Experiment ID
284
Pathogen
Agent Strain
ATCC 19660
Contains Preferred Model
No
Reference
Hazlett, L. D., Rosen, D. D., & Berk, R. S. (1978). Age-Related Susceptibility to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Ocular Infections in Mice. Infection and Immunity, 20, 1.
Exposure Route
injected in eyelids
Response
death(after day 2-21)
Host type
Swiss webster mice(10day old)
# of Doses
6.00
Dose Units
CFU
Μodel
beta-Poisson
a
5.49E-01
N50
1.13E+04
LD50/ID50
1.13E+04
Description
mice (10day old, day2-21) /  Pseudomonas aeruginosa 
Dose Dead Survived Total
2.5 0 10 10
25 0 16 16
250 0 15 15
2500 2 11 13
25000 13 3 16
250000 14 3 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

27.3

23.1 5 3.84 
 1.54e-06
11.1
5.01e-05
Beta Poisson

4.19

4 9.49 
0.381
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 5.49E-01 2.38E-01 2.87E-01 3.17E-01 1.37E+00 1.13E+01 1.15E+04
N50 1.13E+04 4.53E+03 5.70E+03 6.34E+03 2.17E+04 2.46E+04 3.39E+04

 

 

 

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

  • Hazlett, L. D., Rosen, D. D., & Berk, R. S. (1978). Age-Related Susceptibility to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Ocular Infections in Mice. Infection and Immunity, 20, 1.