These data are concerned with the estimation of the lowest-cost mixtures of insecticides and synergists. They relate to assays on a grasshopper Melanopus sanguinipes with carbofuran and piperonyl butoxide, which enhances carbofuran's toxicity.
data(Melanopus)
A data frame with 15 rows and 4 variables:
a numeric vector indicating how many grasshoppers were killed.
a numeric vector indicating how many grasshoppers were exposed.
a numeric vector indicating the dose of insecticide.
a numeric vector indicating the dose of synergist.
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