Generating a sample
A hospital's planning department is investigating different treatments for newborns. As a data scientist you are hired to simulate the sex of 250 newborn children, and you are told that on average 50.50% are males.
This exercise is part of the course
Foundations of Probability in Python
Exercise instructions
- Import the
binomobject fromscipy.stats. - Generate a sample of 250 newborns with 50.50% probability of being male.
- Print the sample.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Import the binom object
from scipy.stats import ____
# Generate a sample of 250 newborn children
sample = ____.____(n=____, p=____, size=____, random_state=42)
# Show the sample values
print(____)