Example from Finney (1971)
For each of six concentration of an insecticid the number of insects affected (out of the number of insects) was recorded.
data(finney71)
A data frame with 6 observations on the following 3 variables.
dose
a numeric vector
total
a numeric vector
affected
a numeric vector
Finney, D. J. (1971) Probit Analysis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
## Model with ED50 as a parameter finney71.m1 <- drm(affected/total ~ dose, weights = total, data = finney71, fct = LL.2(), type = "binomial") summary(finney71.m1) plot(finney71.m1, broken = TRUE, bp = 0.1, lwd = 2) ED(finney71.m1, c(10, 20, 50), interval = "delta", reference = "control") ## Model fitted with 'glm' #fitl.glm <- glm(cbind(affected, total-affected) ~ log(dose), #family=binomial(link = logit), data=finney71[finney71$dose != 0, ]) #summary(fitl.glm) # p-value almost agree for the b parameter # #xp <- dose.p(fitl.glm, p=c(0.50, 0.90, 0.95)) # from MASS #xp.ci <- xp + attr(xp, "SE") %*% matrix(qnorm(1 - 0.05/2)*c(-1,1), nrow=1) #zp.est <- exp(cbind(xp.ci[,1],xp,xp.ci[,2])) #dimnames(zp.est)[[2]] <- c("zp.lcl","zp","zp.ucl") #zp.est # not far from above results with 'ED' ## Model with log(ED50) as a parameter finney71.m2 <- drm(affected/total ~ dose, weights = total, data = finney71, fct = LL2.2(), type = "binomial") ## Confidence intervals based on back-transformation ## complete agreement with results based on 'glm' ED(finney71.m2, c(10, 20, 50), interval = "fls", reference = "control")
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