PoissonDistribution Class

Represents a Poisson distribution.

For a list of all members of this type, see PoissonDistribution Members.

System.Object
   Distribution
      DiscreteDistribution
         PoissonDistribution

[Visual Basic]
Public Class PoissonDistribution

Inherits DiscreteDistribution

[C#]

public class PoissonDistribution : DiscreteDistribution

Remarks

The Poisson distribution models the number of occurrances of an event where each event has a constant probability of occurring. It is closely related to the exponential distribution, which models the time between successive occurrances.

The Poisson distribution has one parameter: the mean number of occurrances per unit time.

Example

The number of cars passing a road that is not too busy follows a Poisson distribution..

The number of failures of a piece of equipment that is replaced with identical copies when it fails follows a Poisson distribution.

Requirements

Namespace: Extreme.Statistics.Distributions

Assembly: Extreme.Statistics (in Extreme.Statistics.dll)

PoissonDistribution Class

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