Group Testing: An Information Theory Perspective Tapa blanda - 2019

Paperback / softback. New. The focus of this book is on the non-adaptive setting of group testing. In this setting, the test pools are designed in advance enabling them to be implemented in parallel. The book gives a comprehensive and thorough treatment of the subject from an information theoretic perspective, and covers several related developments.

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Now Publishers, 2019 8vo (23.5 cm). VIII, 200 pp. Laminated wrappers. "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? Group testing has since found applications in medical testing, biology, telecommunications, information technology, data science, and more. The focus of this survey is on the non-adaptive setting of group testing. In this setting, the test pools are designed in advance enabling them to be implemented in parallel. The survey gives a comprehensive and thorough treatment of the subject from an information theoretic perspective. It covers several related developments: efficient… Leer más