ISIT · 2014

Group Testing with Prior Statistics

Tongxin Li, Chun Lam Chan, Wenhao Huang, Tarik Kaced, Sidharth Jaggi

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

How can prior probabilities reduce the number of group tests?

Adaptive and nonadaptive testing algorithms exploit heterogeneous prior probabilities of defective items. Under the stated independence and sparsity assumptions, their measurement requirements approach information theoretic lower bounds up to explicit constant factors.

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Tongxin Li, Chun Lam Chan, Wenhao Huang, Tarik Kaced, Sidharth Jaggi. Group Testing with Prior Statistics. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875253

BibTeX
@inproceedings{tongxin-group-testing,
  title = {{Group Testing with Prior Statistics}},
  author = {Tongxin Li and Chun Lam Chan and Wenhao Huang and Tarik Kaced and Sidharth Jaggi},
  year = {2014},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875253},
  doi = {10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875253}
}
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