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Dose-Response Analysis Using R

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  • Christian Ritz
  • Florent Baty
  • Jens C Streibig
  • Daniel Gerhard

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Dose-response analysis can be carried out using multi-purpose commercial statistical software, but except for a few special cases the analysis easily becomes cumbersome as relevant, non-standard output requires manual programming. The extension package drc for the statistical environment R provides a flexible and versatile infrastructure for dose-response analyses in general. The present version of the package, reflecting extensions and modifications over the last decade, provides a user-friendly interface to specify the model assumptions about the dose-response relationship and comes with a number of extractors for summarizing fitted models and carrying out inference on derived parameters. The aim of the present paper is to provide an overview of state-of-the-art dose-response analysis, both in terms of general concepts that have evolved and matured over the years and by means of concrete examples.

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  • Christian Ritz & Florent Baty & Jens C Streibig & Daniel Gerhard, 2015. "Dose-Response Analysis Using R," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(12), pages 1-13, December.
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    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146021
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