survival {boot}

Survival of Rats after Radiation Doses

Description

The survival data frame has 14 rows and 2 columns.

The data measured the survival percentages of batches of rats who were given varying doses of radiation. At each of 6 doses there were two or three replications of the experiment.

Usage

survival

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

dose

The dose of radiation administered (rads).

surv

The survival rate of the batches expressed as a percentage.

Source

The data were obtained from

Efron, B. (1988) Computer-intensive methods in statistical regression. SIAM Review, 30, 421–449.

References

Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.