Poisson distribution is a special case of the Binomial

Posted by lordgrenville on Sunday November 29, 2020 @07:16AM
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Re:Poisson distribution is a special case of the Binomial by bsmith89 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @04:09PM (#25248112)

Is the more accurate statement "The Poisson distribution is the limit of the Binomial as n goes to infinity" not a better summary?

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Re:Poisson distribution is a special case of the Binomial by bluepoint on Sunday November 29, 2020 @06:43PM (#25249206)

Maybe even better: it is the limit of the binomial distribution as the n goes to infinity with n * p constant, where p is the probability of success.

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Re:Poisson distribution is a special case of the Binomial by iamcreasy on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:40AM (#25251264)

There is a dedicated wiki[1] page for relationship among probability distributions for anybody interested.

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