ml4b {drc}R Documentation

The modified logistic function

Description

'ml4b' provides Cedergreen-Ritz-Streibig's modified logistic dose response function.

Usage

ml4b(names = c("b", "c", "d", "e", "f"), useDer = FALSE)

Arguments

names a vector of character strings giving the names of the parameters. The default is reasonable (see above).
useDer logical. If TRUE derivatives are supplied, otherwise they are not supplied. Not yet implemented!

Details

The model is given by the expression

f(x) = c + frac{d-c+f exp(-1/(x^{0.5}))}{1+exp(b(log(x)-log(e)))}

which is a five-parameter model.

It is a modification of the four-parameter logistic curve to take hormesis into account.

Value

See mlogistic.

Note

This function is for use with the function multdrc.

Author(s)

Christian Ritz

References

Cedergreen, N. and Ritz, C. and Streibig, J. C. (2005) Improved empirical models describing hormesis, Submitted.

See Also

Similar functions are ml4a and ml4c.

Examples


## Modified logistic model
model1 <- multdrc(hormesis[,c(2,1)], fct=ml4b())
summary(model1)
ED(model1, c(50))

rm(model1)


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