分组检测是一种经济且有效的检测算法。它在流行病学、农业及基因组学等领域有着广泛的应用。本文主要从分组检测的起源、发展及其应用着手,着重于介绍分组检测算法中的统计推断方法,并讨论了目前分组检测算法面临的一些问题和挑战。
Group testing is an effective and cost saving method for screening infected samples. It has been applied in many fields, for example, epidemiology, agriculture and genetics. In this note, we review the history and recent development of the group testing. We mainly focus on the statistical methods and also discuss the problem and challenges in group testing.