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An Improvement Over the Information Lower Bound in Binomial Group Testing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Y.C. Yao
Y.C. Yao
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Department of StatisticsColorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
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Abstract

The group-testing problem for a binomial set of items is considered. It is desired to classify all items as good or defective with a minimum expected number of group tests. An improvement over the information lower bound, via a weak concavity property, is made for the minimum expected number of group tests.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1988 , pp. 313 - 320
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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