The Detection of a Correlation between the Sexes of Adjacent Sibs in Human Families
作者:
RichardA. Greenberg,
Colin White,
期刊:
Journal of the American Statistical Association
(Taylor Available online 1965)
卷期:
Volume 60,
issue 312
页码: 1035-1045
ISSN:0162-1459
年代: 1965
DOI:10.1080/01621459.1965.10480848
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
A model is described which leads to an analysis of data on the sequence of sexes in human families, particular attention being given to the detection of a correlation between the sexes of adjacent sibs. Three sources of potential confounding with this correlation are discussed. The method of analysis avoids any confounding with the effects of voluntary limitation of family size, or with the effects of variation in the probability of a male from birth to birth within a family. It is more difficult to separate the effect of correlation between the sexes of adjacent sibs from the effect of variation between families in the probability that a child born to the family will be male. The problem was solved in the present investigation by using an auxiliary analysis to show that families did not, in fact, differ in this probability. If this were not so, a separation of the two factors could still have been made by an additional analysis referred to in the paper.
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