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. 2021 May 20;8(3):2170–2182. doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2021.3081759

TABLE I. The Expected Relative Cost of the Dorfman Two-Stage Algorithm With Group Size Inline graphic and the Lowest Expected Relative Cost of Inline graphic-Regular in [15]. The Numbers Given in Boldface are the Expected Relative Costs of Dorfman's Two-Stage Algorithm of the Smallest Values of Inline graphic That Outperform Those of the Inline graphic-Regular Pooling Matrices Under the Same Prevalence Rate Inline graphic.

The Dorfman Two-stage Algorithm Inline graphic-regular
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1% 11 0.1956 0.1865 0.1773 0.1681 0.1587 0.1493 0.1398 0.1302 0.1205 0.1108 0.1218
2% 8 0.2742 0.2620 0.2496 0.2371 0.2244 0.2116 0.1986 0.1854 0.1721 0.1586 0.1881
3% 6 0.3337 0.3207 0.3076 0.2943 0.2809 0.2673 0.2535 0.2395 0.2254 0.2111 0.2545
4% 6 0.3839 0.3675 0.3507 0.3337 0.3165 0.2989 0.2810 0.2629 0.2445 0.2257 0.3147
5% 5 0.4262 0.4098 0.3931 0.3762 0.3590 0.3415 0.3238 0.3057 0.2874 0.2689 0.3678
6% 5 0.4661 0.4472 0.4279 0.4082 0.3882 0.3678 0.3470 0.3259 0.3043 0.2824 0.4166
7% 5 0.5043 0.4831 0.4615 0.4393 0.4167 0.3935 0.3699 0.3457 0.3210 0.2958 0.4627
8% 4 0.5336 0.5148 0.4956 0.4761 0.4562 0.4360 0.4155 0.3947 0.3735 0.3519 0.5035
9% 4 0.5643 0.5437 0.5227 0.5014 0.4796 0.4574 0.4348 0.4117 0.3883 0.3643 0.5416
10% 4 0.5939 0.5718 0.5492 0.5261 0.5025 0.4784 0.4537 0.4286 0.4029 0.3767 0.5760