Group Testing: An Information Theory Perspective

by Oliver Johnson, Matthew Aldridge, Jonathan Scarlett

Group testing emerged as an area for research from the need for the US Government to screen recruits in the second world war for syphilis. Obviously rather than testing each recruit, a more efficient method involving the minimal number of tests was required. The central problem of group testing is thus: Given a number of items and a number of defectives, how many tests are required to accurately discover the defective items, and how can this be achieved?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680835963
• ISBN13: 9781680835960
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Now Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"