caa a22 4500 386350310 CHVBK 20180307111827.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0269964800001017 doi S0269964800001017 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0269964800001017 A Monotonicity Result for Inspecting Independent Items [Elektronische Daten] Recently, the conjecture that the expected number of tests is nondecreasing in the failure probability for binomial group testing has been proved. The proof has also been extended to three models of multiaccess systems. However, probabilistic algorithms are used as a crucial part of these proofs. In this paper, we give conceptually simpler new proofs without using probabilistic algorithms. We also extend the result to a more general model where the number of tests is replaced by a cost function. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Hwang F.K. AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 Papastavridis S.G. Department of Mathematics University of Patras, Greece Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences Cambridge University Press 3/1(1989-01), 135-140 0269-9648 3:1<135 1989 3 PES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269964800001017 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269964800001017 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hwang F.K. AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Papastavridis S.G. Department of Mathematics University of Patras, Greece NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences Cambridge University Press 3/1(1989-01), 135-140 0269-9648 3:1<135 1989 3 PES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge