Research Article

Oversimplification and Overstandardization in Biological Methods: Sperm Bioassays in Ecotoxicology as a Case of Study and a Proposal for Their Reformulation

Figure 6

Simulation (points) of a single assay ( , 2 replicates, no smoothing) and its fitting (lines) to models (1) (U series) and (7) (B series). In B series, correlation between simulated and predicted results (B2), residuals as a function of the dose (B3) and dr relationships (U and B) according to the univariate (dotted lines) and bivariate (solid line) approaches are also shown. Acceptable fittings were not possible at and (omitted points at were located outside the represented domain) (The rest of keys as in Figure 2). See also text and Table 2.
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