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Sex sequences of births in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

M. L Srivastava  and
Arun Kumar Sinha
M. L Srivastava
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Patna University, India
Arun Kumar Sinha
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Patna University, India
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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
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , July 1975 , pp. 233 - 241
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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