التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
The efficient design of Nested Group Testing algorithms for disease identification in clustered data. |
| المؤلفون: |
Best, Ana F.1 (AUTHOR), Malinovsky, Yaakov2 (AUTHOR), Albert, Paul S.3 (AUTHOR) albertp@mail.nih.gov |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Applied Statistics. Aug2023, Vol. 50 Issue 10, p2228-2245. 18p. 4 Charts, 3 Graphs. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*ALGORITHMS, *ECONOMIC aspects of diseases, MEDICAL screening, DISEASE prevalence, RARE diseases, IDENTIFICATION |
| مستخلص: |
Group testing study designs have been used since the 1940s to reduce screening costs for uncommon diseases; for rare diseases, all cases are identifiable with substantially fewer tests than the population size. Substantial research has identified efficient designs under this paradigm. However, little work has focused on the important problem of disease screening among clustered data, such as geographic heterogeneity in HIV prevalence. We evaluated designs where we first estimate disease prevalence and then apply efficient group testing algorithms using these estimates. Specifically, we evaluate prevalence using individual testing on a fixed-size subset of each cluster and use these prevalence estimates to choose group sizes that minimize the corresponding estimated average number of tests per subject. We compare designs where we estimate cluster-specific prevalences as well as a common prevalence across clusters, use different group testing algorithms, construct groups from individuals within and in different clusters, and consider misclassification. For diseases with low prevalence, our results suggest that accounting for clustering is unnecessary. However, for diseases with higher prevalence and sizeable between-cluster heterogeneity, accounting for clustering in study design and implementation improves efficiency. We consider the practical aspects of our design recommendations with two examples with strong clustering effects: (1) Identification of HIV carriers in the US population and (2) Laboratory screening of anti-cancer compounds using cell lines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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