bliss {faraway}

Insect mortality due to insecticide

Description

An experiment measuring death rates for insects, with 30 insects at each of five treatment levels.

Format

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

dead

number dead

alive

number alive

conc

concentration of insecticide

Source

Bliss (1935). The calculation of the dosage-mortality curve. Annals of Applied Biology 22, 134-167.

Examples

data(bliss)
## maybe str(bliss) ; plot(bliss) ...