mortality_HCD {predint}

Historical mortality of male B6C3F1-mice

Description

This data set contains historical control data about the mortality of male B6C3F1-mice obtained in long term carcinogenicity studies at the National Toxicology Program presented in NTP Historical Control Reports from 2013 to 2016. It was used in Menssen and Schaarschmidt 2019 as a real life example.

Usage

mortality_HCD

Format

A data.frame with 2 rows and 10 columns:

dead

no. of dead mice

alive

no. of living mice

References

Menssen and Schaarschmidt (2019): Prediction intervals for overdispersed binomial data with application to historical controls. Statistics in Medicine. doi:10.1002/sim.8124
NTP Historical Control Reports: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/data/controls