Optimal test allocation

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11640%2F21%3A00553110" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11640/21:00553110 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/67985998:_____/21:00542215
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2021.105236" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2021.105236</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2021.105236" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jet.2021.105236</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Optimal test allocation
Original language description
A health authority chooses a binary action for each of several individuals that differ in their pretest probabilities of being infectious and in the additive losses associated with two types of decision errors. The authority is endowed with a portfolio of tests that differ in their sensitivities and specificities. We derive a simple necessary condition for optimality of test allocation. In special cases, precision parameters of the allocated test are monotone in the individuals’ types. We characterize the marginal benefit of a test, provide an algorithmic solution for the test-allocation problem and consider the benefits of confirmatory testing.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50201 - Economic Theory

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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