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A Covid-19 Teaching Example: Pooled Testing With Microsoft Excel, Humberto Barreto
A Covid-19 Teaching Example: Pooled Testing With Microsoft Excel, Humberto Barreto
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This paper uses pooled testing as a teaching example for undergraduate statistics, econometrics, or quantitative methods courses. It offers step-by-step instructions to create an Excel spreadsheet that uses Monte Carlo simulation to find the optimal group size for a given infection rate. A completed version of the spreadsheet, along with readings, questions, and analytical solution is available at tiny.cc/pooledtesting.