Optimal configuration of a square array group testing algorithm

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 436-448

  Hudgens, Michael G ^a   Kim, Hae Young ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood testing; Composite sampling; HIV; Matrix; Pooled testing; Screening

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TESTING; COMPOSITE SAMPLING; HIV; MATRIX; POOLED TESTING;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 78649232054     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920903391303     Document Type: Article

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