The number of male children among the first 12 children of family size 13 in 6115 families taken from the hospital records in the nineteenth century Saxony (Sokal & Rohlf(1994), Lindsey (1995), p. 59). The thirteenth child is ignored to assuage the effect of families non-randomly stopping when a desired gender is reached.
Format
A data frame with 2 columns and 13 rows.
No_of_MalesNo of Male children among first 12 children of family size 13
freqObserved frequencies for corresponding male children
Source
Extracted from
Borges, P., Rodrigues, J., Balakrishnan, N. and Bazan, J., 2014. A COM-Poisson type generalization of the binomial distribution and its properties and applications. Statistics & Probability Letters, 87, pp.158-166.
Available at: doi:10.1016/j.spl.2014.01.019
Examples
Male_Children$No_of_Males # extracting the binomial random variables
#> [1] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
sum(Male_Children$freq) # summing all the frequencies
#> [1] 6115