serum: Anti-pneumococcus serum

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

Data from a study examining the protective effect of a serum co-administered in increasing doses with an infecting dose of a pneumococci culture. Each dose group consisted of 40 mice (n) and the number of deaths caused by pneumonia was recorded (y)

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 5 observations on the following 3 variables.

dose

Dose of the anti-pneumococcus serum administered

y

Number of deaths in each dose group

n

Total number of mice in each dose group

Source

Smith, W. (1932) The titration of antipneumococcus serum. Journal of Pathology, 35, 509-526.

References

Collett, D. (2003) Modelling binary data. Second edition. Chapman & Hall/CRC.


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