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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-statistics-and-management-systems</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title> Journal of Statistics and Management Systems</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0014</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0510</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JSMS-1220</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Large deviations : Estimating the number of positive individuals in a Bernoulli sample through sample pooling</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Katsekpor</surname>
            <given-names>Thomas</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Doku-Amponsah</surname>
            <given-names>Kwabena</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Statistics &amp; Actuarial Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>27</volume>
      <issue>5</issue>
      <fpage>959</fpage>
      <lpage>969</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>05</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>We define the empirical positives measure as a stochastic measure that quantifies the number of infections in a Bernoulli sample. Similarly, we define the empirical pool measure as a stochastic measure that enumerates the number of infected pool samples. A joint large deviation principle (LDP) is established for both empirical measures derived from the Bernoulli samples. Using this joint LDP, we establish a correlation between the asymptotic ratio of infected individuals to the sample size and the asymptotic ratio of infected pool samples to the total number of pool samples.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Large deviations</kwd>
        <kwd>Infected pool sample</kwd>
        <kwd>Empirical pool measure</kwd>
        <kwd>Empirical positives  measure</kwd>
        <kwd>Integer partition</kwd>
        <kwd>Entropy</kwd>
        <kwd>Relative entropy</kwd>
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