The Poisson distribution

Pierre Jolicoeur
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Pierre Jolicoeur: University of Montreal, Department of Biological Science

Chapter Chapter 18 in Introduction to Biometry, 1999, pp 124-133 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Poisson distribution is a discontinuous distribution which was described by the French mathematician Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-2013;1840) in a book published in 1837. The Poisson distribution is a particular case of the binomial distribution (chapter 17) where the probability p becomes smaller and smaller (p → 0) while the exponent k becomes larger and larger (k → ∞) in such a way that their product, the mean, μ= kp, keeps a finite value (0

Keywords: Poisson Distribution; Binomial Distribution; Spatial Arrangement; Individual Organism; Dispersion Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4777-8_19

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