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This data set illustrates the acute mortality of flour beetles (Tribolium confusum) following 5 hour exposure to carbon disulfide gas.
data(beetle)
A data frame with 8 rows and 4 variables.
Dose
dose of carbon disulfide in mg/L.
Number_tested
number of beetles exposed to given dose of carbon disulfide.
Number_killed
number of beetles dead after 5 hour exposure to given dose of carbon disulfide.
Mortality_rate
proportion of total beetles found dead after 5 hour exposure.
Burnham and Anderson (2002, p. 195) use this data set originally from Young and Young (1998) to show model selection for binomial models with different link functions (logit, probit, cloglog).
Burnham, K. P., Anderson, D. R. (2002) Model Selection and Multimodel Inference: a practical information-theoretic approach. Second edition. Springer: New York.
Young, L. J., Young, J. H. (1998) Statistical Ecology. Kluwer Academic Publishers: London.
data(beetle)
## maybe str(beetle) ; plot(beetle) ...
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