are the focus of interest in group testing, but has not been studied extensively. In this paper, the upper bound derived from the uniformly most powerful test is proposed and compared with the classical approachers, Thompson's and Bhattacharyya et al.'s methods.

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