Probability and Discrete Distributions · Statistics

Poisson Distribution

Modeling the number of events occurring within a fixed interval of time or space.

Key Questions

  1. 1Why is the Poisson distribution used for modeling rare events?
  2. 2How does the Poisson distribution serve as an approximation to the Binomial distribution?
  3. 3What does the equality of mean and variance imply about Poisson processes?

MOE Syllabus Outcomes

MOE: Probability Distributions - JC2
Level: JC 2
Subject: Mathematics
Unit: Probability and Discrete Distributions
Period: Statistics

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