Poisson-distribution
[pwah-sohn; French pwa-sawn] /pwɑˈsoʊn; French pwaˈsɔ̃/
noun, Statistics.
1.
a limiting form of the binomial probability distribution for small values of the probability of success and for large numbers of trials: particularly useful in industrial quality-control work and in radiation and bacteriological problems.
/ˈpwɑːsən/
noun
1.
(statistics) a distribution that represents the number of events occurring randomly in a fixed time at an average rate λ; symbol P0(λ). For large n and small p with np = λ it approximates to the binomial distribution Bi(n,p)
Poisson distribution
(pwä-sôɴ’)
A probability distribution which arises when counting the number of occurrences of a rare event in a long series of trials. It is named after its discoverer, French mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840).
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