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 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Poisson distribution played a key role in experiments that had a historic role in the development of molecular biology. In particular, the ...