Snail Mortality Data

Arguments

Species Snail species A (1) or B (2)
Exposure Exposure in weeks
Rel.Hum Relative humidity (4 levels)
Temp Temperature, in degrees Celsius (3 levels)
Deaths Number of deaths
N Number of snails exposed

Format

The data frame contains the following components:

Description

Groups of 20 snails were held for periods of 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks in carefully controlled conditions of temperature and relative humidity. There were two species of snail, A and B, and the experiment was designed as a 4 by 3 by 4 by 2 completely randomized design. At the end of the exposure time the snails were tested to see if they had survived; the process itself is fatal for the animals. The object of the exercise was to model the probability of survival in terms of the stimulus variables, and in particular to test for differences between species.

The data are unusual in that in most cases fatalities during the experiment were fairly small.

Source

Zoology Department, The University of Adelaide.


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