Poisson distribution

Noun

Meaning

a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large

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Synonyms

normal distribution binomial distribution Pareto distribution Cauchy distribution exponential distribution beta distribution hypergeometric distribution geometric distribution t-distribution gamma distribution Gumbel distribution Laplace distribution negative binomial distribution uniform distribution log-normal distribution
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Hypernyms

distribution statistical distribution

Examples

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

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

His significant publications include: * In 1909 - "The Theory of Probabilities and Telephone Conversations" - which proves that the Poisson distribution applies to random telephone traffic. Source: Internet

If the null hypothesis predicts (say) on average 9 counts per minute, then according to the Poisson distribution typical for radioactive decay there is about 41% chance of recording 10 or more counts. Source: Internet

In such cases, the observations are overdispersed with respect to a Poisson distribution, for which the mean is equal to the variance. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Poissant poissarde Poisson Poisson noise poisson point field poisson point process