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Experiment ID
283
Pathogen
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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 1)
Host type
Swiss webster mice(10day old)
# of Doses
6.00
Dose Units
CFU
Μodel
beta-Poisson
a
6.73E-01
N50
1.93E+04
LD50/ID50
1.93E+04
Description
mice (10day old, day1) /  Pseudomonas aeruginosa 
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

 

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.

 

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

  • 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.