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In each person’s life, certain events occur randomly. The sexes of one’s future children are chance events. Probabilistic occurrences affect the size of one’s family. The sizes of future generations from a specific couple are random variables. We will investigate the problem of finding the probability of extinction of a male line of descent. After a brief introduction to the needed mathematical concepts, we will study problems of the following type: If a newly married couple decided to have children until they have one of each sex, what is an estimate of the size of their completed family?
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Keyfitz, N., Beekman, J.A. (1984). Stochastic Population Models. In: Demography Through Problems. Problem Books in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1843-0_6
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