The distribution of number of births
Shah, K.S.
Janasamkhya 8(1): 81-88
1990
PMID: 12285536 Document Number: 378503
"In this note a probability model for the number of births during a given marital duration of a woman is derived assuming the risk of conception to follow a gamma distribution." The model is applied to recent data for India.
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