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Re:Practical and robust anomaly detection in time series by joeyo on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @04:58AM (#8849667) 

  > but this test has a Gaussian assumption, not a Poisson assumption.
In practice the Gaussian assumption might not be too badly abused (at least for Twitter) since the Poisson distribution approaches the Gaussian when lambda is large.
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