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Adaptive Group Testing Algorithms to Estimate the Number of Defectives

Data Structures and Algorithms 2023-12-22 v2

Abstract

We study the problem of estimating the number of defective items in adaptive Group testing by using a minimum number of queries. We improve the existing algorithm and prove a lower bound that show that, for constant estimation, the number of tests in our algorithm is optimal.

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@article{arxiv.1712.00615,
  title  = {Adaptive Group Testing Algorithms to Estimate the Number of Defectives},
  author = {Nader H. Bshouty and Vivian E. Bshouty-Hurani and George Haddad and Thomas Hashem and Fadi Khoury and Omar Sharafy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.00615},
  year   = {2023}
}
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