Category:Poisson Distribution

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This category contains results about the Poisson distribution.
Definitions specific to this category can be found in Definitions/Poisson Distribution.

Let $X$ be a discrete random variable on a probability space $\struct {\Omega, \Sigma, \Pr}$.


Then $X$ has the Poisson distribution with parameter $\lambda$ (where $\lambda > 0$) if and only if:

$\Img X = \set {0, 1, 2, \ldots} = \N$
$\map \Pr {X = k} = \dfrac 1 {k!} \lambda^k e^{-\lambda}$


It is written:

$X \sim \Poisson \lambda$