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SUBMITTER: Zhang B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4301740 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Boan B Bilder Christopher R CR Tebbs Joshua M JM
Statistics in medicine 20130523 28
Group testing, where individual specimens are composited into groups to test for the presence of a disease (or other binary characteristic), is a procedure commonly used to reduce the costs of screening a large number of individuals. Group testing data are unique in that only group responses may be available, but inferences are needed at the individual level. A further methodological challenge arises when individuals are tested in groups for multiple diseases simultaneously, because unobserved i ...[more]