Example: biology
Chapter 4 The Poisson Distribution

Chapter 4 The Poisson Distribution

Back to document page

The binomial distribution is appropriate for counting successes in n i.i.d. trials. For p small and n large, the binomial can be well approximated by the Poisson. Thus, it is not too surprising to learn that the Poisson is also a model for counting successes. Consider a process evolving in time in which at ‘random times’ successes occur ...

  Distribution, Evolving, Poisson, Poisson distribution

Download Chapter 4 The Poisson Distribution


Information

Domain:

Source:

Link to this page:

Please notify us if you found a problem with this document:

Other abuse

Advertisement

Related search queries