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mice (10day old, day1) /  Pseudomonas aeruginosa [1]
| Dose | Dead | Survived | Total |  
| 2.5 | 0 | 10 | 10 |  
| 25 | 0 | 16 | 16 |  
| 250 | 0 | 15 | 15 |  
| 2500 | 0 | 13 | 13 |  
| 25000 | 12 | 4 | 16 |  
| 250000 | 14 | 3 | 17 |  | 
 
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Goodness of fit and model selection
| Model | Deviance | Δ | Degrees of freedom
 | χ20.95,1 p-value
 | χ20.95,m-k p-value
 |  
| Exponential | 21.1 | 13.8 | 5 | 3.84 0.000207
 | 11.1 0.000783
 |  
| Beta Poisson | 7.32 | 4 | 9.49 0.12
 |  
| Beta-Poisson fits better than exponential; cannot reject good fit for beta-Poisson. |  | 
 
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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 | 6.73E-01 | 3.02E-01 | 3.62E-01 | 3.80E-01 | 1.55E+00 | 6.30E+03 | 1.06E+04 |  
| N50 | 1.93E+04 | 9.62E+03 | 1.12E+04 | 1.18E+04 | 3.42E+04 | 4.01E+04 | 5.18E+04 |  | 
 
 
 

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