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PoissonDistribution
PoissonDistribution
[
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represents a Poisson distribution with mean
.
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The probability for integer value
x
in a Poisson distribution is
for
.
»
PoissonDistribution
allows
to be any positive real number.
PoissonDistribution
can be used with such functions as
Mean
,
CDF
and
RandomInteger
.
»
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The mean and variance of a Poisson distribution are the same:
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Probability density function:
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BinomialDistribution
GammaDistribution
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