Statistical modeling for practical pooled testing during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Comess, H Wang, S Holmes, C Donnat - Statistical Science, 2022 - projecteuclid.org
Statistical Modeling for Practical Pooled Testing During the COVID-19 Pandemic Page 1
Statistical Science 2022, Vol. 37, No. 2, 229–250 https://doi.org/10.1214/22-STS857 © Institute of …

Pooled testing efficiency increases with test frequency

N Augenblick, J Kolstad… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Pooled testing increases efficiency by grouping individual samples and testing the
combined sample, such that many individuals can be cleared with one negative test. This …

Pool testing on random and natural clusters of individuals: Optimisation of SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in the presence of low viral load samples

M Baccini, E Rocco, I Paganini, A Mattei, C Sani… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Facing the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic requires intensive testing on the population to early
identify and isolate infected subjects. During the first emergency phase of the epidemic, RT …

Optimizing sars-cov-2 pooled testing strategies through differentiated pooling for distinct groups

LM Filiatreau, PN Zivich, JK Edwards… - American journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Pooled testing has been successfully used to expand SARS-CoV-2 testing, especially in
settings requiring high volumes of screening of lower-risk individuals, but efficiency of …

Screening plans for SARS-CoV-2 based on sampling and rotation: An example in a European school setting

M Baccini, G Cereda - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Screening plans for prevention and containment of SARS-CoV-2 infection should take into
account the epidemic context, the fact that undetected infected individuals may transmit the …

Pooled testing of traced contacts under superspreading dynamics

S Tsirtsis, A De, L Lorch… - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Testing is recommended for all close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 patients. However,
existing pooled testing methods are oblivious to the circumstances of contagion provided by …

Optimal Dorfman group testing for symmetric distributions

NC Landolfi, S Lall - SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 2024 - SIAM
We study Dorfman's classical group testing protocol in a novel setting where individual
specimen statuses are modeled as exchangeable random variables. We are motivated by …

Machine Learning and Statistical Approaches for Efficient Disease Screening

NC Landolfi - 2024 - search.proquest.com
We study probabilistic models with algebraic group symmetry and associated algorithms.
We are motivated by pooled testing, which is widely used to conserve resources when …