Pooled-testing procedures for screening high volume clinical specimens in heterogeneous populations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 3261-3268

  Bilder, Christopher R ^a   Tebbs, Joshua M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Composite sampling; Group testing; Identification; Infertility Prevention Project; Screening

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; POOLED TESTING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SAMPLE SIZE; SCREENING TEST;

ALGORITHMS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84869089948     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5334     Document Type: Article

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