Group Testing With Probabilistic Tests: Theory, Design and Application

  • Authors:
  • Mahdi Cheraghchi;Ali Hormati;Amin Karbasi;Martin Vetterli

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA;School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Lausanne, SwitzerlandSwitzerland;School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Identification of defective members of large populations has been widely studied in the statistics community under the name of group testing. It involves grouping subsets of items into different pools and detecting defective members based on the set of test results obtained for each pool.