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A Monotonicity Result for Inspecting Independent Items

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

F.K. Hwang  and
S.G. Papastavridis
F.K. Hwang
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
S.G. Papastavridis
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsUniversity of Patras, Greece
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Abstract

Recently, the conjecture that the expected number of tests is nondecreasing in the failure probability for binomial group testing has been proved. The proof has also been extended to three models of multiaccess systems. However, probabilistic algorithms are used as a crucial part of these proofs. In this paper, we give conceptually simpler new proofs without using probabilistic algorithms. We also extend the result to a more general model where the number of tests is replaced by a cost function.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 135 - 140
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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