Poisson Probability Distribution

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Description

The Poisson distribution has the following characteristics:

It describes the number of times some event occurs during a specified interval.

The probability of a "success" is proportional to the length of the interval.

Nonoverlapping intervals are independent

It is a limiting form of the binomial distribution when n is large and Pi is small.

Concept Prerequisite

Wikipedia Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson Probability Distribution

Learning Material

Covered in Topic(s)

 
Random Variables and Probability Distributions (Discrete and Continuous)