Experiment ID
312, 313
Pathogen
Agent Strain
type 14
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
12.00
Dose Units
TCID50
Μodel
beta-Poisson
a
1.82E-01
N50
1.38E+01
LD50/ID50
1.38E+01
Description
TITLE 
Dose INFECTION NOT

INFECTION || Total

0.05 0 4 4
0.15 1 4 5
0.5 0 4 4
0.5 3 14 17
1.5 2 3 5
1.5 4 10 14
5 1 4 5
5 4 11 15
15 4 3 7
50 28 14 42
150 13 8 21
300 5 2 7

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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 78.6 72.3 11 3.84 
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19.7 
2.8e-12
Beta Poisson 6.22 10 18.3 
0.796
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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 1.82E-01 1.04E-03 1.03E-01 1.14E-01 3.04E-01 3.38E-01 4.09E-01
N50 1.38E+01 2.98E+00 5.64E+00 6.67E+00 3.77E+01 4.98E+01 1.32E+02

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