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An example on Escherichia coli in ground beef
Description
The fictive example is as following:
A batch of ground beef is contaminated with E. coli, with a mean concentration ‘conc’.
Consumers may eat the beef "rare", "medium rare" or "well cooked". If "rare", no bacteria is killed. If "medium rare", 1/5 of bacteria survive. If "well cooked", 1/50 of bacteria survive.
The serving size is variable.
The risk of infection follows an exponential model.
For the one-dimensional model, it is assumed that:
conc <- 10
cook <- sample(n, x=c(1,1/5,1/50),replace=TRUE,prob=c(0.027,0.373,0.600))
serving <- rgamma(n, shape=3.93,rate=0.0806)
expo <- conc * cook * serving
dose <- rpois(n, lambda=expo)
risk <- 1-(1-0.001)^dose
For the two-dimensional model, it is assumed moreover that the concentration and the ‘r’ parameter of the dose response are uncertain.
conc <- rnorm(n,mean=10,sd=2)
r <- runif(n ,min=0.0005,max=0.0015)
Usage
data(ec)Format
A list of two expression to be passed in mcmodel
Source
Fictive example
References
None