BinGroup: A package for group testing

R Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 56-60

  Bilder, Christopher R ^a   Zhang, Boan ^a   Schaarschmidt, Frank ^b   Tebbs, Joshua M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 84874988850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.32614/rj-2010-016     Document Type: Article

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