2018/02/27 by Yaakov Malinovsky, Malinovsky, Yaakov
Medicine · #90C39 #Applications (stat.AP) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1802.09992
openalex publication_date 2018/02/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In a recent volume of Mathematics Magazine (Vol. 90, No. 3, June 2017) there is an interesting article by Seth Zimmerman, titled Detecting Deficiencies: An Optimal Group Testing Algorithm. The claim in the summary is contradictory to well-known facts reported in the group- testing literature, which is easily verified, beginning with the work by Sobel and Groll (1959), which was cited by S. Zimmerman himself. Therefore, I feel compelled to offer a number of comments and clarifications. In addition, I have made some correction of mistaken claim made by Zimmerman (2017).