SMPracticals (version 1.3-1)

bliss: Bliss data on deaths of flour beetles

Description

These are the number of adult flour beetles which died following a 5-hour exposure to gaseous carbon disulphide.

Usage

data(bliss)

source

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

Examples

data(bliss)
attach(bliss)
plot(log(dose),r/m,ylim=c(0,1),ylab="Proportion dead")
fit <- glm(cbind(r,m-r)~log(dose),binomial)
summary(fit)