Flour beetle mortality data

Mortality of flour beetles (Tribolium confusum) due to exposure to gaseous carbon disulfide CS\(_{2}\), from Bliss (1935).

Beetle

Format

Beetle is a data frame with 5 elements.

Prop

a matrix with two columns named nkilled and nsurvived

mortality

observed mortality rate

dose

the dose of CS\(_{2}\) in mg/L

n.tested

number of beetles tested

n.killed

number of beetles killed.

Source

Bliss, C. I. 1935 The calculation of the dosage-mortality curve. Annals of Applied Biology 22, 134–167.

References

Burnham, K. P. and Anderson, D. R. 2002 Model selection and multimodel inference: a practical information-theoretic approach. 2nd ed. New York, Springer-Verlag.

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