Group testing has its origin in the identification of syphilis in the US army during World War II.
Much of the theoretical framework of group testing was developed starting in the late 1950s …

Background The role of immunological responses to exposed bacteria on disease incidence
is increasingly under investigation. With many bacterial species, and many potential …

Pooled (or group) testing has been widely used for the surveillance of infectious diseases of
low prevalence. The potential benefits of pooled testing include savings in testing time and …

The article is focused on the problem of estimating the probability p of individual
contaminated sample, under group testing. The precision of the estimator is given by the …

Pooling is an attractive strategy in screening infected specimens, especially for rare
diseases. An essential step of performing the pooled test is to determine the group size …

Group (pooled) testing has long been used for the monitoring and detection of infectious
diseases. In group testing, pools comprised of individual biospecimens are amalgamated …

Group testing (pooling) is a commonly used method while screening for rare diseases,
especially for large-scale screening. In recent years there has been growing interest in direct …

This paper presents the analysis of a two-stage negative binomial group testing estimator of
the prevalence of a rare trait when imperfect diagnostic tests with known sensitivity and …

Group testing, in which individuals are pooled together and tested as a group, can be
combined with inverse sampling to estimate the prevalence of a disease. Alternatives to the …

Debiased estimation has long been an area of research in the group testing literature. This
has led to the development of several estimators with the goal of bias minimization and …