Dual group screening

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 449-473

  Johnson, Wesley O ^a   Gastwirth, Joseph L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Drug screening; Group testing; HIV screening; Predictive value negative; Prevalence; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343568445     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(99)00100-7     Document Type: Article

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