On a Model for Estimating the Parameter of the Human Reproductive Process

Attempt has been made in this paper to estimate certain parameters (data pertaining to which are either not available or easily reportable) of the human reproductive process as the period of postpartum ammenorrhoea (P.P.A.), number of foetal wastages in between live births etc., using a truncated negative binomial probability model. In view of the hypothesis that the probability of foetal wastages varies from mother to mother, the truncated negative binomial distribution has been compounded by weighing with the best prior Beta distribution of the parameter. Estimation has been made by successive approximation using the method of moments.