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ArticleStatistics in medicine2021

Discussion on "Is group testing ready for prime-time in disease identification".

Christopher R Bilder, Joshua M Tebbs, Christopher S McMahan

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Article in Statistics in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Christopher R BilderDepartment of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2848-8576
Joshua M TebbsDepartment of Statistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6762-7241
Christopher S McMahanSchool of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5056-9615
Clemson University · USUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln · USUniversity of South Carolina · US

Funding

Group testing for infectious disease detection: multiplex assays and back-end screeningR01AI121351 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI BILDER, CHRISTOPHER R · 2016 to 2025
$3.3M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI121351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID34251038
PMCPMC8441930
OpenAlexW3181900022

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.