Técnicas não-paramétricas e paramétricas usadas na análise de sobrevivência de Chrysoperla externa (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Miranda, Marconi Silva
• Orientador(a): Martins Filho, Sebastião
• Banca de defesa: Siqueira, Maria Augusta Lima , Ribeiro Junior, José Ivo
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Estatística Aplicada e Biometria
• Departamento: Estatística Aplicada e Biometria
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Kaplan-Meier; Modelo exponencial; Modelo de Weibull; Modelo log-normal
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Kaplan-Meier; Exponential model; Weibull model; Log-normal model
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::PROBABILIDADE E ESTATISTICA::ESTATISTICA
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4055

In survival analysis, the response variable is the time of occurrence of an event of interest, denominated failure time. Another characteristic of the survival analysis is to incorporate to the study incomplete sample data, in which for a determined reason the occurrence of the event was not verified, being these data defined as censured. The objective of this paper was to compare the use of the parametric and non-parametric techniques to estimate the survival time of C. externa (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae), predator insect which feed on other insects as well as mite, under the effect of three commercial products nim-based: Neempro (10 g of azadirachtina L-1), Organic neem (3,3 g of Azadirachtina L-1) and Natuneem (1,5 g of azadirachtina L-1). With this objective the survival functions for the different concentrations of each product, through the non-parametric method of Kaplan-Meier were estimated and compared by the logrank test and by parametric techniques, using the Weibull and log-normal exponential tests. Besides that, a study in order to select the most parsimonious model was done, using for that the likelihood ratio test (LRT) as well as the Akaike information criterion (AIC). The estimates of the selected parametric model were used to determine the survival functions in the concentrations of the three products, with the purpose of comparing with the nonparametric estimator Kaplan-Meier. Once the best model was defined the median survival time of C. externa was calculated in the tested concentrations of the products. Taking into consideration the conditions described in this experiment, one can conclude that the concentrations of the nim-based products have influence in the survival of C. externa. The higher the concentration of the used products, the lower was the survival time and among the evaluated products, Neempro was the one which presented the least lethal to the natural predator.