If you find this research useful, I would be interested in hearing about how you are using group testing! Please send me an e-mail at chris@chrisbilder.com.

Grants funded:

• National Institutes of Health award #R01AI067373 (2007-2010), Disease Detection and Prevalence Estimation through Informative Group Testing, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
  • Abstract on CRISP

Journal article web pages containing programs, tables, and other important items:

• Bilder, C. R. (2009). Human or Cylon? Group Testing on Battlestar Galactica. Chance 22(3), 46-50. (Corresponding presentation is at www.chrisbilder.com/bsg; Springer web page where the PDF can be obtained)
• Chen, P., Tebbs, J. M., and Bilder, C. R. (2009). Global Goodness-of-fit for Group Testing Regression Models. Statistics in Medicine 28(23), 2912-2928. (web page will be made available shortly)
• Chen, P., Tebbs, J. M., and Bilder, C. R. (2009). Group Testing Regression Models with Fixed and Random Effects. Biometrics 65(4), 1270-1278.
• Bilder, C. R. and Tebbs, J. M. (2009).  Bias, efficiency, and agreement for group-testing regression models.  Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 79(1), 67-80. 
• Bilder, C. R. and Tebbs, J. M. (2005).  Empirical Bayesian estimation of the disease transmission probability in multiple-vector-transfer designs.  Biometrical Journal 47(4), 502-516. 
• Tebbs, J. M. and Bilder, C. R. (2004).  Confidence interval procedures for the probability of disease transmission in multiple-vector-transfer designs.  Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 9(1), 75-90. 

Some areas where Dr. Joshua M. Tebbs and I have used group testing in our joint research:

• Multiple-vector-transfer designs
• Testing of blood samples for diseases

Journal articles without web pages:

• Tebbs, J. M. and Bilder, C. R. (2006).  Hypothesis tests for and against a simple order among proportions estimated by pooled testing.  Biometrical Journal 48(5), 792-804.
• Bilder, C. R. (2005).  Group testing model estimation and inference.  2005 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 177-182.
• Bilder, C. R. and Tebbs, J. M. (2004).  Empirical Bayesian estimation of the disease transmission probability in multiple-vector-transfer designs.  2004 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 277-284.
• Tebbs, J. M., Bilder, C. R., and Moser, B. K. (2003).  An Empirical Bayes Group-Testing Approach to Estimating Small Proportions. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 32(5), 983-995.

Software:

• Zhang, B., Bilder, C., and Schaarschmidt, F. (2009). binGroup: Evaluation and experimental design for binomial group testing. R package version 1.0-3.
  • Technical report for fitting regression models with matrix pooling

Presentations:

• Bilder, C. R. “Turning data into knowledge to solve sci-fi problems,” Departmental seminar, Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, September 2, 2009; Lincoln, NE.
• Bilder, C. R., Tebbs, J. M., and Chen, P. “Informative retesting,” Contributed poster, 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, August 4, 2009; Washington, DC.
• Tebbs, J. M., Chen, P., and Bilder, C. R. “Inference for Variance Components in Generalized Linear Mixed Models for Pooled Binary Response," Contributed paper, 2009 IBS ENAR meetings, March 18, 2009; San Antonio, TX.
• Bilder, C.R. “Human or Cylon? Group testing on the Battlestar Galactica to save humanity,” Invited seminar, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, November 14, 2008; Manhattan, KS.
• Bilder, C. R. “Human or Cylon? Group testing on the Battlestar Galactica,” Invited seminar, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, October 5, 2007; Columbia, MO.
• Bilder, C. R. “Cylon Detection Through Group Testing," Invited seminar, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, April 13, 2007; Burnaby, BC.
• Bilder, C. R. “Just Group It!" Invited seminar, Department of Preventive and Societal Medicine and Department of Internal Medicine Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, November 17, 2005; Omaha, NE. (This was an introduction to group testing and a discussion of my NIH/NIAID grant proposal)
• Bilder, C. R. “Just Group It!" Departmental seminar, Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, September 7, 2005; Lincoln, NE. (This was just an introduction to group testing)
• Bilder, C. R. “Group Testing Model Estimation and Inference," Contributed poster, 2005 Joint Statistical Meetings, August 8, 2005; Minneapolis, MN. (handout)
• Bilder, C. R. and Tebbs, J. M. "Improved Group Testing Estimation of Trait Prevalence," Contributed poster, 2005 IBS ENAR meetings, March 20, 2005; Austin, TX.
• Bilder, C. R. and Tebbs, J. M. "Empirical Bayesian estimation of the disease transmission probability in multiple-vector-transfer designs," Contributed poster, 2004 Joint Statistical Meetings, August 10, 2004; Toronto, ON.
• Tebbs, J. M. and Bilder, C. R.  "Confidence interval procedures for the probability of disease transmission in multiple-vector-transfer designs," Contributed paper, 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings, August 5, 2003; San Francisco, CA.
• Tebbs, J. M. and Bilder, C. R.  "New Interval Estimation Procedures for the Disease Transmission Probability in Multiple-vector Transfer Designs," Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture, April 28, 2003; Manhattan, KS.  
• Bilder, C. R. and Tebbs, J. M. “Estimating the disease-transmission probability in multiple-vector transfer designs," Invited seminar, Oklahoma Chapter of the American Statistical Association, April 10, 2003; Stillwater, OK.  

Please see Joshua M. Tebbs' web page for more presentations.