Description
Escherichia coli (ETEC O111 (in paper as “E. coli 111, B4”)) in the human model data 
Dose Slight to severe illness No slight to severe illness Total
7E+06 7 4 11
5.31E+08 8 4 12
6.5E+09 11 0 11
9E+09 12 0 12

 

Goodness of fit and model selection
Model Deviance Δ Degrees 
of freedom		 χ20.95,1 
p-value 		χ20.95,m-k 
p-value
Exponential 39.8 33.4 3 3.84 
7.5e-09 		7.81 
1.19e-08
Beta Poisson 6.38 2 5.99 
0.0412
Neither the exponential nor beta-Poisson fits well; beta-Poisson is less bad.

 

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 2.63E-01 9.92E-04 7.95E-02 1.00E-01 4.71E-01 5.53E-01 1.48E+01
N50 3.56E+06 6.89E-01 1.15E+03 2.08E+03 1.85E+07 2.49E+07 4.18E+07
beta Poisson model plot, with confidence bounds around optimized model
beta Poisson model plot, with confidence bounds around optimized model

 

Parameter scatter plot for beta Poisson model ellipses signify the 0.9, 0.95 and 0.99 confidence of the parameters.
Parameter scatter plot for beta Poisson model ellipses signify the 0.9, 0.95 and 0.99 confidence of the parameters.

 

 

# of Doses
4.00
Μodel
beta-Poisson
N50
3.56E+06
LD50/ID50
3.56E+06
Dose Units
CFU
Response
slight to severe illness
Exposure Route
oral
Contains Preferred Model
a
2.63E-01
Agent Strain
ETEC O111 (in paper as "E. coli 111, B4")
Experiment ID
43
Host type
human
Experiment Dataset
Description
Escherichia coli (ETEC O55 (in paper as “type 55, B5”)) in the human model data 
Dose Slight to severe illness No slight to severe illness Total
1.43E+08 6 2 8
1.73E+09 5 2 7
5.33E+09 6 2 8
1.6E+10 7 1 8

 

Goodness of fit and model selection
Model Deviance Δ Degrees 
of freedom		 χ20.95,1 
p-value 		χ20.95,m-k 
p-value
Exponential 35 34.5 3 3.84 
4.2e-09 		7.81 
1.21e-07
Beta Poisson 0.486 2 5.99 
0.784
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 8.7E-02 9.87E-04 1.02E-03 1.67E-02 3.57E-01 4.67E-01 7.83E-01
N50 2.05E+05 3.40E-09 4.31E-06 2.31E-04 1.30E+08 2.09E+08 5.13E+08
Parameter scatter plot for beta Poisson model ellipses signify the 0.9, 0.95 and 0.99 confidence of the parameters.
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
beta Poisson model plot, with confidence bounds around optimized model
# of Doses
4.00
Μodel
beta-Poisson
N50
2.05E+05
LD50/ID50
2.05E+05
Dose Units
CFU
Response
slight to severe illness
Exposure Route
oral
Contains Preferred Model
a
8.7E-02
Agent Strain
ETEC O55 (in paper as “type 55, B5”)
Experiment ID
42
Host type
human
Experiment Dataset
Subscribe to slight to severe illness