Lower Bound for Non-Adaptive Estimate the Number of Defective Items

We prove that to estimate within a constant factor the number of defective items in a non-adaptive group testing algorithm we need at least Ω̃((logn)(log(1/δ))) tests. This solves the open problem posed by Damaschke and Sheikh Muhammad in [9, 10].

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