Adaptive Group Testing Algorithms to Estimate the Number of Defectives

12/02/2017

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by   Nader H. Bshouty, et al.

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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.