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Book of the day: My brilliant friend — Elena Ferrante’s powerful portrait of friendship, ambition, and post-war Italy
A couple decides to keep having children until they have the same number of boys and girls, and then stop. Assume they never have twins, that the "trials" are independent with probability...
The net effect is that even if I don't know which one is definitely a boy, the other child can only be a girl or a boy and that is always and only a 1/2 probability (ignoring any biological weighting that girls may represent 51% of births or whatever the reality is).
Probability of having 2 girls and probability of having at least one girl Ask Question Asked 8 years, 8 months ago Modified 8 years, 8 months ago
Probability of having 2 girls and probability of having at least one girl
Use standard type for Greek letters, subscripts and superscripts that function as identifiers (i.e., are not variables, as in the subscript “girls” in the example that follows), and abbreviations that are not variables (e.g., log, GLM, WLS). Use bold type for symbols for vectors and matrices. Use italic type for all other statistical symbols.
Considering the population of girls with tastes disorders, I do a binomial test with number of success k = 7, number of trials n = 8, and probability of success p = 0.5, to test my null hypothesis H0 = "my cake tastes good for no more than 50% of the population of girls with taste disorders". In python I can run binomtest(7, 8, 0.5, alternative="greater") which gives the following result ...