Posted: August 9th, 2015

Statistics

five males with a particular genetic disorder have one child each. The random variable x is the number of children among the five inherit the genetic disorder. Determine whether the table describes a probability distribution. If it does, find the mean and standard deviation.

X. 1-5

p(x) 0.2707

0.4043

0.24150

0.0721

0.0108

0.0006