Poisson

Noun

Meaning

Poisson (plural Poissons)

(mathematics) The Poisson distribution.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

caviar groundfish pisciculture

Phrases with the word

poisson point field poisson point process poisson random measure poisson random point field poisson rouge

Anagrams

poisons spinoso sponsio

Examples

One man's fish is another man's poisson. Mark Gatiss

Arago later noted that the diffraction bright spot (which later became known as both the Arago spot and the Poisson spot) had already been observed by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle and Giacomo F. Maraldi citation a century earlier. Source: Internet

For example, one talks about "a Poisson distribution with mean value λ". Source: Internet

For occurrences of “contagious” discrete events, like tornado outbreaks, the Polya distributions can be used to give more accurate models than the Poisson distribution by allowing the mean and variance to be different, unlike the Poisson. Source: Internet

Fresnel's theory could not be true, Poisson declared, surely this result was absurd. Source: Internet

Hence a Poisson distribution is not an appropriate model. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

poisony Poissant poissarde Poisson distribution Poisson noise poisson point field