This data set illustrates the acute mortality of flour beetles
(Tribolium confusum) following 5 hour exposure to carbon disulfide
gas.
Usage
data(beetle)
Arguments
Format
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.
Details
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).