Group testing in heterogeneous populations by using halving algorithms

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 277-290

  Black, Michael S ^a   Bilder, Christopher R ^a   Tebbs, Joshua M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary response; Classification; Identification; Pooled testing; Retesting; Screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858154443     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2011.01008.x     Document Type: Article

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