The Poisson, the negative exponential, and the rectangular distributions

C. Mack
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C. Mack: Institute of Technology, Applied Mathematics

Chapter 10 in Essentials of Statistics for Scientists and Technologists, 1966, pp 89-94 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract These involve events which occur at random, with a certain probability. For example, cosmic ray particles arrive at random (at least to a very good approximation); if we know that, on the average, 10 particles arrive in a minute, then the number that arrive in any given hour will not necessarily be 10 × 60 = 600. So the probability distribution of the arrival of other numbers, e.g. 610 or 579, is of considerable importance.

Date: 1966
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-8615-9_10

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