Host type
# of Doses
7.00
Μodel
a
1.08E-01
N50
9.66E+06
LD50/ID50
9.66E+06
Dose Units
Response
Agent Strain
strain 533
Exposure Route
Experiment Dataset
Description: 
Mice/ Salmonella strain 533 data [1]
Dose Dead Survived Total
1E+04 20 180 200
1E+05 17 153 170
1E+06 11 29 40
3160000 6 24 30
1E+07 12 8 20
3.16E+07 17 3 20
1E+08 19 1 20

 

Goodness of fit and model selection
Model Deviance Δ Degrees 
of freedom
χ20.95,1 
p-value
χ20.95,m-k 
p-value
Exponential 214 165 6 3.84 
0
12.6 
0
Beta Poisson 48.7 5 11.1 
2.56e-09
Neither the exponential nor beta-Poisson fits well; beta-Poisson is less bad.

 

Optimized parameters for the beta-Poisson model, from 10000 bootstrap iterations
Parameter MLE estimate Percentiles
0.5% 2.5% 5% 95% 97.5% 99.5%
α 1.08E-01 6.19E-02 7.06E-02 7.52E-02 1.79E-01 1.98E-01 2.44E-01
N50 9.66E+06 1.93E+06 2.43E+06 2.82E+06 5.38E+07 8.11E+07 2.13E+08

 

Parameter scatter plot for beta Poisson model ellipses signify the 0.9, 0.95 and 0.99 confidence of the parameters.

beta Poisson model plot, with confidence bounds around optimized model


References