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Methods are sought to test adaptively whether a subpopulation proportion follows the same time evolution as the population proportion. The motivating case study is the COVID-19 screening in a university community, taking into account the time evolution of the pandemic in the whole country.
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The authors would like to thank Paola Lerario and Maurizio Galetto for insights and details on the organization of the screening procedure in Politecnico di Torino and Enrico Bibbona for some critical discussions. The authors would like to thank also two anonymous reviewers, who greatly helped to improve the quality of the manuscript.
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Di Stefano, F., Gasparini, M. (2022). Adaptive COVID-19 Screening of a Subpopulation. In: Salvati, N., Perna, C., Marchetti, S., Chambers, R. (eds) Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics . SIS 2021. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 406. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16609-9_8
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