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3.5. PRACTICE 813.5.17. Predict second borns with sisters. e model assumes that sex of first and secondbirths are independent. To check this assumption, focus now on second births that followedfemale first borns. Compare 10-thousand simulated counts of boys to only those secondbirths that followed girls. To do this correctly, you need to count the number of first bornswho were girls and simulate that many births, 10-thousand times. Compare the counts ofboys in your simulations to the actual observed count of boys following girls. How does themodel look in this light? Any guesses what is going on in these data?

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