serum: Anti-pneumococcus serum
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 ($y$)
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.