2.1.10 Do men have more sisters than women have? In a certain society, all married couples use...
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2.1.10 Do men have more sisters than women have? In a certain society, all married couples use the following strategy to determine the number of children that they will have: If the first child is a girl, they have no more children. If the first child is a boy, they have a second child. If the second child is a girl, they have no more children. If the second child is a boy, they have exactly one additional child. (We ignore twins, assume sexes are equally likely, and the sex of distinct children are independent random variables, etc.)
(a) What is the probability distribution for the number of children in a family?
(b) What is the probability distribution for the number of girl children in a family?
(c) A male child is chosen at random from all of the male children in the population. What is the probability distribution for the number of sisters of this child? What is the probability distribution for the number of his brothers?
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An Introduction To Stochastic Modeling
ISBN: 9780233814162
4th Edition
Authors: Mark A. Pinsky, Samuel Karlin