Poisson Distribution

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Poisson Distribution

In statistics, a distribution representing the probability of a random event that occurs at regular intervals on average. Each event occurs independently of every other one.

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(In the Poisson distribution tables, m is the mean value for the given grouping.)

Atlantic basin tropical cyclone activity during the weather satellite era (1960-2014) in relation to first storm day, length of season, ONI, and AMO

For the Poisson distribution the interest is in a random variable, X, that represents the number of occurrences of an event within a fixed time.

Exponential problems in business courses: The translation of time units

The truncated Poisson distribution on the given range [0, [n.sub.i]] is obtained by normalising the Poisson distribution, as follows:

Multi-objective buffer space allocation with the cross-entropy method

gamma or Poisson distribution, with a choice of three link functions:

Understanding statistics using computer demonstrations

Whenever the assumption of Poisson distribution does not hold, statisticians tend to adopt alternative models to strengthen the quality control process.

Stochastic models of quality control on test misgrading

57-60) addressed a problem that recurs in studies of spatial distributions of plants: How to calculate a random expected distribution, in the manner of a Poisson distribution, when the plants are large and take up nonnegligible fractions of the quadrats employed in their study.

A variant of the hypergeometric distribution for large or territorial organisms

Sampling from the poisson distribution on a computer, Computing 17, 1976, 147-156.

Binomial random variate generation

The model structure can be based on a normal, gamma or Poisson distribution, with a choice of three link functions: the identity, logarithm and reciprocal link functions.