Description
Pooled data (experiment no. 300 and 301) 
Dose MORBIDITY NOT MORBIDITY Total
13 2 4 6
25 1 3 4
66 2 0 2
83 2 0 2
99 2 0 2
126 6 1 7
182 7 0 7
1110 1 1 2
1260 17 1 18
1770 2 0 2
2290 2 0 2
2590 2 0 2
3170 2 0 2
5060 7 0 7
5520 2 0 2
5650 2 0 2
5670 1 0 1
7460 2 0 2
9200 2 0 2
10800 2 0 2
16800 2 0 2
41000 2 0 2
45500 3 0 3
53200 2 0 2
55200 2 0 2
132000 2 0 2
149000 2 0 2

 

Goodness of fit and model selection
Model Deviance Δ Degrees 
of freedom		 χ20.95,1 
p-value		 χ20.95,m-k 
p-value
Exponential 42.2 30.5 26 3.84 
3.41e-08		 38.9 
0.0235
Beta Poisson 11.7 25 37.7 
0.989
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 7.77E-01 3.82E-01 4.41E-01 4.90E-01 4.24E+00 3.59E+03 3.25E+04
N50 2.13E+01 5.70E+00 8.34E+00 1.01E+01 4.00E+01 4.16E+01 5.10E+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

# of Doses
27.00
Μodel
beta-Poisson
N50
2.13E+01
LD50/ID50
2.13E+01
Dose Units
CFU
Response
morbidity
Contains Preferred Model
a
7.77E-01
Agent Strain
R1 and Sheila Smith
Experiment ID
300 and 301
Host type
pooled
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