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Definition of Sibships
1. sibship [n] - See also: sibship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sibships
Literary usage of Sibships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the American Statistical Association by American Statistical Association (1916)
"We infer, then, that a very small number of the sibships of the affected are
represented by more than one member in this particular institution. ..."
2. The Trend of the Race: A Study of Present Tendencies in the Biological by Samuel Jackson Holmes (1921)
"For if that be the case he can use the distribution of the sibships of the affected
as a norm in comparing with it the distribution of the affected, ..."
3. Statistics and Science: A Festschrift for Terry Speed by Darlene Renee Goldstein, T. P. Speed (2003)
"For sibships of size k, it is convenient to label paternally derived alleles at
the locus (1, 2) and maternally derived alleles (3,4). ..."
4. Mixture Models: Theory, Geometry, and Applications by Bruce G. Lindsay (1995)
"If p does vary, then we could associate with each couple a TABLE 2.1 Number of
male children in sibships of size 12 # Males Obs. Count Obs. vs. Fit Bin. ..."
5. Eugenic Laboratory Memoirs by Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics (1907)
"both series are : Health, Ability and Temper in adult cousins, and in sibships
of school children ; the following table gives the results for three classes ..."
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