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Sex sequences of births in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

M. L Srivastava
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Patna University, India
Arun Kumar Sinha
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Patna University, India

Summary

The data of Pakrasi & Halder (1971) have been further analysed. No evidence was found to refute the hypothesis that there is no correlation between the sex of consecutive births except in families of four or more.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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