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Following the tradition of the problem, suppose that in the population of two-child families, the sex of the two children is independent of one another, equally likely boy or girl, and that the birth date of each child is independent of the other child. The chance of being born on any given day of the week is 1 / 7 .
Conditional independence depends on the nature of the third event. If you roll two dice, one may assume that the two dice behave independently of each other. Looking at the results of one die will not tell you about the result of the second die. (That is, the two dice are independent.)
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If the parents of an individual are not inbred themselves, the coefficient of inbreeding of the individual is one-half the coefficient of relationship between the parents. This can be verified in the previous example, as 12.5% is one-half of 25%, the coefficient of relationship between an uncle and a niece.
Odds of having identical quadruplets are about one in 15 million — which makes Mercedes and Jonathan Sandhu, and their four identical daughters, very special. Texas couple welcomes identical ...
This one's for the dog-lovers. An Irish wolfhound has given birth to the first documented set of identical twin puppies. Kurt de Cramer, a vet in South Africa, delivered the babies via cesarean ...
Independent: Each outcome of the die roll will not affect the next one, which means the 10 variables are independent from each other. Identically distributed: Regardless of whether the die is fair or weighted, each roll will have the same probability of seeing each result as every other roll. In contrast, rolling 10 different dice, some of ...
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