Group testing regression analysis with covariates and specimens subject to missingness

• Published in: Statistics in medicine Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 731 - 744
• Main Authors: Delaigle, Aurore, Tan, Ruoxu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 15.03.2023; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: cost saving; fast screening; Medical research; Medical statistics; pooling data; prevalence estimation; Statistical analysis; prevalence estimation; pooling data; fast screening; cost saving

We develop parametric estimators of a conditional prevalence in the group testing context. Group testing is applied when a binary outcome variable, often a disease indicator, is assessed by testing a specimen for the presence of the disease. Instead of testing all individual specimens separately, th...