poisson distribution in English
noun
1
a discrete frequency distribution that gives the probability of a number of independent events occurring in a fixed time.
In this he was the first to note that events with low frequency in a large population followed a Poisson distribution even when the probabilities of the events varied.
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1. The nth factorial moment of the Poisson distribution is λn.
2. If and in such a way that , then the Binomial distribution converges to the Poisson distribution with mean
3. Dbinom for the binomial (Bernoulli is a special case of the binomial), and dpois for the Poisson distribution
4. The times elapsed between Branchings in different neurites of single cells can be described by a Poisson distribution with a mean interval of approximately 2 h