Experiment ID
282
Pathogen
Agent Strain
ATCC 19660
Contains Preferred Model
No
Reference
Hazlett, L. D., Rosen, D. D., & Berk, R. S. (1978). Age-Related Susceptibility to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Ocular Infections in Mice. Infection and Immunity, 20, 1.
Exposure Route
injected in eyelids
Response
death(after day 21)
Host type
Swiss webster mice (5day old)
# of Doses
6.00
Dose Units
CFU
Μodel
exponential
k
1.39E-04
LD50/ID50
4.98E+03
Description
mice (5day old) /  Pseudomonas aeruginosa 
Dose Dead Survived Total
2.5 0 13 13
25 0 14 14
250 0 12 12
2500 4 13 17
25000 15 0 15
250000 17 0 17

 

Goodness of fit and model selection
Model Deviance Δ Degrees 
of freedom
χ20.95,1 
p-value
χ20.95,m-k 
p-value
Exponential

2.17

-0.000196 

5 3.84 
1
11.1 
0.825
Beta Poisson

2.17

4 9.49 
0.704
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 1.39E-04 8.87E-05 9.90E-05 9.90E-05 2.05E-04 2.36E-04 2.73E-04
ID50/LD50/ETC* 4.98E+03 2.54E+03 2.94E+03 3.38E+03 7.00E+03 7.00E+03 7.82E+03
*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

  • Hazlett, L. D., Rosen, D. D., & Berk, R. S. (1978). Age-Related Susceptibility to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Ocular Infections in Mice. Infection and Immunity, 20, 1.