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The Poisson distribution can also be used for the number of events in other specified intervals such as... The Poisson distribution can be derived as a limiting case of the... The Poisson distribution can be applied to systems with a large number of possible events... The Poisson distribution is sometimes called a Poissonian... The Poisson distribution can be derived as a limiting case to the... is a rule of thumb stating that the Poisson distribution is a good approximation of the binomial distribution if n is at least 20 and... The Poisson distribution arises in connection with... approaches the Poisson distribution with expected value... by which to approximate random variables using the Poisson distribution rather than the more... a busy switchboard in one hour follows a Poisson distribution with the events appearing frequent to the operator... also follows a Poisson distribution whose parameter is the sum of the component parameters... of the Poisson distribution with expected value... of the Poisson distribution are equal to the expected value... the Poisson distribution is sometimes called the... Some historians of mathematics have argued that the Poisson distribution should have been called the Bortkiewicz distribution... the Poisson distribution is the probability distribution of the number of events that would occur within a preset...

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