Informative retesting

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 105, Issue 491, 2010, Pages 942-955

  Bilder, Christopher R ^a   Tebbs, Joshua M ^b   Chen, Peng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary response; Chlamydia; Gonorrhea; Group testing; Identification; Pooled testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649397736     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2010.ap09231     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Bilder, C., and Tebbs, J.(2009), "Bias, Efficiency, and Agreement for Group- Testing Regression Models," Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 79, 67-80.[953]
2. Bilder, C., Black, M., and Tebbs, J.(2009), "Expected Number of Tests for Halving and Matrix Pooling in Heterogeneous Populations," technical report, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Dept.of Statistics.[949,954]
3. Butylkina, R., Juseviciute, V., Kasparaviciene, G., Vagoras, A., Pagirskas, E., Unemo, M., and Domeika, M.(2007), "Pooling of Urine Specimens Allows Accurate and Cost-Effective Genetic Detection of Chlamydia Trachomatis in Lithuania and Other Low-Resource Countries," Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 39, 209-212.[943]
4. Dorfman, R.(1943), "The Detection of Defective Members of Large Populations," Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 14, 436-440.[942,943]
5. Gastwirth, J.(2000), "The Efficiency of Pooling in the Detection of Rare Mutations," American Journal of Human Genetics, 67, 1036-1039.[942]
6. Gastwirth, J., and Johnson, W.(1994), "Screening With Cost-Effective Quality Control: Potential Applications to HIV and Drug Testing," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89, 972-981.[942]
7. Hughes-Oliver, J.(2006), "Pooling Experiments for Blood Screening and Drug Discovery," in Screening: Methods for Experimentation in Industry, Drug Discovery, and Genetics, eds.A.Dean and S.Lewis, New York: Springer.[942]
8. Hwang, F.(1975), "A Generalized Binomial Group Testing Problem," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 70, 923-926.[942]
9. Infertility Prevention Project, Region VII (2003), "Screening and Treatment Guidelines." [942]
10. Johnson, N., Kotz, S., and Wu, X.(1991), Inspection Errors for Attributes in Quality Control, New York: Chapman & Hall.[944,951]
11. Kacena, K., Quinn, S., Hartman, S., Quinn, T., and Gaydos, C.(1998a), "Pooling of Urine Samples for Screening for Neisseria gonorrhoeae by Ligase Chain Reaction: Accuracy and Application," Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 36, 3624-3628.[942,943] (Pubitemid 28533241)
12. Kacena, K., Quinn, S., Howell, M., Madico, G., Quinn, T., and Gaydos, C.(1998b), "Pooling Urine Samples for Ligase Chain Reaction Screening for Genital Chlamydia trachomatis Infection in Asymptomatic Women," Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 36, 481-485.[942,943]
13. Kennedy, J.A.(2006), "Diagnostic Efficacy of a Reverse Transcriptase- Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay to Screen Cattle for Persistent Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Infection," Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 229, 1472-1474.[949]
14. Kim, H., Hudgens, M., Dreyfuss, J., Westreich, D., and Pilcher, C.(2007), "Comparison of Group Testing Algorithms for Case Identification in the Presence of Test Error," Biometrics, 63, 1152-1163.[943,948,949]
15. Litvak, E., Tu, X., and Pagano, M.(1994), "Screening for the Presence of a Disease by Pooling Sera Samples," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89, 424-434.[943,946,949]
16. Peck, C.(2006), "Going After BVD," Beef, 42, 34-44.[942]
17. Phatarfod, R., and Sudbury, A.(1994), "The Use of a Square Array Scheme in Blood Testing," Statistics in Medicine, 13, 2337-2343.[949]
18. Pilcher, C., Fiscus, S., Nguyen, T., Foust, E., Wolf, L., Williams, D., Ashby, R., O'Dowd, J., McPherson, J., Stalzer, B., Hightow, L., Miller, W., Eron, J., Cohen, M., and Leone, P.(2005), "Detection of Acute Infections During HIV Testing in North Carolina," New England Journal of Medicine, 352, 1873-1883.[943,949,951] (Pubitemid 40627813)
19. Remlinger, K., Hughes-Oliver, J., Young, S., and Lam, R.(2006), "Statistical Design of Pools Using Optimal Coverage and Minimal Collision," Technometrics, 48, 133-143.[942,953]
20. Schmidt, M., Roth, W., Meyer, H., Seifried, E., and Hourfar, M.(2005), "Nucleic Acid Test Screening of Blood Donors for Orthopoxviruses Can Potentially Prevent Dispersion of Viral Agents in Case of Bioterrorism," Transfusion, 45, 399-403.[942]
21. Shipitsyna, E., Shalepo, K., Savicheva, A., Unemo, M., and Domeika, M.(2007), "Pooling Samples: The Key to Sensitive, Specific and Cost- Effective Genetic Diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis in Low-Resource Countries," Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 87, 140-143.[943]
22. Sterrett, A.(1957), "On the Detection of Defective Members of Large Populations," Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 28, 1033-1036.[943]
23. Stramer, S., Glynn, S., Kleinman, S., Strong, D., Caglioti, S., Wright, D., Dodd, R., and Busch, M.(2004), "Detection of HIV-1 and HCV Infections Among Antibody-Negative Blood Donors by Nucleic Acid-Amplification Testing," New England Journal of Medicine, 351, 760-768.[942,952]
24. Tebbs, J., and Bilder, C.(2004), "Confidence Interval Procedures for the Probability of Disease Transmission in Multiple-Vector-Transfer Designs," Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 9, 75-90.[942]
25. Thorburn, D., Dundas, D., McCruden, E., Cameron, S., Goldberg, D., Symington, I., Kirk, A., and Mills, P.(2001), "A Study of Hepatitis C Prevalence in Healthcare Workers in the West of Scotland," Gut, 48, 116-120.[953]
26. Vansteelandt, S., Goetghebeur, E., and Verstraeten, T.(2000), "Regression Models for Disease Prevalence With Diagnostic Tests on Pools of Serum Samples," Biometrics, 56, 1126-1133.[943,952,953]
27. Xie, M.(2001), "Regression Analysis of Group Testing Samples," Statistics in Medicine, 20, 1957-1969.[943]
28. Yao, Y., and Hwang, F.(1988), "Individual Testing of Independent Items in Optimal Group Testing," Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 2, 23-29.[942]
29. Zagurski, K.(2006), "Douglas County Rates B+ on Meetings Its Health Goals, but Dr.Adi Pour Says There's 'A Lot of Work to Be Done' on Reducing STDs," Omaha World Herald, Feb.2, p.08B.[942]