Article ID: | iaor1991750 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 647 |
End Page Number: | 659 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1990 |
Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
Authors: | Bar-Lev Shaul K. |
A set of items is called group-testable if for any subset of these items it is possible to carry out a simultaneous test with two possible outcomes: ‘success,’ indicating that all items in the subset are good, and ‘failure,’ indicating a contaminated subset. The paper compares two alternatives of purchasing group-testable items in order to meet a demand of