Experiment ID
275
Agent Strain
Aa strain
Contains Preferred Model
No
Reference
John, D. T., & Hoppe, K. L. (1990). Susceptibility of Wild Mammals to Infection with Naegleria fowleri. The Journal of Parasitology, 76, 6.
Exposure Route
oral
Response
death
Host type
mice
# of Doses
5.00
Dose Units
CFU
Μodel
exponential
k
1.33E-07
LD50/ID50
5.22E+06
Description
Mice/ Aa strain model data
Dose Dead Survived Total
1E+04 0 22 22
1E+05 1 21 22
1E+06 1 10 11
1E+07 16 6 22
1E+08 22 0 22

 

Goodness of fit and model selection
Model Deviance Δ Degrees 
of freedom
χ20.95,1 
p-value
χ20.95,m-k 
p-value
Exponential 1.27 0.0341 4 3.84 
0.854
9.49 
0.867
Beta Poisson 1.23 3 7.81 
0.745
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 1.33E-07 6.86E-08 7.91E-08 8.83E-08 2.06E-07 2.24E-07 2.75E-07
ID50/LD50/ETC* 5.22E+06 2.52E+06 3.10E+06 3.37E+06 7.85E+06 8.76E+06 1.01E+07
*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