Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences
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Author: Jay L. Devore
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Chapter 14.2, Problem 13E
A study of sterility in the fruit fly (“Hybrid Dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster: The Biology of Female and Male Sterility,” Genetics, 1979: 161–174) reports the following data on the number of ovaries developed by each female fly in a sample of size 1388. One model for unilateral sterility states that each ovary develops with some probability p independently of the other ovary. Test the fit of this model using X2.
x = Number of Ovaries Developed | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Observed Count | 1212 | 118 | 58 |
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