Optimality of group testing in the presence of misclassification

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Liu, Aiyi; Liu, Chunling; Zhang, Zhiwei; Albert, Paul S.
• 署名单位: National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD); Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• 刊物名称: BIOMETRIKA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0006-3444
• DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asr064
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 245251
• 关键词: estimating prevalence; rare disease; test error; proportions; hiv; specificity; sensitivity; antibodies; sera

摘要

Several optimality properties of Dorfman's (1943) group testing procedure are derived for estimation of the prevalence of a rare disease whose status is classified with error. Exact ranges of disease prevalence are obtained for which group testing provides more efficient estimation when group size increases.