aflatoxin {faraway}R Documentation

aflatoxin dosage and liver cancer in lab animals

Description

Aflatoxin B1 was fed to lab animals at vary doses and the number responding with liver cancer recorded.

Usage

data(aflatoxin)

Format

A data frame with 6 observations on the following 3 variables.

dose
dose in ppb
total
number of test animals
tumor
number with liver cancer

Source

Gaylor DW (1987) "Linear nonparametric upper limits for low dose extrapolation" ASA Proceedings of the Biopharmaceutical Section.

Examples

data(aflatoxin)

[Package faraway version 1.0.4 Index]