Question

Determine the marginal distribution of Gender. In paragraph form, how you calculated the marginal distribution. Include your calculations in your explanation.

Answer 1

The marginal distribution for gender tells you the probability that a randomly selected person taken from this sample is either male or female, regardless of their blood type.

In this case, we have total sample size of 714 people. Of these, 379 are male and 335 are female. Then the marginal probability mass function would be

$\mathrm{Pr}[G = g] = \begin{cases} \dfrac{379}{714} \approx 0.5308 & \text{if }g = \text{male} \\\\ \dfrac{335}{714} \approx 0.4692 & \text{if } g = \text{female} \\\\ 0 & \text{otherwise} \end{cases}$

where G is a random variable taking on one of two values (male or female).