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noEffect

Testing if there is a dose effect at all

Description

A significance test is provided for the comparison of the dose-response model considered and the simple linear regression model with slope 0 (a horizontal regression line corresponding to no dose effect)

Usage

noEffect(object)

Arguments

object

an object of class 'drc'.

Details

Perhaps useful for screening purposes.

Value

The likelihood ratio test statistic and the corresponding degrees of freedom and p-value are reported.

Author(s)

Christian Ritz

Examples

ryegrass.LL.4 <- drm(rootl ~ conc, data = ryegrass, fct = LL.4())

noEffect(ryegrass.LL.4)
# p-value < 0.0001: there is a highly significant dose effect!

drc

Analysis of Dose-Response Curves

v3.0-1

GPL-2 | file LICENCE

Authors

Christian Ritz <ritz@bioassay.dk>, Jens C. Strebig <streibig@bioassay.dk>

Initial release

2016-08-25