Host type
# of Doses
6.00
Μodel
k
1.39E-04
LD50/ID50
4.98E+03
Dose Units
Response
Agent Strain
ATCC 19660
Exposure Route
Experiment Dataset
Description: 
mice (5day old) /  Pseudomonas aeruginosa [1]
Dose Dead Survived Total
2.5 0 13 13
25 0 14 14
250 0 12 12
2500 4 13 17
25000 15 0 15
250000 17 0 17

 

Goodness of fit and model selection
Model Deviance Δ Degrees 
of freedom
χ20.95,1 
p-value
χ20.95,m-k 
p-value
Exponential

2.17

-0.000196 

5 3.84 
1
11.1 
0.825
Beta Poisson

2.17

4 9.49 
0.704
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 1.39E-04 8.87E-05 9.90E-05 9.90E-05 2.05E-04 2.36E-04 2.73E-04
ID50/LD50/ETC* 4.98E+03 2.54E+03 2.94E+03 3.38E+03 7.00E+03 7.00E+03 7.82E+03
*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