Abstract
Determining group size is a crucial stage before conducting experiments using group testing methods. Considering misclassification, we propose D-criterion and A-criterion to determine a robust group size for screening multiple infections simultaneously. Extensive simulation shows the advantage of the proposed method when the goal is estimation.
Acknowledgements
Authors thank the editor and anonymous referees for their constructive comments, which led to substantial improvements of the earlier version of this paper.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Funding
This work is supported by National Natural Science of China [nos. 11261009, 11371353], the Guangxi Science Foundation [2012GXNSFAA053004] and the key project of Guangxi Normal University [2014ZD002].