id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-260481-twk5kvd3 Täufer, Matthias Rapid, large-scale, and effective detection of COVID-19 via non-adaptive testing 2020-08-18 .txt text/plain 3854 226 64 More precisely, assuming knowledge about the overall incidence rate, we calculate explicit error bounds on the number of false positives which scale favourably with pool size and sample multiplicity. then in any multipooling strategy with pool size n and multiplicity k, the probability of a positive test being a false positive does not exceed fp . Table 1 : Probability of a positive result being a false positive and the compression k/n compared to individual testing for pool size n = 31, incidence ρ ≤ 0.01 and different multiplicities k. If we choose k = 4 and accept fp = 1.2% as the k fp k/n 3 0.17 0.049 4 0.012 0.066 5 0.0007 0.082 Table 2 : Probability of a positive result being a false positive and the compression k/n compared to individual testing for pool size n = 31, incidence ρ ≤ 0.01 and different multiplicities k. ./cache/cord-260481-twk5kvd3.txt ./txt/cord-260481-twk5kvd3.txt