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Proportional closeness estimation of probability of contamination under group testing. (English) Zbl 1403.62145

Summary: The article is focused on the problem of estimating the probability \(p\) of individual contaminated sample, under group testing. The precision of the estimator is given by the probability of proportional closeness, a concept defined in the Introduction. Two-stage and sequential sampling procedures are characterized. An adaptive procedure is examined.

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62L12 Sequential estimation
62L05 Sequential statistical design
62G15 Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions
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