A distribution function used to describe the occurrence of rare events or to describe the sampling distribution of isolated counts in a continuum of time or space.

Synonyms: Distribution, Poisson, Poisson Distribution

Instance information

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90; was see PROBABILITY 1979-89; was see under PROBABILITY 1969-78 ,use PROBABILITY to search POISSON DISTRIBUTION 1969-89 ,usually NIM

identifier

D016012