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shelltox: Shell Toxicology data

Description

This is a classical developmental toxicology data set. Pregnant banded Dutch rabbits were treated with one of four levels of a chemical. The actual doses are not known, instead the groups are designated as Control, Low, Medium, and High. Before term the animals were sacrificed, and the total number of fetuses, as well as the number affected by the treatment was recorded.

Usage

data(shelltox)

Arguments

Format

A 'CBData' object, that is a data frame with the following variables

Trtfactor giving treatment group
ClusterSizethe size of the litter
NRespthe number of affected fetuses
Freqthe number of litters with the given ClusterSize/NResp combination

Examples

Run this code
  data(shelltox)
  stripchart(I(NResp/ClusterSize)~Trt, cex=sqrt(shelltox$Freq), data=shelltox, pch=1, 
             method="jitter", vertical=TRUE, ylab="Proportion affected")

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