Experiment ID
311
Pathogen
Agent Strain
type 39
Contains Preferred Model
No
Reference
Hendley, J. O., Edmondson, W. P., & Gwaltney, J. M. (1972). Relation between Naturally Acquired Immunity and Infectivity of Two Rhinoviruses in Volunteers. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 125, 3.
Exposure Route
intranasal
Response
infection
Host type
human
# of Doses
6.00
Dose Units
TCID50
Μodel
beta-Poisson
a
7.01E-01
N50
1.9E-01
LD50/ID50
1.9E-01
Description

Optimization Output for experiment 311

TITLE 
Dose INFECTION NOT

INFECTION || Total

0.05 0 2 2
0.15 1 3 4
0.5 5 2 7
1.5 18 1 19
5 1 0 1
50 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 61.7 56.8 5 3.84 
{{{pbPbetter}}}
11.1 
5.32e-12
Beta Poisson 4.95 4 9.49 
0

selection

Beta-Poisson fits better than exponential; cannot reject good fit for beta-Poisson.
Optimized parameters for the beta-Poisson model, from 10000 bootstrapiterations
Parameter MLE estimate Percentiles
0.5% 2.5% 5% 95% 97.5% 99.5%
α 7.01E-01 2.29E-01 3.14E-01 3.63E-01 1.81E+06 3.82E+06 1.41E+07
N50 1.9E-01 2.27E-02 5.85E-02 7.93E-02 4.20E-01 4.52E-01 5.56E-01

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

  • Hendley, O. ., Edmondson, W. P. , Jr, & Gwaltney, J. M. , Jr. (1972). Relation between naturally acquired immunity and infectivity of two rhinoviruses in volunteers. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 125, 243–248.