| Article ID: | iaor20119269 |
| Volume: | 39 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 352 |
| End Page Number: | 354 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2011 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Cheng Yongxi |
| Keywords: | test programme |
We study the determination of the exact number of defective items in a sample set. We give a randomized group testing procedure to solve this problem. We prove that our testing procedure is efficient and has high success probability.