poisson distribution

1. 1.

   a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large

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   statistics

Questions about poisson distribution

What does poisson distribution mean?

poisson distribution means "a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large".

Is poisson distribution a common word?

poisson distribution is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.