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SUBMITTER: Black MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4495770 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics 20150801 4
Hierarchical group testing is widely used to test individuals for diseases. This testing procedure works by first amalgamating individual specimens into groups for testing. Groups testing negatively have their members declared negative. Groups testing positively are subsequently divided into smaller subgroups and are then retested to search for positive individuals. In our paper, we propose a new class of informative retesting procedures for hierarchical group testing that acknowledges heterogen ...[more]