Difference between revisions of "Poisson distribution"

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Poisson distribution

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-The poison distribution is used when the probability of 'success' is very small and there are a large number of events.
+Poisson distribution
-<math>P\left( x \right) = \huge \frac</math>{{e^{ - \lambda } \lambda ^x }}{{x!}}<math></math>
-Examples of a poison distribution:
-* number of cars passing a certain point
-* number of spelling mistakes per page
-* number of phone calls per minute in a calling centre
-* number of times a website is accessed per minute
-* number of stars in a give volume of space
-Try out at Try out a bit with /static/files/MBI/Module%207/poisson.xlsx
-Part of: [[M7-Quantitative Decision Methods-S2 - Probability distributions|M7-Quantitative Decision Methods-S2 - Probability distributions]]
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