data-budworm {pbkrtest}

R Documentation

budworm data

Description

Effect of Insecticide on survivial of tobacco budworms number of killed budworms exposed to an insecticidepp mortality of the moth tobacco budworm 'Heliothis virescens' for 6 doses of the pyrethroid trans-cypermethrin differentiated with respect to sex

Usage

budworm

Format

This data frame contains 12 rows and 4 columns:

sex:

sex of the budworm

dose:

dose of the insecticide trans-cypermethrin in [\mug]

ndead:

budworms killed in a trial

ntotal:

total number of budworms exposed per trial

Source

Collet, D. (1991) Modelling Binary Data, Chapman & Hall, London, Example 3.7

References

Venables, W.N; Ripley, B.D.(1999) Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus, Heidelberg, Springer, 3rd edition, chapter 7.2

Examples

Run examples

data(budworm)

## function to caclulate the empirical logits
empirical.logit<- function(nevent,ntotal) {
   y <- log((nevent + 0.5) / (ntotal - nevent + 0.5))
   y
}


# plot the empirical logits against log-dose

log.dose <- log(budworm$dose)
emp.logit <- empirical.logit(budworm$ndead, budworm$ntotal)
plot(log.dose, emp.logit, type='n', xlab='log-dose',ylab='emprirical logit')
title('budworm: emprirical logits of probability to die ')
male <- budworm$sex=='male'
female <- budworm$sex=='female'
lines(log.dose[male], emp.logit[male], type='b', lty=1, col=1)
lines(log.dose[female], emp.logit[female], type='b', lty=2, col=2)
legend(0.5, 2, legend=c('male', 'female'), lty=c(1,2), col=c(1,2))

## Not run: 
* SAS example;
data budworm;
infile 'budworm.txt' firstobs=2;
input sex dose ndead ntotal;
run;

## End(Not run)

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