Some Applications of the Family of Discrete Exponential Distributions in Biology and Toxicology
Konanur G. Janardan, David J. Schaeffer · Biometrical Journal · 1983
In this paper the relationship between the number of males and females in a community, between the number of boys and girls in a family, between the number of animals trapped and untrapped in an animal experiment, between the number of infected and uninfected in an epidemiological study, between the number of mutagens and non‐mutagens in a given sample of toxicological experiments, and others, is studied. The general expression for the correlation coefficient, ϱ, is obtained when N, the community size N, has a discrete exponential family distribution recently studied by Janardan (1980). This is then specialized to some well known discrete distributions.