Experiments for detection of Plasmodium berghei infected Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes using near-infrared spectroscopy

<strong>Experiments for detection of <em>Plasmodium berghei</em> infected <em>Anopheles stephensi</em> mosquitoes using near-infrared spectroscopy</strong> This dataset contains near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurements on <em>Plasmodium berghei</em> infected <em>Anopheles stephensi</em> mosquitoes reared in the lab together with either oocyst counts or sporozoite counts, correponding to the two experiments undertaken: Experiment 1 (oocysts), file "NIRSdata2017_Lab_AnSteph_PlasmBerg_oocysts.txt" Experiment 2 (sporozoites), file "NIRSdata2017_Lab_AnSteph_PlasmBerg_sporozoites.txt" For further details on the experimental setup see: P.M. Esperança, A.M. Blagborough, D.F. Da, F.E. Dowell, T.S. Churcher (2018) "Detection of <em>Plasmodium berghei</em> infected <em>Anopheles stephensi</em> using near-infrared spectroscopy". <em>Parasites and Vector</em>, <strong>11</strong>:377. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2960-z. The structure of the data files is as follows: column 1 (<strong>Scan_ID</strong>): scan identifier column 2 (<strong>Mosquito_ID</strong>): mosquito identifier column 3 (<strong>Replication</strong>): replication identifier column 4 (<strong>Oocysts</strong> or <strong>Sporozoites</strong>): response variable for the Experiment 1, the oocyst count<em> </em>on a level-scale for the Experiment 2, the sporozoite count on a log-scale: 0 (no sporozoites), 1 (1–10), 2 (11–100), 3 (101–1000), 4 (&gt;1000) columns 5 to 2155 (<strong>x350</strong> to <strong>x2500</strong>): NIRS absorbance measurements for wavelengths in the range 350 to 2500 nanometers