A statistical method developed by the 18th century French mathematician S. D. Poisson, which is used for predicting the probable distribution of a series of events. For example, when the average ...
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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A rapid approximate test based on the range is presented as an alternative to the usual index of dispersion method for examining small samples ...
For binomial and Poisson distributions, the scale parameter has a value of 1. The variance of Y is for the binomial distribution and for the Poisson distribution. Overdispersion occurs when the ...
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 ...
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 ...