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Experiment ID
300
Pathogen
Rickettsia rickettsi
Agent Strain
R1
Contains Preferred Model
No
Reference
Saslaw, S. ., & Carlisle, H. N. (1966). Aerosol infection of monkeys with Rickettsia rickettsii. Bacteriological Reviews, 30, 3.
Exposure Route
aerosol
Response
morbidity
Host type
rhesus monkey
# of Doses
24.00
Dose Units
CFU
Μodel
beta-Poisson
a
8.58E-01
N50
1.88E+01
LD50/ID50
1.88E+01
Description
Rhesus monkey Data 
Dose MORBIDITY NOT MORBIDITY Total
25 1 3 4
66 2 0 2
83 2 0 2
99 2 0 2
182 7 0 7
1110 1 1 2
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 27.6 16.4 23 3.84 
5.12e-05		 35.2 
0.232
Beta Poisson 11.2 22 33.9 
0.972
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 8.58E-01 9.77E-04 9.77E-04 9.78E-04 5.70E+06 1.41E+08 1.62E+11
N50 1.88E+01 3.58E-01 1.81E+00 7.74E+00 1.02E+03 4.02E+03 3.71E+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

  • Saslaw, S. ., & Carlisle, H. N. (1966). Aerosol infection of monkeys with Rickettsia rickettsii. Bacteriological Reviews, 30, 3.