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Matthew Wheeler edited this page Apr 24, 2023 · 12 revisions

Welcome to the ToxicR wiki!

The following pages describe how to install and use the ToxicR package.

For instructions on how to use the continuous model functionality, please see this page.

For instructions on how to use the dichotomous model functionality, please see this page.

For a walkthrough of showing problems with traditional maximum likelihood for continuous models, please see this page.

For a walkthrough of showing problems with traditional maximum likelihood for dichotomous models, please see this page.

Citing ToxicR

ToxicR is built upon various methodologies that are described in the literature. As it is a constant developing package, this section will change as we add new functionality.

To Cite the Package

Wheeler, M.W., Lim, S., House, J.S., Shockley, K.R., Bailer, A.J., Fostel, J., Yang, L., Talley, D., Raghuraman, A., Gift, J.S. and Davis, J.A., 2023. ToxicR: A computational platform in R for computational toxicology and dose–response analyses. Computational Toxicology, 25, p.100259.

To Cite the Dose Response Methods

Wheeler, M.W., Blessinger, T., Shao, K., Allen, B.C., Olszyk, L., Davis, J.A. and Gift, J.S., 2020. Quantitative Risk Assessment: Developing a Bayesian Approach to Dichotomous Dose–Response Uncertainty. Risk Analysis, 40(9), pp.1706-1722.

Wheeler, M.W. Cortinas,J. Aerts, M. Gift, J.S. Davis J.A., 2022. Continuous Model Averaging for Benchmark Dose Analysis: Averaging Over Distributional Forms. Resubmitted to Environmetrics.