Poisson distribution
a distribution modeling rare events over fixed intervals
Poisson distribution in a sentence
“The number of calls per hour follows a Poisson distribution.”
Origin of Poisson distribution
Named after Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician (1781-1840)
Related Words
exponential
a distribution modeling time between events in a Poisson process
uniform
a distribution where all outcomes are equally likely
skewness
a measure of asymmetry in a probability distribution
kurtosis
a measure of the 'tailedness' of a probability distribution
multivariate
involving two or more random variables
percentile
the value below which a given percentage of observations fall