survival:
Survival of Rats after Radiation Doses
Description
The survival
data frame has 14 rows and 2 columns.
The data measured the survival percentages of batches of rats who were given
varying doses of radiation. At each of 6 doses there were two or three
replications of the experiment.
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
dose
-
The dose of radiation administered (rads).
surv
-
The survival rate of the batches expressed as a percentage.
Source
The data were obtained from Efron, B. (1988) Computer-intensive methods in statistical regression.
SIAM Review, 30, 421--449.References
Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997)
Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.