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dicentric: Radiation dose effects on chromosomal abnormality

Description

An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of gamma radiation on the numbers of chromosomal abnormalities observed

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 27 observations on the following 4 variables.

cells

Number of cells in hundreds

ca

Number of chromosomal abnormalities

doseamt

amount of dose in Grays

doserate

rate of dose in Grays/hour

References

Frome E. and DuFrain R. (1986) Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Cytogenic Dose-Response Curves. Biometrics. 42, 73-84.