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The Poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution. It gives the probability of a certain number of events occurring during a fixed interval. This web calculator allows users to specify ...

You will be asked for complete, precise definitions of about four of the following terms, including context (e.g., what kind of thing can have a Poisson distribution?). Definitions should be complete ...

The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique Let Xi be the number of outcomes in class Ci,i=0,... ,k, during n independent possibly non-identical trials. If class C0 has ...