Dose-response model of murine typhus (Rickettsia typhi): time post inoculation and host age dependency analysis

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 2 Model Fit Comparison for Seroconversion in Intradermally inoculated adult rats

Data set	Number of Doses	Model	Minimized Deviance	Degrees of Freedom	χ_α,n-k ²	Parameters	Difference in deviances	χ ² Value at 1 degree of freedom
[8]	8	Exponential*	0.88	7	14.06	k = 0.756	0	3.84
	8	Beta Poisson	0.88	6	12.59	α = 01.16e8
						N₅₀ = 0.91

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