Estimation of Acute Toxicity by Fitting a Dose-Time-Response Surface
In acute toxicity testing, organisms are continuously exposed to progressively increasing concentrations of a chemical and deaths of test organisms are recorded at several selected times. The results of the test are traditionally summarized by a dose‐response curve, and the time course of effect is...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Risk analysis 1995-04, Vol.15 (2), p.247-252 |
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Zusammenfassung: | In acute toxicity testing, organisms are continuously exposed to progressively increasing concentrations of a chemical and deaths of test organisms are recorded at several selected times. The results of the test are traditionally summarized by a dose‐response curve, and the time course of effect is usually ignored for lack of a suitable model. A model which integrates the combined effects of dose and exposure duration on response is derived from the biological mechanisms of aquatic toxicity, and a statistically efficient approach for estimating acute toxicity by fitting the proposed model is developed in this paper. The proposed procedure has been computerized as software and a typical data set is used to illustrate the theory and procedure. The new statistical technique is also tested by a data base of a variety of chemical and fish species. |
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ISSN: | 0272-4332 1539-6924 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1995.tb00318.x |