Host type
# of Doses
8.00
Μodel
k
1.99E-02
LD50/ID50
3.48E+01
Dose Units
Response
Agent Strain
From an infected human
Exposure Route
Experiment Dataset
Description: 
Dose response data [1]
Dose Infected Non-infected Total
1 0 5 5
10 2 0 2
25 6 14 20
100 2 0 2
1E+04 3 0 3
1E+05 3 0 3
3E+05 3 0 3
1E+06 2 0 2

 

Goodness of fit and model selection
Model Deviance Δ Degrees 
of freedom
χ20.95,1 
p-value
χ20.95,m-k 
p-value
Exponential 8.37 -0.000469 7 3.84 
1
14.1 
0.301
Beta Poisson 8.37 6 12.6 
0.212
Exponential is preferred to beta-Poisson; cannot reject good fit for exponential.

 

Optimized k parameter for the exponential model, from 10000 bootstrap iterations
Parameter MLE estimate Percentiles
0.5% 2.5% 5% 95% 97.5% 99.5%
k 1.99E-02 8.50E-03 1.05E-02 1.26E-02 2.92E-02 3.29E-02 3.71E-02
ID50/LD50/ETC* 3.48E+01 1.87E+01 2.11E+01 2.38E+01 5.49E+01 6.60E+01 8.15E+01
*Not a parameter of the exponential model; however, it facilitates comparison with other models.

 

Parameter histogram for exponential model (uncertainty of the parameter)

Exponential model plot, with confidence bounds around optimized model


References