serum {GLMsData}

Mice surviving doses of antipneumococcus serum

Description

The number of mice surviving a test dose of culture with five different doses of antipneumococcus serum

Usage

data(serum)

Format

A data frame with 5 observations on the following 3 variables.

Dose

the dose of antipneumococcus serum in cc; a numeric vector

Number

the number of surviving mice; a numeric vector

Survivors

the number of mice in each group; a numeric vector

Details

The number of mice surviving a test dose of culture with five different doses of antipneumococcus serum prior to being infected with pneumocci.

Source

J. O. Irwin and E. A. Cheeseman (1939) On the maximum-likelihood method of determining dosage–response curves and approximations to the median-effective dose, in cases of a quantal response. Supplement to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 6(2), 174–185.

Examples

data(serum)
summary(serum)