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  2. Boy or girl paradox - Wikipedia

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    In fact, as ε approaches 0, the total probability goes to ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠, which is the answer expected when one child is sampled (e.g. the oldest child is a boy) and is thus removed from the pool of possible children. In other words, as more and more details about the boy child are given (for instance: born on January 1), the chance that the ...

  3. Probability of superiority - Wikipedia

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    In other words, the correlation is the difference between the common language effect size and its complement. For example, if the common language effect size is 60%, then the rank-biserial r equals 60% minus 40%, or r = 0.20. The Kerby formula is directional, with positive values indicating that the results support the hypothesis.

  4. Ages of Three Children puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The problem can be presented in different ways, giving the same basic information: the product, that the sum is known, and that there is an oldest child (e.g. their ages adding up to today's date, [3] or the eldest being good at chess [4]).

  5. Firstborn - Wikipedia

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    When examining answers from organized studies, personality and attitude traits are repeated when comparing different children born into the same birth order. [2] These findings have been criticized. In specified cases, the firstborn child that was studied on was observed again as an adult and continued to demonstrate the identical traits as ...

  6. Higher-order statistics - Wikipedia

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    In statistical theory, one long-established approach to higher-order statistics, for univariate and multivariate distributions is through the use of cumulants and joint cumulants. [1] In time series analysis, the extension of these is to higher order spectra, for example the bispectrum and trispectrum.

  7. Method of moments (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, the method of moments is a method of estimation of population parameters. The same principle is used to derive higher moments like skewness and kurtosis. It starts by expressing the population moments (i.e., the expected values of powers of the random variable under consideration) as functions of the parameters of interest. Those ...

  8. Study finds the bigger the age gap, the more likely that the ...

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    The Bigger The Age Gap, The Greater The Risk Of Divorce

  9. History of statistics - Wikipedia

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    The relation between statistics and probability theory developed rather late, however. In the 19th century, statistics increasingly used probability theory, whose initial results were found in the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly in the analysis of games of chance (gambling).