Bliss (1935) Beetle Mortality Data

This dataset contains mortality data for adult flour beetles after five hours of exposure to gaseous carbon disulphide. The data were originally reported by Bliss (1935) and have subsequently been reanalyzed in studies of dose-response models and transformations for binary response data.

Usage

beetle_dose

Format

beetle_dose

A data frame with 8 rows and 3 columns:

dose

Numeric dose of gaseous carbon disulphide (CS₂), expressed as log10-transformed CS₂ mg/L

died

Integer number of adult flour beetles killed after five hours of exposure

n

Integer total number of adult flour beetles exposed

Source

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

References

Aranda-Ordaz, F. (1981). On two families of transformations to additivity for binary response data. Biometrika, 68, 357–363.

Hauck, W. (1990). Choice of scale and asymmetric logistic models. Biometrical Journal, 32, 79–86.

Prentice, R. L. (1976). A generalization of the probit and logit methods for dose response curves. Biometrics, 38, 761–768.

Pregibon, D. (1980). Goodness of link tests for generalized linear models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 29, 15–23.