Table 1. Statistics and efficiency of pool sizes of eight and five.
NA, not applicable.
| Pools of eight | Pools of five | All together | |
| Total number of pools | 14,697 | 3248 | 17,945 |
| Number of positive pools |
1367 | 717 | 2084 |
| Total number of samples |
117,576 | 16,240 | 133,816 |
| Number of positive samples |
1993 | 936 | 2929 |
| Total number of PCR reactions |
25,633 | 6833 | 32,466 |
| Prevalence rate | 1.7% | 5.8% | 2.19% |
| Optimal (predicted) Dorfman efficiency |
3.9553 | 2.1891 | NA |
| Our empirical efficiency |
4.587 | 2.377 | 4.122 |
|
P value of empirical Dorfman efficiency |
<10−5 | 0.00584 | NA |