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. 2021 Apr 30;129(4):047013. doi: 10.1289/EHP8495

Figure 4.

Figure 4 is a matrix plotting 0, 5, 50, 300, 500, 2000, 5000 milligrams per kilogram (columns) across very toxic, non-toxic, Environmental Protection Agency, United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals, dose of a substance that would be expected to kill half the animals in a test group, and Weight of evidence (rows).

Example of identifying the winning bin and reconciling the consensus predictions across five end points using the WoE (weight of evidence) approach. The columns represent the different bins from the EPA and GHS categories combined. The rows represent the five different end points and the WoE prediction. The arrows in each row represent the range of the prediction for each end point which were attributed a value of 1 and outside of it a value of 0. For the LD50 end point, the range limits are calculated by adding and subtracting the confidence interval of 0.3 in log value to the original LD50 prediction of 316mg/kg resulting in a range of 160 to 613mg/kg. The winning bin is determined by the maximum of the sum of each column in the WoE row. Note: EPA, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; GHS, U.N. Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals; LD50, dose of a substance that would be expected to kill half the animals in a test group; NT, nontoxic/toxic; VT, very toxic/not very toxic; WoE, weight of evidence.